Conductance of atomic-scale metallic contacts with controllable interface hopping integrals

Krompiewski, S. and Zwierzycki, M. (2002) Conductance of atomic-scale metallic contacts with controllable interface hopping integrals. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 240 (1-3). pp. 209-211. ISSN 0304-8853

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Abstract:	We study the conductance of metallic point contacts between two external leads. Landauer conductance has been computed under constraint of atomic charge neutrality. For Cu and Ni the conductance increases nonlinearly with the number of atoms within the contact layer (unlike the Sharvin conductance). Moreover, the current polarization of nickel turns out to be sensitive to interface conditions.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2002 Elsevier
Research Group:	Computational Materials Science (CMS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/74749
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0304-8853(01)00760-0
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