We investigated the electronic properties of highly ordered three-dimensional colloidal crystals of gold nanocrystals (7 ± 0.4 nm), called supracrystals. Two kinds of Au supracrystals with typical thicknesses of 300 nm and 5 μm, respectively, are probed for the first time with scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy at 5 K revealing similar power law behavior and showing homogeneous conductance with the fingerprint of isolated nanocrystal. Potential applications evading the size-related risks of nanocrystals could be then considered.
Keywords:
Collective electronic properties; Coulomb blockade; Coulomb staircase; scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl3001925
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