Conductance oscillation and quantization in monoatomic Al wires
arXiv:cond-mat/0612450 · doi:10.1088/0953-8984/19/5/056010
Abstract
We present first-principles calculations for the transport properties of monoatomic Al wires sandwiched between Al(100) electrodes. The conductance of the monoatomic Al wires oscillates with the number of the constituent atoms as a function of the wire length, either with a period of four-atom for wires with the typical interatomic spacing or a period of six-atom with the interatomic spacing of the bulk fcc aluminum, indicating a dependence of the period of conductance oscillation on the interatomic distance of the monoatomic Al wires.
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