Conductance eigenchannels in nanocontacts

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 56, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 14956-14959

  Brandbyge, Mads ^a   Sørensen, Mads R ^a   Jacobsen, Karsten W ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

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EID: 0001289066     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.56.14956     Document Type: Article

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