Atom transfer and single-adatom contacts

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2005, Pages

  Limot, L ^a   Kroger J ^a   Berndt, R ^a   Garcia Lekue, A ^b   Hofer, W A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPOLAR BONDING; EXPONENTIAL TUNNELING; FEEDBACK LOOP; METAL BREAK JUNCTIONS; SINGLE-ADATOM CONTACTS;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); COMPUTER SIMULATION; COPPER; ELASTICITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; IMPURITIES; NUMERICAL METHODS; POINT CONTACTS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SILVER; SURFACE PHENOMENA; ULTRAHIGH VACUUM;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 18144421569     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.126102     Document Type: Article

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