Room-temperature coulomb blockade from chemically synthesized Au nanoparticles stabilized by acid-base interaction

Applied Physics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Kano, Shinya ^a,c   Azuma, Yasuo ^a,c   Kanehara, Masayuki ^b,c   Teranishi, Toshiharu ^b,c   Majima, Yutaka ^a,c,d  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d Sunchon National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID BASE INTERACTION; AU NANOPARTICLE; AU(111) SURFACES; CHARGING ENERGIES; COULOMB GAPS; CURRENT VOLTAGE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; SELF-ASSEMBLED; TUNNELING RESISTANCE;

ACIDS; CHEMISORPTION; COULOMB BLOCKADE; NANOPARTICLES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMAL LOGGING; VANADIUM;

GOLD;

EID: 78549279456     PISSN: 18820778     EISSN: 18820786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/APEX.3.105003     Document Type: Article

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