Microscopic current dynamics in nanoscale junctions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Sai, Na ^a,b   Bushong, Neil ^a   Hatcher, Ryan ^c   Di Ventra, Massimiliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33947190900     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.115410     Document Type: Article

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