Real-time detection of electron tunnelling in a quantum dot

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6938, 2003, Pages 422-425

  Lu, Wei ^a,d   Ji, Zhongqing ^a   Pfeiffer, Loren ^c   West, K W ^c   Rimberg, A J ^a,b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PROBABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ELECTRON DYNAMICS;

ELECTRON TUNNELING;

NANOPARTICLE;

PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

MUS;

EID: 0038823628     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01642     Document Type: Article

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