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Quantum properties of atomic-sized conductors
Nicolas Agrait, Alfredo Levy Yeyati, Jan M. van Ruitenbeek
Using remarkably simple experimental techniques it is possible to gently break a metallic contact and thus form conducting nanowires. During the last stages of the pulling a neck-s…
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Calibration of the length of a chain of single gold atoms
C. Untiedt, A. I. Yanson, R. Grande +4
Using a scanning tunneling microscope or mechanically controllable break junctions it has been shown that it is possible to control the formation of a wire made of single gold atom…