Electron transport properties of nanocrystals: Isolated, and `supra'-crystalline phases

Advanced Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 633-637

  Taleb, Abdelhafed ^a   Silly, Fabian ^b   Gusev, Alexander O ^b   Charra, Fabrice ^b   Pileni, Marie Paule ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; GOLD; GRAPHITE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES; SUPERLATTICES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

HIGHLY ORIENTED PYROLYTIC GRAPHITE (HOPG) SUBSTRATE;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0033733602     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4095(200005)12:9<633::AID-ADMA633>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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