Electron transport in a Pt-CO-Pt nanocontact: Density functional theory calculations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Strange, M ^a   Thygesen, K S ^a   Jacobsen, K W ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

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EID: 33645240125     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.125424     Document Type: Article

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