Journal
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 89, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2245376
Keywords
-
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Self-assembled thin films of gold nanoparticles of 4-5 nm, prepared on glass using aliphatic dithiols of different hydrocarbon chain lengths as interparticle linker molecules, have been studied by x-ray methods and dc conductivity. X-ray data revealed small spacer-dependent cluster size variations in the films. Conductivity, in the temperature range of 4.2-300 K, showed a strong relation with spacer length, indicating that different mechanisms of conduction from metal-like through hopping to tunneling dominate, depending on temperature range and particle spacing. The results demonstrate that the electronic and optical properties of such films can be precisely controlled by interparticle distance. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available