First-principles treatments of electron transport properties for nanoscale junctions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 19, 2003, Pages

  Fujimoto, Yoshitaka ^a   Hirose, Kikuji ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; NANOPARTICLE; STEADY STATE;

EID: 0037826934     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.195315     Document Type: Article

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