Conductance bistability of gold nanowires at room temperature

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Kiguchi, Manabu ^a   Konishi, Tatsuya ^a   Murakoshi, Kei ^a,b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

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EID: 33644866594     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.125406     Document Type: Article

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