Current through a single atom

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 2219-2221

  Yamaguchi, F ^a   Yamamoto, Y ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Resonant tunnelling devices; Scanning tunnelling spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

COULOMB BLOCKADE; ELECTROSTATIC CHARGING ENERGY; PAULI EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE; RESONANT TUNNELING DEVICES;

ELECTRIC CURRENTS;

EID: 0030287936     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19961498     Document Type: Article

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