Conductance step for a single-atom contact in the scanning tunneling microscope: Noble and transition metals

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 16086-16090

  Sirvent, C ^a   Rodrigo, J ^a   Vieira, S ^a   Jurczyszyn, L ^a   Mingo, N ^a   Flores, F ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NICOLÁS CABRERA   (Spain)

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EID: 0001288848     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.53.16086     Document Type: Article

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