STUDIES OF SUBMICRON GOLD ISLANDS ON SILICON BY STM

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GHEBER, LA
GORODETSKY, G
VOLTERRA, V
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[1] Physics Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva
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10.1016/0040-6090(94)90637-8
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T [工业技术];
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The formation and electrical properties of discrete islands in discontinuous Au films on Si(111) were studied with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). Ohmic electrical contact between the STM tip and isolated gold islands was established and I-V characteristics of the Au-Si junctions were measured. A typical Schottky diode behaviour with ideality factor close to 1 was observed. The STM appears to be an appropriate probe for electrical measurements of nano-scale diodes.
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