Negative differential photoconductance in gold nanoparticle arrays in the Coulomb blockade regime

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 4181-4189

  Mangold, Markus A ^a,b   Calame, Michel ^c   Mayor, Marcel ^c   Holleitner, Alexander W ^a  

^a WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coulomb blockade; Nanoparticle assemblies; Nanoparticles; Nanoscale optoelectronics; Photoconductance; Photothermoelectrics

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTANCE PROPERTIES; COULOMB-BLOCKADE REGIME; DARK CURRENT-VOLTAGE; DUAL-BEAM; ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL; EXCITATION TECHNIQUE; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; GOLD-NANOPARTICLE ARRAYS; HEXAGONAL CRYSTALS; LOCALIZED HEATING; LOW TEMPERATURES; NANO SCALE; NANOPARTICLE ARRAY; NANOPARTICLE ASSEMBLIES; OPTICALLY INDUCED; PHOTOCONDUCTANCE; PHOTOTHERMOELECTRICS; SINGLE-ELECTRON CHARGING; TUNNELING CONDUCTANCE;

METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOEXCITATION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

COULOMB BLOCKADE;

EID: 84864696867     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn300673t     Document Type: Article

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