From tunneling to point contact: Correlation between forces and current

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 19, 2005, Pages

  Sun, Yan ^a   Mortensen, Henrik ^a   Schär, Sacha ^a   Lucier, Anne Sophie ^a   Miyahara, Yoichi ^a   Grütter, Peter ^a   Hofer, Werner ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33344479455     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.193407     Document Type: Article

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