Conductance regimes of W-based granular metals prepared by electron beam induced deposition

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Mar 2009

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New Journal of Physics, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp. 033032 (2009).

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We prepared a series of W-based granular metals by means of electron beam induced deposition from the carbonyl percursor W(CO)6. For samples with W-contents of 31.8(±1.4), 34.0(±1.7) and 36.9(±1.8) at%, we observed a modified power law dependence σ=σ0+bTβ of the electrical conductivity with β=0.47-0.58, which we found to be approximately fulfilled over the temperature range from about 2 to 265 K. Deviations from this modified power law are discussed. Existing theoretical approaches that can, in principle, account for power-law dependencies in σ(T) for homogeneously disordered or granular metals are reviewed and their relevance for explaining our data is critically examined. Firstly, if a percolating path is formed by touching metallic particles, the formation of a pseudo-gap at the Fermi level that follows a T1/2 temperature dependence according to Altshuler and Aronov may explain our data. However, the Altshuler-Aronov result is valid for weak Coulomb coupling and represents a small, low-temperature correction. Its applicability close to a metal-insulator transition is questionable. Secondly, we analyze whether an alternative transport mechanism may be at work that is based on the onset of large-scale coherent electron motion along a tunnel-percolation path in the limit of large inter-grain tunneling. Again, this approach cannot be unambiguously applied to explain our experimental findings.

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