Development of an energy barrier at the metal-chain–metallic-carbon-nanotube nanocontact

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 6074-6079

  Kong, Kijeong ^a   Han, Seungwu ^a   Ihm, Jisoon ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

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EID: 0001253844     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.60.6074     Document Type: Article

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