Statistical Analysis of Electronic Transport Through Chemisorbed Versus Physisorbed Alkanethiol Self-Assembled Monolayers

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 140-144

  Kim, Tae Wook ^a   Wang, Gunuk ^a   Lee, Takhee ^a  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Electronic transport; molecular electronics; selfassembled monolayer

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008024895     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: 19410085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2008.931775     Document Type: Article

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