Metal-Insulator Transition in Granular Aluminum
- 12 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 46 (2) , 137-140
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.46.137
Abstract
The metal-insulator transition in granular aluminum has been observed. The resistivity has been varied over six orders of magnitude from metallic to a material where the conduction is via variable-range hopping. As the transition is approached from the metallic side, tunneling measurements have shown a dependence of the density of states, in agreement with recent theories.
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