Formalism of nonlinear transport in mesoscopic conductors

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 9806-9809

  Song, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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EID: 0000034227     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.9806     Document Type: Article

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22. Like the case of modeling the quenched Hall effect (Ref. 14), only classical billiard scattering is considered in the present model, i.e., assuming that the lateral confinement in the S and D channels is not strong enough for the wave nature of the carriers to dominate the transport. This is also supported by the experiment result, which showed that the device even worked at 77 K (Ref. 12).
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