Signature of atomic structure in the quantum conductance of gold nanowires

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 19, 2000, Pages 4124-4127

  Rodrigues, Varlei ^a   Fuhrer, Tobias ^a   Ugarte, Daniel ^a  

^a LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE LUZ SÍNCROTRON   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DUCTILITY; ELECTRON BEAMS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; QUANTUM THEORY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

NANOWIRES;

GOLD;

EID: 0041339121     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4124     Document Type: Article

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