Current-driven conformational changes, charging, and negative differential resistance in molecular wires
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Current-Driven Conformational Changes, Charging and Negative Differential Resistance in Molecular Wires
We introduce a theoretical approach based on scattering theory and total energy methods that treats transport non-linearities, conformational changes and charging effects in molecular wires in a unified way. We apply this approach to molecular wires consisting of chain molecules with different electronic and structural properties bonded to metal contacts. We show that non-linear transport in al...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review B
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0163-1829,1095-3795
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.64.125318