Quantum transport in an atom-sized bridge between a metal surface and a tip of a scanning tunneling microscope at finite temperatures

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 947-952

  Kawahito, Y ^a   Kasai, H ^a   Nakanishi, H ^a   Okiji, A ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WAKAYAMA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; FERMI LEVEL; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSCOPES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SURFACES; TEMPERATURE; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

COULOMB INTERACTION; LIPPMANN-SCHWINGER EQUATION; METAL SURFACE; QUANTUM TRANSPORT;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 0033555062     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.369215     Document Type: Article

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