Conductance of single-atom platinum contacts: Voltage dependence of the conductance histogram

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 24, 2003, Pages

  Nielsen, S K ^a   Noat, Y ^b,d   Brandbyge, M ^c   Smit, R H M ^b   Hansen, K ^a   Chen, L Y ^b   Yanson, A I ^b,e   Besenbacher, F ^a   van Ruitenbeek, J M ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d Groupe de Physique des Solides   (France)

^e Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL; PLATINUM;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GEOMETRY; HISTOGRAM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0042528948     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.245411     Document Type: Article

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