title: Is ballistic transportation or quantum confinement responsible for changes in the electrical properties of thin polymer films?
abstract: Resistivities of thin polymer films increase abruptly with decreasing thickness, although the corresponding decline in resistance plateaus below a certain thickness. One can jump to the incorrect conclusion that quantum confinement and surface scattering are responsible for this behaviour, and we highlight the pitfalls of committing such an error.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia 6109, Australia.
authors.forename: Jean-Pierre
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Veder
authors.forename: Kunal
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Junqiao
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Muhammad Tanzirul
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Alam
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: James
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.forename: Roland
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: De Marco
mesh_terms: D004579:Electron Transport; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*; D019904:Polymethyl Methacrylate / Q000737:chemistry; D011789:Quantum Theory; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D011108:Polymers; D019904:Polymethyl Methacrylate