Metal to insulator transition in films of molecularly linked gold nanoparticles

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Zabet Khosousi, Amir ^a   Trudeau, Paul Emile ^a   Suganuma, Yoshinori ^a   Dhirani, Al Amin ^a   Statt, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GOLD; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THIN FILMS;

LINKER MOLECULES; METAL TO INSULATOR TRANSITION (MIT); METALLIC SAMPLES; T-INDEPENDENT ELASTIC SCATTERING;

METAL INSULATOR TRANSITION;

EID: 33646371245     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.156403     Document Type: Article

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