Nanometer-spaced electrodes with calibrated separation

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 321-323

  Kervennic, Y V ^a   Van Der Zant, H S J ^a   Morpurgo, A F ^a   Gurevich, L ^a   Kouwenhoven, L P ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC SCALE; AU NANOCLUSTERS; METALLIC ELECTRODES; PLATINUM ELECTRODES;

ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; ELECTRON BEAMS; PLATINUM; SEPARATION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ELECTRODES;

EID: 79955987350     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1433914     Document Type: Article

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