Prof. Nicolás Agraït

Catedrático - Full Professor Laboratorio de Bajas Temperaturas Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada Universidad Autónoma de Madrid   e-mail: nicolas.agrait@uam.es phone: 34-91  497 3800 fax: 34-91  497 3961 address: Depto.  Física de la Materia Condensada C-III-501-3 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 28049 Madrid, Spain

TEACHING ( Docencia) 

RESEARCH LINES 

 

	Atomic chains: Quantum transport, mechanical properties
	Inelastic scattering in atomic chains
	Quantum transport in single molecules FUNMOLS (Marie Curie Initial Training Network Fundamentals of Molecular Electronic Assemblies)
	Graphene: local probe experiments

Selected publications

N. Agrait, A. Levy-Yeyati, J.M. van Ruitenbeek
Quantum properties of atomic-sized conductors
Phys. Reps. 377, 81-380 (2003)     (pdf)

N. Agraït, C. Untiedt, G. Rubio-Bollinger, S. Vieira
Onset of energy dissipation in ballistic atomic wires
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 216803 (2002)     (pdf)

G. Rubio-Bollinger, S.R. Bahn, N. Agraït, K.W. Jacobsen, S. Vieira
Mechanical properties and formation mechanisms of a wire of single gold atoms
Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 026101(2001)     (pdf)

 A.I. Yanson, G. Rubio Bollinger, H.E. van den Brom, N. Agraït, J.M. van Ruitenbeek
Formation and manipulation of a metallic wire of single gold atoms
Nature 395, 783 (1998)   (pdf)

E. Scheer, N. Agraït, J.C. Cuevas, A. Levy-Yeyati, B. Ludolph, A. Martín-Rodero, G. Rubio Bollinger,  J.M. van Ruitenbeek, C. Urbina
The signature of chemical valence in the electrical conduction through a single- atom contact
Nature 394,154 (1998)     (pdf)

More publications by N. Agraït

G. Rubio-Bollinger, C. de las Heras, E. Bascones, et al.
Single-channel transmission in gold one-atom contacts and chains
Phys. Rev. B  (2003)    (pdf)

C. Untiedt, A. I. Yanson, R. Grande, G. Rubio-Bollinger, N. Agraït, S. Vieira, J.M. van Ruitenbeek
Calibration of the length of a chain of single gold atoms
Phy. Rev. B, 66, 085418-1--6 (2002)    (pdf)

N. Agraït, C. Untiedt, G. Rubio-Bollinger, S. Vieira
Electron transport and phonons in atomic wires
Chem. Phys. 281, 231 (2002)     (pdf)

J.C. Cuevas, A. Levy-Yeyati, A. Martín-Rodero, G. Rubio Bollinger, C. Untiedt,  N. Agraït
Evolution of Conducting Channels in Metallic Atomic Contacts under Elastic Deformation
Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 2990 (1998)   (pdf)

C. Untiedt, G. Rubio, S. Vieira, and N. Agrait
Fabrication and characterization of metallic nanowires
Phys. Rev. B 56, 2154 (1997)     (pdf)

G. Rubio, N. Agrait, S. Vieira
Atomic-sized metallic contacts: mechanical properties and electronic transport
Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 2302-5 (1996)       (pdf)

R.W. Carpick, N. Agrait, D.F. Ogletree and M. Salmeron
Variation of the interfacial shear strength and adhesion of a nanometer-sized contact
Langmuir 12, 3334 (1996) (pdf)

R.W. Carpick, N. Agrait, D.F. Ogletree and M. Salmeron
Measurement of interfacial shear (friction) with an ultra-high vacuum atomic force microscope
J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 14, 1289 (1996)  (pdf)

N. Agrait, G. Rubio y S. Vieira
Plastic deformation of nanometer-scale gold connective necks
Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 3995-3999 (1995)   (pdf)                      

  N. Agrait, J.G. Rodrigo y S. Vieira  
Conductance steps and quantization in atomic-size contacts
Phys. Rev. B 47, 12345-12348 (1993)    (pdf)            

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