Importance of backscattering effects in ballistic quantum transport in mesoscopic ring structures

ETRI Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 301-313

  Shin, Mincheol ^a,b,c   Park, Kyoung Wan ^a,c,d,e,f   Lee, Seongjae ^a,b,d,g   Lee, El Hang ^h  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ETRI

^d Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^e NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

^g Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^h Electronics and Telecom Res Inst ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTROSTATICS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; OSCILLATIONS;

BALLISTIC QUANTUM TRANSPORT; ELECTROSTATIC AHARONOV-BOHM EFFECT; MESOSCOPIC RING STRUCTURES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0030835186     PISSN: 12256463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4218/etrij.97.0197.0046     Document Type: Article

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