Study of the limitations of the quantized acoustic current technique at PTB and NPL

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 594-598

  Ebbecke, Jens ^a   Fletcher, Nicholas E ^b   Ahlers, Franz Josef ^a   Hartland, Anthony ^b   Janssen, Theodoor J B M ^b  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electrons; Quantum dots; Quantum effect semiconductor devices; Surface acoustic waves (SAWs)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON GAS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TEMPERATURE;

COULOMB CHARGING ENERGY; QUANTIZED ACOUSTIC CURRENT; QUANTUM EFFECT SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0037899505     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2003.810036     Document Type: Article

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