Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, Vol.28, No.3, 617-622, 2010
Submicron organic nanofiber devices with different anode-cathode materials: A simple approach
The authors present a simple general method for simultaneously producing tens of submicron electrode gaps with different cathode and anode materials on top of nanofibers, nanowires, and nanotubes, with an optional gap size variation. Using this method, an ensemble of para-hexaphenylene (p6P) nanofiber devices of different length was fabricated with Sm and Au electrodes. The measured I-V characteristics are in agreement with a nonlinear hopping transport model, where domain barriers dominate the transport with an estimated domain size of 23 +/- 5 nm. (C) 2010 American Vacuum Society. [DOI: 10.1116/1.3431088]