Microwave spectroscopy of a quantum-dot molecul

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6705, 1998, Pages 873-876

  Oosterkamp, T H ^a   Fujisawa, T ^a,b   Van Der Wiel, W G ^a   Ishibashi, K ^a,c   Hijman, R V ^a   Tarucha, S ^b   Kouwenhoven, L P ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

^c INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOM; COVALENT BOND; DEVICE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0032578908     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/27617     Document Type: Article

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