Quantum necking in stressed metallic nanowires

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 25, 2003, Pages

  Burki J ^a,b   Goldstein, Raymond E ^a   Stafford, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SURFACE TENSION; TENSILE STRESS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WIRE;

METALLIC NANOWIRES; QUANTUM NECKING;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0942288754     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.254501     Document Type: Article

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