Nanocontacts: Probing electronic structure under extreme uniaxial strains

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 79, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 4198-4201

  Sánchez Portal, Daniel ^a   Untiedt, Carlos ^a   Soler, José M ^a   Sáenz, Juan J ^a   Agraåt, Nicolás ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NICOLÁS CABRERA   (Spain)

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EID: 0041727872     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.4198     Document Type: Article

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