Charge transport in various dimensions of small networks composed of gold nanoparticles and terthiophene wire-molecules

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 26, 2011, Pages

  Noguchi, Yutaka ^a,b   Terui, Toshifumi ^c   Katayama, Takuya ^d   Matsushita, Michio M ^e   Sugawara, Tadashi ^d  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAHAVIOR; CHARGING ENERGIES; CURRENT PATHS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; SMALL NETWORKS; TERTHIOPHENES; TUNNELING RESISTANCE; VARIABLE RANGE HOPPING MODEL;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; NANOPARTICLES;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 79960095918     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3605598     Document Type: Article

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