Engineering negative differential conductance with the Cu(111) surface state

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 24, 2011, Pages

  Heinrich, B W ^a,c   Rastei, M V ^a   Choi, D J ^a   Frederiksen, T ^b   Limot, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARRIER THICKNESS; CU(1 1 1); LOW-TEMPERATURE SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL CONDUCTANCE; ORIENTATION DEPENDENCE; SHOCKLEY SURFACE STATE; SURFACE STATE;

MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

ELECTRON TUNNELING;

EID: 83655191458     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.246801     Document Type: Article

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