Fabrication of a single-electron inverter in multiwall carbon nanotubes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 3307-3309

  Ishibashi, K ^a   Tsuya, D ^a,b   Suzuki, M ^a   Aoyagi, Y ^a,c  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COULOMB BLOCKADE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FABRICATION; IRRADIATION; LOGIC DEVICES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

SINGLE-ELECTRON INVERTERS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0037981237     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1572537     Document Type: Article

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