h/e magnetic flux modulation of the energy gap in nanotube quantum dots

Science

Volumn 304, Issue 5674, 2004, Pages 1132-1134

  Coskun, Ulas C ^a   Wei, Tzu Chieh ^a   Vishveshwara, Smitha ^a   Goldbart, Paul M ^a   Bezryadin, Alexey ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FLUX; NANOTUBES; TRANSISTORS;

ELECTRONIC ENERGY; ENERGY GAPS; MULTIWALL NANOTUBES; SINGLE-ELECTRON-TUNNELING (SET) TRANSISTORS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; QUANTUM DOT;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; ELECTRONICS; ENERGY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 2442651412     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1096647     Document Type: Article

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