Effect of electron-phonon scattering on shot noise in nanoscale junctions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 16, 2005, Pages

  Chen, Yu Chang ^a,b   Di Ventra, Massimiliano ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FANO FACTOR; INELASTIC SCATTERING; NANOSCALE JUNCTIONS; THERMAL ENERGY;

ELECTRODES; PHONONS; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SHOT NOISE; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ELECTRON SCATTERING;

EID: 28844438033     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.166802     Document Type: Article

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