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Collective amplification of nearby nanoparticles in the Coulomb blockade restricted charging of a single nanoparticle

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The characterization of charges in oxide supported metal nanoparticles (NP) is of high interest in research fields like heterogeneous catalysis and microelectronics. A general desire is to manipulate the charge of an oxide supported single NP and to characterize afterwards the charge and its interference with the insulating support but also with nearby NPs in the vicinity. By using noncontact AFM (nc-AFM) and Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) in ultra-high vacuum (UHV) and at room temperature we show that a ~5 nm small AuNP can be directly charged with electrons by the AFM tip and that upon the charging, nearby AuNPs sensitively change their electrostatic potential with a large impact on the charge detection by nc-AFM and KPFM. The AuNPs are supported on a 40 nm thick insulating Al 2 O 3 film, which is grown by atomic layer deposition (ALD) on Si(001). Due to Coulomb blockades, the NP charging appears in the form of large and discrete peaks in detuning versus bias voltage curves. Finite element method (FEM) calculations reveal that the large peaks can only be observed when the potentials of nearby insulated NPs get modified by the NP's electron charge, according to the electrostatic induction principle. In view of the number of transferred electrons, we anticipate that after the charging, the electrons are transferred from the AuNP to the NP-Al 2 O 3 interface or into Al 2 O 3 subsurface regions directly underneath.
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hal-03427049 , version 1 (12-11-2021)

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Baptiste Chatelain, Ali El Barraj, Clémence Badie, Lionel Santinacci, Clemens Barth. Collective amplification of nearby nanoparticles in the Coulomb blockade restricted charging of a single nanoparticle. New Journal of Physics, 2021, ⟨10.1088/1367-2630/ac38cb⟩. ⟨hal-03427049⟩
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