Journal
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 131, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3182849
Keywords
Fermi level; molecular electronics; polynomials
Funding
- Royal Society/Wolfson schem
- University of Sheffield
- NSERC
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Conditions for transmission of a pi-conjugated molecular conductor are derived within the source and sink potential approach in terms of numbers of nonbonding levels of four graphs: The molecular graph G and the three vertex-deleted subgraphs obtained by removing one or both contact vertices. For all bipartite and most nonbipartite G, counting nonbonding levels gives a simple necessary and sufficient condition for conduction at the Fermi level. The exceptional case is where G is nonbipartite and all four graphs have the same number of nonbonding levels; then, an auxiliary requirement involving tail coefficients of the four characteristic polynomials must also be checked.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available