Inelastic scattering and local heating in atomic gold wires

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 25, 2004, Pages

  Frederiksen, Thomas ^a   Brandbyge, Mads ^a   Lorente, Nicolás ^b   Jauho, Antti Pekka ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD WIRES; INELASTIC SCATTERING; LOWEST ORDER PERTURBATION THEORY (LOPT); MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; GOLD; METAL INSULATOR TRANSITION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHONONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SCATTERING;

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS;

EID: 42749102453     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.256601     Document Type: Article

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