Observation of shell structure in sodium nanowires

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6740, 1999, Pages 144-146

  Yanson, A I ^a   Yanson, I K ^a,b   Van Rultenbeek, J M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b B VERKIN INSTITUTE FOR LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI METAL; SODIUM;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; HISTOGRAM; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0033536216     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/22074     Document Type: Article

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