title: Conductance calculations for real systems on the nanoscale.
abstract: Electron transport across molecular junctions is a rapidly growing topic at the borderline between physics and chemistry. We review calculations which were done in the Landauer transport formalism for monovalent systems, ranging from clusters to fullerenes. A realistic description of molecular conductance can be achieved by a density functional based approach to the calculation of the electronic transport properties.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Theoretical Physics, Dresden University of Technology, 01062 Dresden, Germany. frank@physik.tu-dresden.de
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Grossmann
authors.forename: Rafael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gutiérrez
authors.forename: Rüdiger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schmidt