Contacting individual molecules using mechanically controllable break junctions

Lecture Notes in Physics

Volumn 680, Issue , 2006, Pages 253-274

  van Ruitenbeek, Jan ^a   Scheer, Elke ^b   Weber, Heiko B ^c,d  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 33749080791     PISSN: 00758450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-31514-4_10     Document Type: Review

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