Anomalous negative differential conductance in nanomechanical double barrier tunneling structures

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Majima, Yutaka ^a   Azuma, Yasuo ^b   Nagano, Kouhei ^b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; MODULATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SCANNING;

NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL CONDUCTANCE (NDC); TUNNELING STRUCTURE;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE;

EID: 28344434713     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2077863     Document Type: Article

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