Bias-induced local heating in atom-sized metal contacts at 77 K

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 13, 2007, Pages

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

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; SWITCHING FREQUENCY;

CONTACT CONDUCTANCE; CONTACT HEATING; LOW-BIAS REGIME;

ELECTRIC CONTACTS;

EID: 34047134994     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2719682     Document Type: Article

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