Electron transport in stretched monoatomic gold wires

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 23, 2006, Pages

  Grigoriev, A ^a   Skorodumova, N V ^a   Simak, S I ^b   Wendin, G ^c   Johansson, B ^a,d   Ahuja, R ^a,d  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GOLD; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); POWER TRANSMISSION; STRETCHING;

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; GOLD ATOMS; MONOATOMIC GOLD WIRES;

WIRE;

EID: 33845354767     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.236807     Document Type: Article

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