Electroluminescence of a polythiophene molecular wire suspended between a metallic surface and the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Reecht, Gaël ^a   Scheurer, Fabrice ^a   Speisser, Virginie ^a   Dappe, Yannick J ^b   Mathevet, Fabrice ^c   Schull, Guillaume ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b SERVICE DE PHYSIQUE DE L ETAT CONDENSÉ   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

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EID: 84894426278     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.047403     Document Type: Article

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