Conductance oscillations in metallic nanocontacts

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 754011-754015

  Havu, P ^a   Torsti, T ^a   Puska, M J ^a   Nieminen, R M ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL; SODIUM;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CALCULATION; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRICITY; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NANOPARTICLE; OSCILLATION;

EID: 0037104330     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.66.075401     Document Type: Article

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