Formation of a metallic contact: Jump to contact revisited

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Untiedt, C ^a   Caturla, M J ^a   Calvo, M R ^a   Palacios, J J ^a   Segers, R C ^b   Van Ruitenbeek, J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMERS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONOMERS;

ATOMIC CONTACTS; DOUBLE BOND CONTACTS;

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS;

EID: 34547261906     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.206801     Document Type: Article

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