Active control of the surface potential of nanostructured layers

Abstract

The objective of this letter is to show the first results obtained with a control designed to keep the average surface potential of a nanostructured layerconstant. This condition is equivalent to keeping constant the resistivity of the layer measured at a constant reference temperature. The proposed closed-loop control achieves this objective by adequately changing the average temperature of the temperature waveforms applied to the nanostructured layer. Experiments are shown on which the control is applied to a layer made of Au-functionalized WO3 nanoneedles.