@inproceedings{1d1e82c9c549423dadf665fea3aa2aa7,
title = "Charge effect of an isolated Gold Nanoparticle embedded in High-k oxide",
abstract = "The electrical characteristics of a single gold nanoparticle (Au-NP) embedded in high-k oxide on an-type Si (n-Si) substrate has been experimentally investigated. The Au NPs are sandwiched between two layers of amorphous Al2O3 thin film, grown using atomic layer deposition (ALD) method to form both a blocking and tunneling layer for charge confinement. The current-voltage (I-V) measurements were performed using a conductive atomic force microscope (CAFM) with a metal-coated nano-probe placed on a single isolated NP at a time. The results demonstrated the presence of charge confinement in the Au-NP originated from the nano-probe during the voltage sweep. This is evident from the hysteretic behavior of the I-V curve during the increase and decrease of the applied positive voltage on the substrate.",
author = "A. Rezk and Y. Abbas and Irfan Saadat and A. Nayfeh and M. Rezeq",
note = "Funding Information: This publication is based on work supported by Khalifa University of Science and Technology under Award No. CIRA-2018-21 Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 IEEE.; 20th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, NANO 2020 ; Conference date: 29-07-2020 Through 31-07-2020",
year = "2020",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1109/NANO47656.2020.9183556",
language = "British English",
series = "Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "24--28",
booktitle = "NANO 2020 - 20th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, Proceedings",
address = "United States",
}