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Nature Materials 6, 551 - 552 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nmat1969
Nanoparticle assemblies: Interfaces behaving well
Brian A. Korgel1
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Brian A. Korgel is in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology, Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
e-mail: korgel@mail.che.utexas.edu
Abstract
Interfaces between gold nanoparticle films and semiconductor substrates are found to behave like nearly ideal Schottky diodes. Moreover, the detailed electronic structure of the interfaces can be tuned by electrochemical charge-transfer.
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