Sequential tunneling and inelastic cotunneling in nanoparticle arrays
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T. B. Tran,1 I. S. Beloborodov,1,3 Jingshi Hu,1 X. M. Lin,4 T. F. Rosenbaum,1,2 and H. M. Jaeger1,2 1James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA 2Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA 3Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA 4Center of Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA Received 14 May 2008; published 26 August 2008
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