Admittance of Atomic and Molecular Junctions and Their Signal Transmission
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Calculations of Contact Admittance
2.1. Microscopic Calculations
2.2. Classical Radio-Controlled (RC) Model
2.3. Single-Level Model
2.4. Mesoscopic Capacitor Model
2.5. Theoretical Estimation of the Admittance of Atom-Sized Contacts
3. Experiments on the Admittance of Atom-Sized Contacts of Metals
3.1. Experiments under Alternating Current (AC) or Time-Varying Biases
3.2. Radio Frequency (RF) Signal Transmission through Atom-Sized Contacts
4. Admittance of Molecular Junctions
5. Conclusions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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