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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 61, Issue 19, Pages 12725-12727Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.61.12725
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We have investigated the conductance of gold point contacts using a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) inside a transmission electron microscope (TEM). Measuring the conductance of these point contacts as a function of radius, we could directly compare it with theories both in the ballistic regime (Sharvin) as well as in the diffusive regime (Maxwell). The width of the contacts were between a single atom and 20 nm. Using an interpolation formula (Wexler) between the two limits, we obtain a mean free path of 4 nm, which is about ten times shorter than the room-temperature bulk value. The low value indicates an enhanced scattering, which is not due to high temperature in the point contact, instead a large number of scattering centers is created during the point contact formation process.
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