Quantum properties of atomic-sized conductors

N Agraıt, AL Yeyati, JM Van Ruitenbeek - Physics Reports, 2003 - Elsevier
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 …

First-principles calculation methods for obtaining scattering waves to investigate transport properties of nanostructures

T Ono, Y Fujimoto, S Tsukamoto - Quantum Matter, 2012 - ingentaconnect.com
Recent developments in the fabrication and investigation of atomic-sized conductors have
enabled the construction of electronic devices of less than 100 nanometers. In this review …

First-principles approach to electrical transport in atomic-scale nanostructures

JJ Palacios, AJ Pérez-Jiménez, E Louis, E SanFabián… - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
We present a first-principles numerical implementation of Landauer formalism for electrical
transport in nanostructures characterized down to the atomic level. The novelty and interest …

Electromigration and the structure of metallic nanocontacts

R Hoffmann-Vogel - Applied Physics Reviews, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
This article reviews efforts to structurally characterize metallic nanocontacts. While the
electronic characterization of such junctions is relatively straight forward, usually it is …

Structure and conductance histogram of atomic-sized Au contacts

M Dreher, F Pauly, J Heurich, JC Cuevas, E Scheer… - Physical Review B …, 2005 - APS
Many experiments have shown that the conductance histograms of metallic atomic-sized
contacts exhibit a peak structure, which is characteristic of the corresponding material. The …

Theoretical analysis of the conductance histograms and structural properties of Ag, Pt, and Ni nanocontacts

F Pauly, M Dreher, JK Viljas, M Häfner, JC Cuevas… - Physical Review B …, 2006 - APS
Conductance histograms are a valuable tool to study the intrinsic conduction properties of
metallic atomic-sized contacts. These histograms show a peak structure, which is …

Mechanical annealing of metallic electrodes at the atomic scale

C Sabater, C Untiedt, JJ Palacios, MJ Caturla - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
The process of creating an atomically defined and robust metallic tip is described and
quantified using measurements of contact conductance between gold electrodes and …

Quantized conductance in Au-Pd and Au-Ag alloy nanocontacts

A Enomoto, S Kurokawa, A Sakai - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
We measure the quantized conductance in Au-Pd and Au-Ag alloy nanocontacts for a wide
range of Pd and Ag concentrations, and study how the 1 G 0 conductance of Au changes …

Thickness induced structural transition in suspended fcc metal nanofilms

A Hasmy, E Medina - Physical review letters, 2002 - APS
Recent experiments show that at a critical thickness, surface forces can dominate the bulk
coercing suspended Au nanofilms to globally reconstruct from the (001) to the (111) …

Adsorbate effect on the mechanical stability of atomically thin metallic wires

HX He, C Shu, CZ Li, NJ Tao - Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 2002 - Elsevier
We have studied electrochemically controlled molecular adsorption onto metallic nanowires
with quantized conductance. Each nanowire is created mechanically by separating two Au …