Conductance quantization in v-groove quantum wires

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 16, 1999, Pages R10433-R10436

  Kaufman, D ^a   Berk, Y ^a   Dwir, B ^a   Rudra, A ^a   Palevski, A ^a   Kapon, E ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0000854228     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.R10433     Document Type: Article

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24. The depleted wire length is somewhat shorter than the gate length (Formula presented) Using numerical simulations of the V-groove electrostatics, we confirmed that this length difference does not change our results in a significant way, and it was taken into account when modeling the diffusive transport in the inset of Fig. 33.
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