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Copyright 2004 by Marcel Dekker, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Figure 13 Illustration of a two-terminal Coulomb blockade device with a metalnanoparticle separated from electrical leads <strong>by</strong> insulating barriers. Because of thesmall capacitance of the system, the nearest state accessible for charge tunneling ise 2 /2C away from the Fermi level of the dot.blockade regime, disorder in one- and two-dimensional arrays of metallicdots would lead to an additional voltage threshold for conductivity, V T , withabove-threshold current, I, scaling as a power law with voltage, V [23]:IfðV=V T 1Þ f ð18Þwhere f is an exponent that depends on the dimensionality of the array.Initially observed in arrays of lithographically patterned A1 dots [92], thresholdbehavior and power-law scaling have also been observed in arrays ofchemically synthesized Co particles [93].Following the ready availability of size-selected, thiol-capped Au nanocrystals[94], several groups have investigated transport in solids and filmscomposed of size-selected gold clusters spaced <strong>by</strong> monolayers of organic ligands[95–100]. These monolayer-protected clusters can be dried to produce2-D arrays, thin films, or pellets for electrical measurements in a number ofconfigurations. For a variety of ligands, ranging from alkane [95] and ayr1 [98]<strong>Copyright</strong> <strong>2004</strong> <strong>by</strong> <strong>Marcel</strong> <strong>Dekker</strong>, <strong>Inc</strong>. <strong>All</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>Reserved</strong>.

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