Charge transport across insulating self-Assembled monolayers: Non-equilibrium approaches and modeling to relate current and molecular structure

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 12428-12436

  Mirjani, Fatemeh ^a   Thijssen, Joseph M ^b   Whitesides, George M ^c,d   Ratner, Mark A ^e  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

charge transport; current density; hole tunneling; molecular electronics; molecular structure; self Assembled monolayers

Indexed keywords

CARRIER TRANSPORT; CHARGE TRANSFER; CURRENT DENSITY; INSULATION; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS;

CARBON CHAINS; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; HOLE TUNNELING; NON EQUILIBRIUM; QUANTUM METHODS; THIOL GROUPS; TIGHT BINDING;

HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES;

EID: 84919725472     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn505115a     Document Type: Article

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