Transition from tunneling to direct contact in tungsten nanojunctions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 354171-354177

  Halbritter, A ^a   Csonka, Sz ^a   Mihaly G ^a   Jurdik, E ^b   Kolesnychenko, O Yu ^b   Shklyarevskii, O I ^b,c   Speller, S ^b   Van Kempen, H ^b  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c B VERKIN INSTITUTE FOR LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUNGSTEN;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRODE; HISTOGRAM; NANOJUNCTION; NANOPARTICLE;

EID: 17944389973     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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