Coulomb blockade in a granular material made of gold nanowires

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Guerin, Hoel ^a,b   Yoshihira, Masanori ^a   Kura, Hiroaki ^c   Ogawa, Tomoyuki ^c   Sato, Tetsuya ^a   Maki, Hideyuki ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED BIAS; COMPETITIVE EFFECTS; COULOMB OSCILLATION; COULOMB-BLOCKADE REGIME; CURRENT DEPENDENCE; CURRENT PEAK; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; GATE VOLTAGES; GOLD NANOWIRE; INELASTIC COTUNNELING; METALLIC ELECTRODES; OLEYLAMINE; ONE-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS; QUANTUM DOT ARRAYS; SEQUENTIAL TUNNELING; VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COULOMB BLOCKADE; GOLD; GOLD COMPOUNDS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; NANOWIRES; SUBSTRATES;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84869162762     PISSN: 19449399     EISSN: 19449380     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NANO.2012.6322047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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