Measurement of discrete energy-level spectra in individual chemically synthesized gold nanoparticles

Nano Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4506-4512

  Kuemmeth, Ferdinand ^a   Bolotin, Kirill I ^a   Shi, Su Fei ^a   Ralph, Daniel C ^a  

^a Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS; DISCRETE ENERGIES; ELECTRONIC ENERGY LEVELS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; NON-MAGNETIC; ORGANIC MOLECULES; RANDOM MATRIX THEORIES; SINGLE-ELECTRON TRANSISTORS; SIZE AND SHAPES; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS; TUNNEL BARRIERS;

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; GOLD; NANOPARTICLES;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 61649124707     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl802473n     Document Type: Article

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