Spatially resolved observation of Coulomb blockade and negative differential conductance on a Ag cluster on the clean GaAs(110) surface

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1716-1718

  Jiang, C S ^a   Nakayama, T ^a   Aono, M ^a,b  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SILVER;

COULOMB BLOCKADE; GIANT POSITIVE DIFFERENTIAL CONDUCTANCE (GPDC); NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL CONDUCTANCE (NDC);

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0032607211     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.123665     Document Type: Article

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