Finite Size Effects in Platinum-group Metal Nanostructures KU Leuven
Conductivity of nanostructures differ significantly from the bulk. One such manifestation is the resistivity scaling where the resistivity of metallic nanostructures increases drastically when the characteristic dimensions are reduced to the order of the carrier mean free path and is due to the additional scattering contributions from the interfaces and the grain boundaries. Though this phenomenon has been known for several decades, there is ...