title: Vibrational inelastic scattering effects in molecular electronics.
abstract: We describe how to treat the interaction of traveling electrons with localized vibrational modes in nanojunctions. We present a multichannel scattering technique, which can be applied to calculate the transport properties for realistic systems, and we show how it is related to other methods that are useful in particular cases. We apply our technique to describe recent experiments on the conductance through molecular junctions.
authors.affiliation: Division des Sciences de la Matière, Département de Recherche sur l'Etat Condensé, les Atomes et les Molécules, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique-Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France. ness@dsm-mail.saclay.cea.fr
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ness
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Fisher
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004548:Elasticity; D004581:Electronics; D008958:Models, Molecular; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D013816:Thermodynamics; D014732:Vibration