Electronic transport properties of single-molecule junctions have been widely measured by
several techniques, including mechanically controllable break junctions, electromigration …

Quantum effects in novel functional materials and new device concepts represent a potential
breakthrough for the development of new information processing technologies based on …

Spintronics is one of the emerging research fields in nanotechnology and has been growing
very rapidly. Studies of spintronics were started after the discovery of giant …

We describe an ab initio method for calculating the electronic structure, electronic transport,
and forces acting on the atoms, for atomic scale systems connected to semi-infinite …

Regarding the activation of chemical reactions, today's chemist is used to thinking in terms of
thermochemistry, electrochemistry, and photochemistry, which is reflected in the …

Using remarkably simple experimental techniques it is possible to gently break a metallic
contact and thus form conducting nanowires. During the last stages of the pulling a neck …

As the scale of microelectronic engineering continues to shrink, interest has focused on the
nature of electron transport through essentially one-dimensional nanometre-scale channels …

The continuing miniaturization of microelectronics raises the prospect of nanometre-scale
devices with mechanical and electrical properties that are qualitatively different from those at …

THE properties and potential applications of carbon nanotubes filled with other materials
have aroused much speculation1–5. Strategies for filling nanotubes include in situ growth in …

Fabrication of structures at the atomic scale is now possible using state-of-the-art techniques
for manipulating individual atoms, and it may become possible to design electrical circuits …