Atomic scale conductance induced by single impurity charging

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2005, Pages

  Pradhan, N A ^a   Liu, N ^a   Silien, C ^a,b   Ho, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC SCALE CONDUCTANCE; DIFFERENTIAL CONDUCTANCE; PROBE ELECTRON TRANSPORT; SINGLE IMPURITY CHARGING;

ALUMINA; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; MONOLAYERS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; TRANSISTORS;

IMPURITIES;

EID: 18144391178     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.076801     Document Type: Article

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