Coulomb blockade in single-layer Au nanocluster films

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2001, Pages

  Ancona, M G ^a   Kruppa, W ^a   Rendell, R W ^a   Snow, A W ^a   Park, D ^a   Boos, J B ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRONICS; FILM; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NANOPARTICLE;

EID: 0034895804     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.033408     Document Type: Article

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