Nanometre-scale displacement sensing using a single electron transistor

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6946, 2003, Pages 291-293

  Knobel, Robert G ^a,b   Cleland, Andrew N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENICS; ELECTRONS; GROUND STATE; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); QUANTUM THEORY;

SINGLE ELECTRON TRANSISTOR (SET);

TRANSISTORS;

NANOPARTICLE;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; ELECTRON BEAM; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE;

HELIOTHIS ZEA VIRUS 1;

EID: 0042593381     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01773     Document Type: Article

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