Electronic charge, effect

Electronic Charge Effects. Alterations in chemical and physical variables of the coacervate system change its characteristics. By characterization of the coacervate systems, and then manipulation of these variables, their action can be oriented in the desired direction. 

Although, the number of bridging nanopartides and the location of the chains varied from device to device, in general the electron conduction was dominated by electron-charging effects, as indicated by Coulomb gap formation. The 1(V) char-... 

Fig. V-1. Variation of m / o and n /wo with distance for = 51.38 mV and 0.01 M uni-univalent electrolyte solution at 23°C. The areas under the full lines give an excess of 0.90 X 10 mol of anions in a column of solution of 1-cm cross section and a deficiency of 0.32 x 10 mol of cations. There is, correspondingly, a compensating positive surface charge of 1.22 x 10 " mol of electronic charge per cm. The dashed line indicates the effect of recognizing a finite ion size.

Due to thermal effects such devices must operate at temperatures well below the electron charging energy of 2C. With state-of-the-art fabrication technology, the capacitance is typically of the order 10 F, which requires temperatures below 1 K. Even with further miniaturisation, it is unlikely that these devices will be feasible at room temperature. Even so, there has been work in modeling this type of device for use in digital circuits (73). 

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