Interaction of spin and vibrations in transport through single-molecule magnets

• Falk May,
• Maarten R. Wegewijs and
• Walter Hofstetter

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 693–698, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.75

• Grünberg Institut and JARA - Fundamentals of Information Technology, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany 10.3762/bjnano.2.75 Abstract We study electron transport through a single-molecule magnet (SMM) and the interplay of its anisotropic spin with quantized vibrational distortions of the

Transport through molecular junctions

• Jan M. van Ruitenbeek

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 691–692, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.74

• the problem and inherent to (single) molecular junctions. The study of such junctions requires the gathering of statistics covering many configurations. The field of study of electron transport through molecular junctions requires input from many subdisciplines and this interdisciplinary character

Simple theoretical analysis of the photoemission from quantum confined effective mass superlattices of optoelectronic materials

• Debashis De,
• Sitangshu Bhattacharya,
• S. M. Adhikari,
• A. Kumar,
• P. K. Bose and
• K. P. Ghatak

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 339–362, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.40

• effective mass when it is energy dependent. Under degenerate conditions, only the electrons at the Fermi surface of n-type semiconductors participate in the conduction process and hence, the effective momentum mass of the electrons (EMM), corresponding to the Fermi level, would be of interest in electron

• transport under such conditions. The Fermi energy is again determined by the carrier energy spectrum and the carrier concentration and therefore, these two features would determine the dependence of the EMM in degenerate materials on the degree of carrier degeneracy. In recent years, the EMM in such