Wednesday, September 12, 2012

1209.2241 (Yehonadav Bekenstein et al.)

Periodic negative differential conductance in a single metallic
nano-cage
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Yehonadav Bekenstein, Kathy Vinokurov, Tal J. Levy, Eran Rabani, Uri Banin, Oded Millo
We report a bi-polar multiple periodic negative differential conductance (NDC) effect on a single cage-shaped Ru nanoparticle measured using scanning tunneling spectroscopy. This phenomenon is assigned to the unique multiply-connected cage architecture providing two (or more) defined routes for charge flow through the cage. This, in turn, promotes a self- gating effect, where electron charging of one route affects charge transport along a neighboring channel, yielding a series of periodic NDC peaks. This picture is established and analyzed here by a theoretical model.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2241

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