Modeling of electronic transport in scanning tunneling microscope tip-carbon nanotube systems

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1739-1741

  Yamada, Toshishige ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0039190155     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1357206     Document Type: Article

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