Charge transport in a CoPt3 nanocrystal microwire

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2004
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Beecher, Paul
De Marzi, Gianluca
Quinn, Aidan J.
Redmond, Gareth
Shevchenko, E. V.
Weller, H.
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The electrical characteristics of single CoPt3 nanocrystal microwires formed by magnetic field-directed growth from colloidal solutions are presented. The wires comprise disordered assemblies of discrete nanocrystals, separated from each other by protective organic ligand shells. Electrical data indicate that the activated charge transport properties of the wires are determined by the nanocrystal charging energy, governed by the size and capacitance of the individual nanocrystals. Focused ion beam-assisted deposition of Pt metal at the wire-electrode junctions is employed to optimize the wire-electrode contacts, whilst maintaining the nanocrystal-dominated transport characteristics of these one-dimensional nanocrystal structures. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics. (DOI:10.1063/1.1830684)
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Superlattices , Nanowires , Organization , Temperature , Transition , Monolayers , Contacts , Arrays , Size , Nanocrystals , Metal to metal contacts , Capacitance , Focused ion beam technology
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Beecher, P., Marzi, G. D., Quinn, A. J., Redmond, G., Shevchenko, E. V. and Weller, H. (2004) 'Charge transport in a CoPt3 nanocrystal microwire', Applied Physics Letters, 85(23), pp. 5706-5708. doi: 10.1063/1.1830684
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© 2004 American Institute of Physics.This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. The following article appeared in Beecher, P., Marzi, G. D., Quinn, A. J., Redmond, G., Shevchenko, E. V. and Weller, H. (2004) 'Charge transport in a CoPt3 nanocrystal microwire', Applied Physics Letters, 85(23), pp. 5706-5708 and may be found at http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.1830684