Effective temperature of Au nanocontacts under high biases

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers and Short Notes and Review Papers

Volumn 44, Issue 7 A, 2005, Pages 5188-5190

  Tsutsui, Makusu ^a   Taninouchi, Yu Ki ^a   Kurokawa, Shu ^a   Sakai, Akira ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contact Instability; Local heating; Nanocontacts; Nanowires; Two level fluctuation

Indexed keywords

HEATING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; STABILITY;

CONTACT INSTABILITY; NANOCONTACTS; NANOWIRES; TWO-LEVEL FLUCTUATION;

GOLD;

EID: 31544459795     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: 13474065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.44.5188     Document Type: Article

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