Temperature-dependent suppression of conductance in quantum wires: Anomalous activation energy from pinning of the band edge

Engineering & Materials Science

• Semiconductor quantum wires 100%
• Activation energy 51%
• Density functional theory 37%
• Chemical potential 37%
• Point contacts 28%
• Electrons 25%
• Chemical activation 22%
• Temperature 19%
• Electric potential 12%

Physics & Astronomy

• quantum wires 55%
• retarding 37%
• activation energy 36%
• plateaus 23%
• activation 19%
• density functional theory 19%
• temperature dependence 16%
• temperature 14%
• electric potential 13%
• electrons 10%

Chemical Compounds

• Conductance 47%
• Reaction Activation Energy 34%
• Chemical Potential 27%
• Voltage 18%
• Density Functional Theory 15%
• Electron Particle 13%