In 2003, however, researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands who mounted single molecules of diarylethene
between gold electrodes found that, even though the switches could be turned off by visible light, they could not then be turned back on by ultraviolet.
Not exact matches
A voltage applied
between the
electrodes induced a type of electrical attraction
between the
gold pads and the metal rods, causing the rods to bridge adjacent
gold squares.
«The
gold particles on top of the substrate and
between the self - healing
electrodes are able to «heal» cracks that could completely disconnect electrical connectivity,» said Prof. Haick.
The cylinders will be sandwiched
between electrodes of
gold - plated silicon but also separated from them by thin spaces of vacuum — the test masses will float on the
electrodes» electrostatic field.
To do this, they «chemically assembled a series of double - dot SETs by anchoring two
gold nanoparticles
between the nanogap
electrodes with alkanedithiol molecules to form a self - assembled monolayer,» explained Yutaka Majima, a professor in the Materials and Structures Laboratory at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
At the annual meeting of the American Physical Society and in the 12 March issue of Physical Review Letters, Kociak and his colleagues at the French national research agency CNRS and the Russian Academy of Sciences in Chernogolovka showed that empty nanotubes can also carry electron pairs
between nonsuperconducting
electrodes (in this case, metal pads made from a sandwich of aluminum oxide, platinum, and
gold).
Electric current
between gold (Au)
electrodes is modulated by the deformation imposed by the wrinkles.
It contains layers of
gold electrodes just a few hundred nanometres thick, sandwiched
between layers of polyimide plastic to form a «nanomembrane».
The researchers placed particles of
gold ranging in diameter from 15 to 30 nanometers in a fluid suspension within a thin chamber located
between two
electrodes.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis have invented a new ultralow power technique to trap nanoparticles in the sub-10 nm gaps
between two
gold electrodes.
«In our new work, we made very long (up to millimetres) and ultra-narrow (less than 10 nm) gaps
between two
gold electrodes,» he says.