Single charge effects in STM tunneling characteristics in air

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 1-5

  Suganuma, Yoshinori ^a   Dhirani, Al Amin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 85038276428     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.65.235426     Document Type: Article

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