Quantized conductance atomic switch

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7021, 2005, Pages 47-50

  Terabe, K ^a,b   Hasegawa, T ^a,b,c   Nakayama, T ^a,b,c   Aono, M ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; ENERGY UTILIZATION; LOGIC CIRCUITS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ATOMIC BRIDGES; ATOMIC SWITCHES; QUANTIZED CONDUCTANCE ATOMIC SWITCH (QCAS); ROOM TEMPERATURE;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; DEVICE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTIZED CONDUCTANCE ATOMIC SWITCH; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

EID: 11944255355     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03190     Document Type: Article

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