Electron cotunneling in a semiconductor quantum dot

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 878-881

  De Franceschi, S ^a   Sasaki, S ^b   Elzerman, J M ^a   Van Der Wiel, W G ^a   Tarucha, S ^b,c   Kouwenhoven, L P ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRON TUNNELING; FERMI LEVEL; GROUND STATE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COTUNNELING PROCESSES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 0035134485     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.878     Document Type: Article

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