Local heating in noble metal nanocontacts under high biases at 77 K

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 252, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 8677-8682

  Tsutsui, Makusu ^a   Teramae, Yumi ^a   Kurokawa, Shu ^a   Sakai, Akira ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

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

PRECIOUS METALS;

EID: 33748952639     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2005.12.031     Document Type: Article

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