Quantized conductance through individual rows of suspended gold atoms

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6704, 1998, Pages 780-783

  Ohnishi, Hideaki ^a   Kondo, Yukihito ^a   Takayanagi, Kunio ^a,b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VACUUM ASPIRATION;

EID: 0032558717     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/27399     Document Type: Article

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