Self-excitation in nanoelectromechanical charge shuttles below the field emission regime

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Ruting F ^a   Erbe, A ^b   Weiss, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CHARGE SHUTTLES; ELECTRON SHUTTLE; FIELD EMISSION; NANOELECTROMECHANICAL CHARGE;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 28144455243     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: 13672630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/7/1/240     Document Type: Article

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