Charge transport in azobenzene-based single-molecule junctions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 22, 2012, Pages

  Kim, Youngsang ^a,d   Garcia Lekue, Aran ^b,c   Sysoiev, Dmytro ^a   Frederiksen, Thomas ^b,c   Groth, Ulrich ^a   Scheer, Elke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

^c BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AU ELECTRODES; BREAK JUNCTIONS; CIS ISOMERS; CIS-TRANS; CURRENT VOLTAGE; ELECTRON TRANSMISSION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; INELASTIC ELECTRON TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DEVICE; QUALITATIVE STUDY; SINGLE-MOLECULE; SINGLE-MOLECULE JUNCTIONS; VISIBLE-LIGHT IRRADIATION;

CALCULATIONS; ISOMERS;

MOLECULES;

EID: 84870399432     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.226801     Document Type: Article

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