Granular Effect on Electron Conduction in Discontinuous Metal Films

Juhn Jong Lin; Zhi Qing Li; Chih Yuan Wu; Sheng Shiuan Yeh

doi:10.1002/pssb.202200346

Granular Effect on Electron Conduction in Discontinuous Metal Films

Juhn Jong Lin^*, Zhi Qing Li, Chih Yuan Wu, Sheng Shiuan Yeh

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Abstract

The seminal work by Dolan and Osheroff [Phys. Rev. Lett. 43, 721 (1979)], which reported anomalous low-temperature conduction of high-resistivity thin-film metal strips is reanalyzed. It is argued that the observed logarithmic increase of resistance with decreasing temperature in their 3 nm thick Au–Pd strips can be ascribed to the granularity effect on electron conduction in discontinuous metal films. This reanalysis is further supported by the measurements on conducting Pb_x(SiO₂)_1−x nanogranular films, where x is the volume fraction of Pb.

Original language	English
Journal	Physica Status Solidi (B) Basic Research
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/pssb.202200346
State	Accepted/In press - 2022

Keywords

electrical transport
electron–electron interaction
granular metals
metal–insulator transition
quantum correction
weak-localization effect

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