Percolating through Networks of Random Thresholds: Finite Temperature Electron Tunneling in Metal Nanocrystal Arrays

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Parthasarathy, Raghuveer ^a   Lin, Xiao Min ^a,b   Elteto, Klara ^a   Rosenbaum, T F ^a   Jaeger, Heinrich M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COULOMB BLOCKADE; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ELECTROSTATICS; GOLD; MONOLAYERS; QUANTUM THEORY; QUENCHING; SILICON NITRIDE; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ELECTROSTATIC ENERGY; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 1642632625     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.076801     Document Type: Article

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