Quantum size effects in metallic nanostructures
- 1 April 2007
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics Today
- Vol. 60 (4), 50-54
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2731973
Abstract
Electrons confined in ultrathin metal films provide a window on the peculiar world of quantum mechanics.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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