Impact of collective electrostatic effects on charge transport through molecular monolayers

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 38, 2014, Pages 22395-22401

  Obersteiner, Veronika ^a   Egger, David A ^a,b   Heimel, Georg ^c   Zojer, Egbert ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER TRANSPORT; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; ELECTROSTATICS; MOLECULES; MONOLAYERS;

CHARGE TRANSPORT THROUGH MOLECULES; DIPOLAR EFFECTS; ELECTRONIC LEVELS; ELECTROSTATIC EFFECT; MOLECULAR MONOLAYER; PACKING DENSITY; TRANSPORT CHARACTERISTICS; UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84907478527     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5084955     Document Type: Article

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