Conductance of atom-sized Zn contacts

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers and Short Notes and Review Papers

Volumn 45, Issue 9 A, 2006, Pages 7217-7223

  Suzuki, Ryo ^a   Mukai, Yasuhiro ^a   Tsutsui, Makusu ^a   Kurokawa, Shu ^a   Sakai, Akira ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conductance; Current induced contact break; Metal nanocontacts; Single atom contacts

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

CONDUCTANCE HISTOGRAMS; CURRENT-INDUCED CONTACT BREAK; METAL NANOCONTACTS; SINGLE-ATOM CONTACTS;

ZINC;

EID: 33749005909     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: 13474065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.45.7217     Document Type: Article

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