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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 91, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2805026
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We demonstrate that thin films consisting of cross-linked nanoparticle aggregates function as highly sensitive strain gauges. The sensors exploit the exponential dependence of the interparticle tunnel resistance on the particle separation. Their sensitivity (gauge factor) is two orders of magnitude higher than that of conventional metal foil gauges and rivals that of state-of-the-art semiconductor gauges. We describe the strain gauge behavior in a tunneling model that predicts the dependence of the gauge factor on several parameters, in particular, the nanoparticle size, the interparticle separation gap, and the conductance of the linker molecules. (C) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
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