Electron Transport in an Array of Movable Metal Nanoparticles

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 2: Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 3 B, 2001, Pages 1923-1926

  Nishiguchi, Norihiko ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coulomb blockade; Hysteresis; Ligand stabilized gold nanoparticles; Random telegraph noise; Single electron tunneling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COULOMB BLOCKADE; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRON TUNNELING; HYSTERESIS;

METAL NANOPARTICLES; SINGLE ELECTRON TUNNELING;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0035267625     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/jjap.40.1923     Document Type: Article

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