Electronic and transport properties of artificial gold chains

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Calzolari, Arrigo ^a,b   Cavazzoni, Carlo ^a,c   Nardelli, Marco Buongiorno ^b,d  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CINECA   (Italy)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FERMI LEVEL; GOLD; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; QUANTUM THEORY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSITION METALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ARTIFICIAL GOLD CHAIN; MECHANICALLY CONTROLLABLE BREAK JUNCTIONS (MCBJ); NANOWIRES; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 19544373275     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.096404     Document Type: Article

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