Influence of the lateral confining potential on the ballistic electron transport in a quantum wire

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 220, Issue 4-5, 1996, Pages 268-274

  Sheng, Wei Dong ^a   Xia, Jian Bai ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Ballistic transport; Confining potential; Quantum wire

Indexed keywords

BALLISTICS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; NANOWIRES; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES; TRANSMISSIONS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WIRE;

BALLISTIC ELECTRON TRANSPORT; BALLISTIC TRANSPORTS; COMPLICATED GEOMETRY; CONFINING POTENTIAL; ELECTRON TRANSMISSION; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS; TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENTS; TRANSMISSION PROFILES;

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 0347570210     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0375-9601(96)00474-4     Document Type: Article

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