Direct optical determination of interfacial transport barriers in molecular tunnel junctions

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 135, Issue 26, 2013, Pages 9584-9587

  Fereiro, Jerry A ^a   McCreery, Richard L ^a,b   Bergren, Adam Johan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT MEASUREMENT; ENERGY THRESHOLDS; INTERFACIAL TRANSPORT; INTERNAL PHOTOEMISSION; MOLECULAR ABSORPTION; OPTICAL DETERMINATION; ORGANIC COMPONENTS; PHOTOCURRENT SPECTRUM;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CHEMISTRY;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; ENERGY; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; MOLECULE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84879773891     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja403123a     Document Type: Article

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