Discontinuous Euler instability in nanoelectromechanical systems

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Weick, Guillaume ^a,b   Pistolesi, Fabio ^c,d   Mariani, Eros ^a,e   Von Oppen, Felix ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c UMR 5798   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77955148342     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.121409     Document Type: Article

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