Single electron on a nanodot in a double-barrier tunneling structure observed by noncontact atomic-force spectroscopy

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Azuma, Yasuo ^a   Kanehara, Masayuki ^b   Teranishi, Toshiharu ^b   Majima, Yutaka ^c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COULOMB BLOCKADE; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; VACUUM;

DOUBLE-BARRIER TUNNELING STRUCTURE; FREQUENCY SHIFT-VOLTAGE DEPENDENCE; QUANTIZED ELECTRONS;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 32644474190     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.016108     Document Type: Article

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