Surface defect mediated electron hopping between nanoparticles separated by a nano-gap

Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 244-246

  Juodkazis, Saulius ^a   Rosa, Lorenzo ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Defect induced transport; Electron hopping; Electron tunneling; Plasmonics

Indexed keywords

DEFECT SITES; DEFECT STATE; DEFECTS INDUCED; ELECTRICAL CONNECTIVITY; ELECTRON HOPPING; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EXTINCTION MEASUREMENTS; GAP SIZE; LIGHT FIELDS; NANO PATTERN; NANO-GAP; NANOGAPS; NARROW GAP; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE; PLASMONICS; POLARIZATION-CONTROLLED; SPECTRAL BEHAVIORS; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; SUB-SURFACES; SURFACE REGION; SURROUNDING MATERIALS;

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRON TUNNELING; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACES;

SURFACE DEFECTS;

EID: 77958581899     PISSN: 18626254     EISSN: 18626270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssr.201004226     Document Type: Article

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