title: Electronic transport in conducting polymer nanowire array devices.
abstract: We report on the temperature dependent conductivity and current-voltage (I-V) properties of novel polyaniline nanowire array devices. Below 60 K, I-V measurements show a transition to non-linear behaviour, leading to the onset at 30 K of a threshold voltage, for potentials below which little current flows. By considering an intrinsic morphology of small conducting regions separated by tunnel junctions, we show that charging of the conducting regions leads to Coulomb blockade effects that can account for this behaviour.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, The University of Hull, Kingston-upon-Hull HU6 7RX, UK. N.Kemp@hull.ac.uk
authors.forename: N T
authors.initials: NT
authors.lastname: Kemp
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Newbury
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Cochrane
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dujardin