First - Principles Study on Electron Transport Property through Nanostructures
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چکیده
Within the last several years, a large number of experiments concerning metallic wire contacts have been carried out using a scanning tunneling microscope and a mechanically controllable break junction. Recently, the unique phenomena of ballistic electron transport through nanoscale junctions such as quantized conductance have been observed experimentally and theoretically. In this situation, future research on transport properties can be expected to lead to new discoveries of nanoscience and novel fabrications of electronic devices.
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