Conductance calculations for real systems on the nanoscale.
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.
Grossmann
Frank
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Institute for Theoretical Physics, Dresden University of Technology, 01062 Dresden, Germany. frank@physik.tu-dresden.de
Gutiérrez
Rafael
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Schmidt
Rüdiger
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