Ab initio approach to the ballistic transport through single atoms

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Bagrets, Alexei ^a   Papanikolaou, Nikos ^b   Mertig, Ingrid ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Greece)

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EID: 33144478099     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.045428     Document Type: Article

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