title: Electron transport in Si nanochains/nanowires.
abstract: Electronic transport properties of a bundle of Si nanochains/nanowires were investigated. Si nanochains and nanowires were grown via a self-organized vapor-liquid-solid process and located on a pair of electrodes with a gap of several hundred nanometers. Unstable and a variety of current-voltage (I-V) characteristics were observed and some of those were Coulomb staircase-like. In addition, fluctuations which were seemingly random but partly and partially reproducible were observed in I-V curves of a parallel junction of a nanochain and a nanowire.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan. kohno@phys.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Hideo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kohno
authors.forename: Isamu
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kikuo
authors.forename: Kenichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Oto