Bidirectional counting of single electrons

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5780, 2006, Pages 1634-1636

  Fujisawa, Toshimasa ^a,b   Hayashi, Toshiaki ^a   Tomita, Ritsuya ^a,b   Hirayama, Yoshiro ^a,c,d  

^a NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; POINT CONTACTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SENSORS;

ANTIBUNCHING CORRELATION; ATTOAMPERE RANGE; CURRENT FLOW; SINGLE-ELECTRON COUNTING DEVICE;

ELECTRONS;

QUANTUM DOT;

ELECTRON; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SENSOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745154112     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1126788     Document Type: Article

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