Spontaneous breaking of nanowires between a STM tip and the Pb(110) surface

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 2185-2190

  Gai, Zheng ^a   Li, Xiaowei ^a   Gao, Bo ^a   Zhao, R ^a   Yang, W ^a   Frenken, J ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0012267815     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.58.2185     Document Type: Article

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