Electromechanically induced transition from nonohmic to ohmic behavior at contact interfaces

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 4842-4844

  Kogut, L ^a   Komvopoulos, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVE SURFACES; CONTACT INTERFACES; NANOCONTACTS; SURFACE FILMS;

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRODES; GRAPH THEORY; INSULATING MATERIALS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); OHMIC CONTACTS; POINT CONTACTS; POLYSILICON; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

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EID: 3042772801     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1757633     Document Type: Article

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