Conductance of molecular junctions formed with silver electrodes

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3358-3364

  Kim, Taekyeong ^a   Vázquez, Héctor ^a,c   Hybertsen, Mark S ^b   Venkataraman, Latha ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ag molecular junctions; density functional theory; oligophenyls; Single molecule electronics; tunneling decay

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTANCE MEASUREMENT; FORMATION AND EVOLUTIONS; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; JUNCTION STRUCTURE; OLIGOPHENYLS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES; SINGLE-MOLECULE ELECTRONICS; SINGLE-MOLECULE JUNCTIONS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRODES; MOLECULES;

SILVER;

BIOPOLYMER; METAL NANOPARTICLE; SILVER;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDUCTOMETRY; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MICROELECTRODE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIOPOLYMERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CONDUCTOMETRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROELECTRODES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SILVER;

EID: 84880165763     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl401654s     Document Type: Article

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