C. A. Stafford
Published 2002-04-13Version 1
Metal nanowires exhibit a number of interesting properties: their electrical conductance is quantized, their shot-noise is suppressed by the Pauli principle, and they are remarkably strong and stable. We show that many of these properties can be understood quantitatively using a nanoscale generalization of the free-electron model. Possible technological applications of nanowires are also discussed.
Comments: 8 pages, 5 postscript figures, lectures given at Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute on Physics and Technology at the Nanometer Scale
Journal: Phys. Stat. Sol. (b), vol. 230, p. 481 (2002)
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