Fractional Conductance Quantization in Metallic Nanoconstrictions under Electrochemical Potential Control

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 22, 2000, Pages 5196-5199

  Shu, C ^a   Li, C Z ^a   He, H X ^a   Bogozi, A ^a   Bunch, J S ^a   Tao, N J ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000240255     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5196     Document Type: Article

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