Conductance through Atoms: Dot or Channel?

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers and Short Notes and Review Papers

Volumn 38, Issue 1 B, 1999, Pages 336-338

  Kobayashi, Nobuhiko ^a,b   Brandbyge, Mads ^a   Tsukada, Masaru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aatom wire; Aluminum.; Conductance quantization; Eigenchannels; Electron transport; First principles electronic states theory; Recursion transfer matrix method

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ATOMS; BAND STRUCTURE; CURRENT DENSITY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRON TUBE COMPONENTS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ATOM WIRES; FIRST PRINCIPLES ELECTRONIC STATES THEORY; RECURSION TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES;

EID: 0032614301     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.38.336     Document Type: Article

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