Calibration of the length of a chain of single gold atoms

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 854181-854186

  Untiedt, C ^a   Yanson, A I ^a   Grande, R ^b   Rubio Bollinger, G ^b   Agrait N ^b   Vieira, S ^b   van Ruitenbeek, J M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL BOND; HISTOGRAM; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0037104439     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.66.085418     Document Type: Article

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