Observation of a Coulomb staircase in electron transport through a molecularly linked chain of gold colloidal particles

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 70, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 2759-2761

  Sato, T ^a   Ahmed, H ^b  

^a HITACHI CAMBRIDGE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0342516007     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.118975     Document Type: Article

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