Conductance through atomic point contacts between fcc(100) electrodes of gold

European Physical Journal B

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 497-501

  Lopez Acevedo, O ^a   Koudela, D ^a   Hakkinen H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM CONTACTS; CHANNEL DECOMPOSITIONS; CO-ORDINATION NUMBERS; CONDUCTANCE CHANNELS; CONDUCTANCE GAPS; CONDUCTANCE OSCILLATIONS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTANCES; ENERGY RANGES; EXCHANGE-CORRELATION ENERGIES; FERMI ENERGIES; GENERALIZED GRADIENT APPROXIMATIONS; GOLD ATOMS; GOLD ELECTRODES; LOCAL DENSITIES; NANO CONTACTS; OPEN CHANNELS; PSEUDO-POTENTIALS; RECURSION-TRANSFER-MATRIX METHODS; WEAK COUPLINGS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; GOLD; MOTION ESTIMATION; POINT CONTACTS; PRASEODYMIUM COMPOUNDS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

ATOMS;

EID: 58849144805     PISSN: 14346028     EISSN: 14346036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2008-00458-4     Document Type: Article

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