Novel structures and properties of gold nanowires

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 2046-2049

  Wang, Baolin ^a   Yin, Shuangye ^a   Wang, Guanghou ^a   Buldum, Alper ^b   Zhao, Jijun ^a,b,c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GOLD; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

GOLD NANOWIRES; WIRE STRUCTURE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0010442567     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.2046     Document Type: Article

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