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IT has been suggested1,2 that the electric properties of small enough metallic particles will differ in important ways from those of the bulk material. To test such properties Kreibig and Fragstein3 made nearly spherical silver particles of given radius R, with 30 Å < 2R < 500 Å. This article is concerned with the prediction of new effects which would be observed if particles of similar size consisting of doped and possibly amorphous semiconductors could be produced. The theoretical and experimental background is discussed by Mott and Davis4.
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LUKES, T. Possible new effects in solid state physics. Nature 249, 135 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/249135a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/249135a0
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