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Atomic-Sized Metallic Contacts: Mechanical Properties and Electronic Transport
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Measuring simultaneously the force and the conductance during the formation and rupture of an atomic-sized gold contact at room temperature, we observe that deformation occurs as a sequence of structural transformations involving elastic and yielding stages and that force and conductance before rupture have definite values which are likely to correspond to a single atom contact. We measure the mechanical properties of contacts consisting of only a few atoms and show that the stepwise variation of the conductance is always due to the atomic rearrangements in the contact.
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- Authors
- Rubio, G., Agraït, N., & Vieira, S.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1996-03-25
- Volume
- 76
- Issue
- 13
- Pages
- 2302-2305
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
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- W2134613426
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- 560
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- FWCI
- 44.17
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- en
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