Mechanism of the enhanced conductance of a molecular junction under tensile stress

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Saffarzadeh, Alireza ^a,b   Demir, Firuz ^b   Kirczenow, George ^b  

^a PAYAME NOOR UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 84894570927     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.045431     Document Type: Article

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