Interplay of rayleigh and peierls instabilities in metallic nanowires

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 25, 2003, Pages

  Urban, D F ^a   Grabert, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; FERMI LEVEL; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE TENSION;

ELECTRON-SHELL EFFECTS; NANOWIRES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0942299564     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.256803     Document Type: Article

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