Tailoring thermopower of single-molecular junctions by temperature-induced surface reconstruction

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Hsu, Bailey C ^a   Lin, Chiung Yuan ^a   Hsieh, Yau Shian ^a   Chen, Yu Chang ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR THEORETICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CU(1 1 1); SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES; TEMPERATURE-INDUCED;

CALCULATIONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SEEBECK COEFFICIENT; THERMOELECTRIC POWER;

SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 84871312013     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4769814     Document Type: Article

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