Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9781274 | Progress in Solid State Chemistry | 2005 | 15 Pages |
Abstract
Metal nanocrystals can behave as “artificial atoms” due to their diameter-dependent single electron charging energy. Organically passivated nanocrystals with narrow size distributions can self-assemble into ordered arrays, offering the possibility of artificial atom solids with unique collective electronic properties, derived from both the size-dependent electronic properties of the individual nanocrystal cores and the inter-nanocrystal electronic coupling mechanisms. We review our recent progress on probing the electronic properties of artificial atom solids via variable temperature charge transport measurements on laterally contacted arrays of metal nanocrystals, together with development of combined synthesis and processing routes to manipulate these properties.
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Authors
Aidan J. Quinn, Gareth Redmond,