Shifting the Voltage Drop in Electron Transport Through a Single Molecule

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Karan, Sujoy ^a   Jacob, David ^b   Karolak, Michael ^c   Hamann, Christian ^a   Wang, Yongfeng ^a   Weismann, Alexander ^a   Lichtenstein, Alexander I ^d   Berndt, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; MOLECULES; TEMPERATURE;

DIFFERENTIAL CONDUCTANCES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIALS; GEOMETRIC RELAXATION; LOW-TEMPERATURE SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES; MANY-BODY CALCULATIONS; SINGLE MOLECULE; UNDERSCREENED KONDO EFFECT;

MANGANESE;

EID: 84937824935     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.016802     Document Type: Article

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