Multiple Andreev reflection in a carbon nanotube quantum dot

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 570051-570054

  Buitelaar, M R ^a,b   Belzig, W ^a   Nussbaumer, T ^a   Babic B ^a   Bruder, C ^a   Schonenberger C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ENERGY GAP; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

SUBHARMONIC GAPS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 0041416028     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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