Conduction channels of Al wires at finite bias

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2001, Pages

  Kobayashi, Nobuhiko ^a   Aono, Masakazu ^a   Tsukada, Masaru ^b  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DECOMPOSITION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035883620     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.121402     Document Type: Article

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