Fabrication of nanometer-spaced electrodes using gold nanoparticles

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 4613-4615

  Khondaker, Saiful I ^a   Yao, Zhen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTROMIGRATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FABRICATION; GOLD; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY;

METALLIC ELECTRODES;

ELECTRODES;

EID: 0037049495     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1528285     Document Type: Article

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