Tuning rectification in single-molecular diodes

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6233-6237

  Batra, Arunabh ^a   Darancet, Pierre ^a,c   Chen, Qishui ^b   Meisner, Jeffrey S ^b   Widawsky, Jonathan R ^a   Neaton, Jeffrey B ^c   Nuckolls, Colin ^b   Venkataraman, Latha ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

density functional theory; gold carbon covalent bonds; Molecular diode; single molecule rectifier

Indexed keywords

CURRENT-VOLTAGE MEASUREMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; MOLECULAR DIODES; MOLECULAR ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS; NONEQUILIBRIUM TRANSPORT; RECTIFICATION RATIO; SINGLE-MOLECULE; SINGLE-MOLECULE DEVICES;

CARBON; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIODES; GOLD; MOLECULES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

GOLD; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONICS; GOLD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SILICON;

EID: 84890408854     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl403698m     Document Type: Article

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