Progress in measurements of a single-electron pump by means of a CCC

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 599-603

  Feltin, Nicolas ^a   Devoille, Laurent ^a   Piquemal, F ^a   Lotkhov, S V ^b   Zorin, A B ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE MÉTROLOGIE ET D ESSAIS LNE   (France)

^b PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coulomb blockade; Cryogenic current comparator (CCC); Current measurement; R pump; Single electron tunneling (SET)

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; COMPARATOR CIRCUITS; CRYOGENIC EQUIPMENT; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; FREQUENCIES; RESISTORS; SQUIDS; TEMPERATURE;

COULOMB BLOCKAGE; CRYOGENIC CURRENT COMPARATOR; ELECTRON PUMP; SINGLE ELECTRON TUNNELING;

ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0038236916     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2003.810013     Document Type: Article

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