Shape effects on conductance quantization in three-dimensional nanowires: Hard versus soft potentials

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1065-1068

  Bogachek, E ^a   Scherbakov, A ^a   Landman, Uzi ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0000579593     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.56.1065     Document Type: Article

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