Conduction and mechanical properties of atomic scale gold contacts

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 75, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 3132-3134

  Jarvis, S P ^a   Lantz, M A ^a   Ogiso, H ^b   Tokumoto, H ^b   Durig U ^c  

^a JT RES CENTER FOR ATOM TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATL INST FOR ADV INTERDISC RES   (Japan)

^c IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0001093401     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.125254     Document Type: Article

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