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From droplets to devices

Nature Nanotechnology volume 4, pages 475–476 (2009)Cite this article

Single-electron behaviour has been observed in devices that can be made by simply trapping gold nanoparticles between two droplets of liquid metal.

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Figure 1: Making nanodevices with droplets of liquid metal.

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