Electrochemical capacitance of a leaky nanocapacitor

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 16730-16740

  Guo, Hong ^b   Wang, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0001754222     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.60.16730     Document Type: Article

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