@article{oai:uec.repo.nii.ac.jp:00009370,
 author = {Yagai, Tomoki and Matsumoto, Kazuhiko and Moribayashi, Makoto and Moriya, Masataka and Shimada, Hiroshi and Hirano-Iwata, Ayumi and Hirose, Fumihiko and Mizugaki, Yoshinao},
 issue = {SD},
 journal = {Japanese Journal of Applied Physics},
 month = {Jun},
 note = {Small tunnel junctions using gold nanoparticles (GNPs) as electrodes have been studied to fabricate single-electron devices. GNPs connected via dithiol molecules have been used as small tunnel junctions, and a two-stage dispersion method was used to fabricate dithiol-connected GNP arrays. In this process, the GNPs were fixed on silane-treated substrates by immersing the substrate in a colloidal gold solution. For fabricating dithiol-connected arrays, the inter-particle distance of the dispersed GNPs must be smaller than the GNP diameter. Consequently, the inter-particle distance controlled by the immersion time (T IM1) was evaluated. For T IM1 values exceeding 8 h, the inter-particle distance was less than the GNP diameter. A second dispersion of GNPs after treating samples with dithiol realized particle connections. For the GNP arrays produced with T IM1 values greater than 8 h, the I–V characteristics were measured at 77 K, and the yield of devices exhibiting nonlinear I–V curves was 23%.},
 pages = {SDDF09-1--SDDF09-6},
 title = {Evaluation of the inter-particle distance of gold nanoparticles dispersed on silane-treated substrates to fabricate dithiol-connected arrays},
 volume = {58},
 year = {2019}
}