Leonardo D. Machado Cristiano F. Woellner, Pedro A. S. Autreto
The Influence of Morphology on the Charge Transport in Two-Phase Disordered Organic Systems Journal Article
Em: Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., vol. 1737, 2015.
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da Silva Autreto, Pedro Alves; Galvao, Douglas S; Artacho, Emilio
Species fractionation in atomic chains from mechanically stretched alloys Journal Article
Em: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, vol. 26, não 43, pp. 435304, 2014.
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Maureen J Lagos Pedro A Autreto, Daniel Ugarte
Correlation between Quantum Conductance and Atomic Arrangement of Silver Atomic-Size Nanocontacts Conferência
Correlation between Quantum Conductance and Atomic Arrangement of Silver Atomic-Size Nanocontacts, não D1.3, MRSSpring 2012, 2012.
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Autreto, Pedro A
Correlation between Quantum Conductance and Atomic Arrangement of Silver Atomic-Size Nanocontacts Apresentação
10.04.2012, (Work with Maureen J Lagos, Daniel Ugarte, Douglas S Galvao.).
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2015

Leonardo D. Machado Cristiano F. Woellner, Pedro A. S. Autreto
The Influence of Morphology on the Charge Transport in Two-Phase Disordered Organic Systems Journal Article
Em: Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., vol. 1737, 2015.
Resumo | Links | BibTeX | Tags: ab initio, conductance, nanowires
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2014

da Silva Autreto, Pedro Alves; Galvao, Douglas S; Artacho, Emilio
Species fractionation in atomic chains from mechanically stretched alloys Journal Article
Em: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, vol. 26, não 43, pp. 435304, 2014.
Resumo | Links | BibTeX | Tags: ab initio, alloys, nanowires
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