High-bias conductance of atom-sized Al contacts

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 1554281-1554287

  Mizobata, Jun Ichi ^a   Fujii, Akihiro ^a   Kurokawa, Shu ^a   Sakai, Akira ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CONDUCTANCE; HISTOGRAM; MEASUREMENT; PROBABILITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

EID: 34548864994     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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