Thermopower of atomic-size metallic contacts

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 12290-12293

  Ludoph, B ^a   Ruitenbeek, J M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0000971624     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.12290     Document Type: Article

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