Atomic-size oscillations in conductance histograms for gold nanowires and the influence of work hardening

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 25, 2005, Pages

  Yanson, I K ^a,b   Shklyarevskii, O I ^a,c   Csonka, Sz ^d   Van Kempen, H ^c   Speller, S ^c   Yanson, A I ^b   Van Ruitenbeek, J M ^b  

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

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; GOLD; MICROSTRUCTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES;

ATOMIC-SIZE OSCILLATIONS; CONDUCTANCE HISTOGRAMS; NANOWIRE; PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 29144461009     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.256806     Document Type: Article

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