Observation of delocalized transport and low-dimensionality effects in disordered carbon thin films

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 14, 2007, Pages

  Bhattacharyya, Somnath ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON THIN FILMS; DELOCALIZED TRANSPORT; LOW TUNNEL EFFECTIVE MASS; PHASE COHERENCE LENGTH;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CARBON CLUSTERS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRON-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS; ORDER DISORDER TRANSITIONS; THIN FILMS;

CARBON FILMS;

EID: 34948885787     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2790844     Document Type: Article

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