Temperature-dependent current-voltage and photoresponsive properties for semiconducting nanodevices fabricated from an oligothiazole dithiol and gold nanoparticles

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 48, 2013, Pages 25325-25333

  Tao, Tao ^a   Geng, Jiao ^a   Hong, Liu ^b   Huang, Wei ^a   Tanaka, Hirofumi ^b   Tanaka, Daisuke ^b   Ogawa, Takuji ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE SEPARATIONS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; GRANULAR THIN FILMS; NANOCOMPOSITE THIN FILMS; PHOTO-RESPONSIVE PROPERTY; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT I-V CHARACTERISTICS;

METAL NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

GOLD;

EID: 84890369602     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp409124u     Document Type: Article

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