Effect of impurities in the large Au-Au distances in gold nanowires

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Novaes, Frederico D ^a   Da Silva, Antônio J R ^a   Da Silva, E Z ^b   Fazzio, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; CALCULATIONS; CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; GOLD NANOWIRE; INTERATOMIC DISTANCE; TIGHT-BINDING MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION;

GOLD;

EID: 0037462907     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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