Symmetry of Two-Terminal Nonlinear Electric Conduction

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 468031-468034

  Lofgren A ^a   Marlow, C A ^b   Shorubalko, I ^a   Taylor, R P ^b   Omling, P ^a   Samuelson, L ^a   Linke, H ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; GATES (TRANSISTOR); MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TENSORS;

CIRCUIT-INDUCED ASYMMETRY (CIA); CONDUCTANCE FLUCTUATIONS (CF);

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE;

EID: 1442355870     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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