Electronic properties probed by scanning tunneling spectroscopy: From isolated gold nanocrystal to well-defined supracrystals

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Yang, Peng ^a   Arfaoui, Imad ^a   Cren, Tristan ^b   Goubet, Nicolas ^a   Pileni, Marie Paule ^a  

^a Université Pierre et Marie Curie   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES NANOSCIENCES DE PARIS   (France)

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EID: 84865062777     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.075409     Document Type: Article

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