Shell-Tunneling Spectroscopy of the Single-Particle Energy Levels of Insulating Quantum Dots

Nano Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 551-556

  Bakkers, E P A M ^a   Hens, Z ^a   Zunger, A ^b   Franceschetti, A ^b   Kouwenhoven, L P ^c   Gurevich, L ^c   Vanmaekelbergh, D ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0009265415     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl015572b     Document Type: Article

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22. tip/dot/V = 0.90; this means that 90% of the bias is distributed over the tip-dot barrier. We should remark here that the derivation of the relative tunneling rates is exact, while the estimation of the tunneling distances and thus the ratio of the barrier capacitances depends (slightly) on the estimated barrier height.