Super-Poissonian noise, negative differential conductance, and relaxation effects in transport through molecules, quantum dots, and nanotubes

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Thielmann, Axel ^a   Hettler, Matthias H ^a   König, Jürgen ^b   Schön, Gerd ^a,c  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EXCITATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NANOTUBE; NOISE; QUANTUM DOT; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE CHARGE;

EID: 15744401410     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.045341     Document Type: Article

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