Evidence for saturation of channel transmission from conductance fluctuations in atomic-size point contacts

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1530-1533

  Ludoph, B ^a   Devoret, M H ^b   Esteve, D ^b   Urbina, C ^b   Ruitenbeek, J M Van ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SERVICE DE PHYSIQUE DE L ETAT CONDENSÉ   (France)

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EID: 0000030844     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.1530     Document Type: Article

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