Strongly enhanced shot noise in chains of quantum dots

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Aghassi, Jasmin ^a   Thielmann, Axel ^b   Hettler, Matthias H ^a   Schön, Gerd ^a,b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ELECTROSTATICS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; SHOT NOISE;

INTERDOT HOPPING; METALLIC ELECTRODES; SUPER-POISSONIAN; TUNNELING THRESHOLD;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 33748467466     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2260827     Document Type: Article

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