Incoherent electron-phonon scattering in octanethiols

Nano Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2109-2114

  Pecchia, Alessandro ^a   Carlo, Aldo Di ^a   Gagliardi, Alessio ^b   Sanna, Simone ^b   Frauenheim, Thomas ^b   Gutierrez, Rafael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; GOLD; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HAMILTONIANS; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; PHONONS;

ELECTRON-PHONON SCATTERING; GOLD CONTACTS; MOLECULAR WIRES; OCTANETHIOLS;

ELECTRON SCATTERING;

EID: 9644304527     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl048841h     Document Type: Article

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