Observation of conductance quantization of ballistic metallic point contacts at room temperature

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1042-1045

  Gai, Zheng ^a   He, Yi ^a   Yu, Hongbin ^a   Yang, W ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 0000469222     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.53.1042     Document Type: Article

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