Reversible metal-insulator transition in ordered metal nanocrystal monolayers observed by impedance spectroscopy

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 3807-3810

  Markovich, Gil ^a   Collier, Charles P ^b   Heath, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTROSCOPY;

INTERPARTICLE CHARGE TUNNELING TIME; INTERPARTICLE SEPARATION DISTANCE; INTERPARTICLE SPACING; METAL INSULATOR TRANSITION;

LANGMUIR BLODGETT FILMS;

EID: 0032049142     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.3807     Document Type: Article

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