Nanoscopic tunneling contacts on mesoscopic multiprobe conductors

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 56, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 13026-13034

  Gramespacher, Thomas ^a   Büttiker, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0000289926     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.56.13026     Document Type: Article

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