Low-noise photon counting with a radio-frequency quantum-dot field-effect transistor

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 419-421

  Kardynal B E ^a   Shields, A J ^a   Beattie, N S ^b   Farrer, I ^b   Cooper, K ^b   Ritchie, D A ^b  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS AMPLIFIERS; CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; ETCHING; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; LASER PULSES; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SELF ASSEMBLY; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

PHOTON COUNTING; QUANTUM-DOT FIELD EFFECT TRANSITORS (QDFET); SOURCE-DRAIN CURRENT;

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

EID: 1242332756     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1639936     Document Type: Article

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