Electronic shell effects and the stability of alkali nanowires

2004/06/17 by D. F. Urban, Daniel F. Urban, J. Bürki +6
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Surface and Thin Film Phenomena #cond-mat.mes-hall

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.ssc.2004.05.038

published as Solid State Comm. 131, 609 (2004)

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Abstract

Experimental conductance histograms for Na nanowires are analyzed in detail and compared to recent theoretical results on the stability of cylindrical and elliptical nanowires, using the free-electron model. We find a one-to-one correspondence between the peaks in the histograms and the most stable nanowire geometries, indicating that several of the commonly observed nanowires have elliptical cross sections.

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