Understanding the Metal-Molecule Interface from First Principles

The Molecule-Metal Interface

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 51-89

  Kronik, Leeor ^a   Morikawa, Yoshitada ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Density functional theory; Electronic structure theory; Interface dipole

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887244738     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527653171.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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