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 …

The intrinsic scaling-down ability, simple metal-insulator-metal (MIM) sandwich structure,
excellent performances, and complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) …

The scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) was invented by Binnig and Rohrer and
received a Nobel Prize of Physics in 1986. Together with the atomic force microscope (AFM) …

The conductance of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) was found to be quantized.
The experimental method involved measuring the conductance of nanotubes by replacing …

The continuing miniaturization of microelectronics raises the prospect of nanometre-scale
devices with mechanical and electrical properties that are qualitatively different from those at …

Atomic and single-molecule junctions represent the ultimate limit to the miniaturization of
electrical circuits. They are also ideal platforms for testing quantum transport theories that …

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and its Application presents a unified view of the rapidly
growing field of STM, and its many derivatives. A thorough discussion of the various …

We have used high resolution transmission electron microscopy to determine the structure of
gold nanowires generated by mechanical stretching. Just before rupture, the contacts adopt …

We present atomistic simulations of the tensile and compressive loading of single crystal
face-centered cubic (FCC) nanowires with〈 100〉 and〈 110〉 orientations to study the …

Scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) has proved to be a fascinating and powerful
technique in the field of surface science. The fact that sets the STM apart from most other …