Anomalous Coulomb diamonds and power-law behavior sensitive to back-gate voltages in carbon nanoscale peapod quantum dots

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Mizubayashi, J ^a,b   Haruyama, J ^a,b   Takesue, I ^a,b   Okazaki, T ^b,c   Shinohara, H ^b,d   Harada, Y ^b,e   Awano, Y ^b,e  

^a AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

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EID: 34347357561     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.205431     Document Type: Article

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