Excess-silver-induced bridge formation in a silver sulfide atomic switch

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 15, 2008, Pages

  Wang, Zhongchang ^a   Gu, Tingkun ^b   Tada, Tomofumi ^b   Watanabe, Satoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; BRIDGES; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; SILVER COMPOUNDS;

ATOMIC SWITCHES; BRIDGE FORMATIONS; CONDUCTIVE; ELECTRON TRANSPORTS; HETEROSTRUCTURE; MULLIKEN POPULATIONS; NONEQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTIONS; S LAYERS; SILVER SULFIDES; VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 54149106160     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2963197     Document Type: Article

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