One by one single-electron transport in nanomechanical Coulomb blockade shuttle

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Azuma, Yasuo ^a,e   Hatanaka, Teruyoshi ^a   Kanehara, Masayuki ^b   Teranishi, Toshiharu ^b   Chorley, Simon ^c   Prance, Jonathan ^c   Smith, Charles G ^c   Majima, Yutaka ^a,d  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANTILEVER BEAMS; COULOMB BLOCKADE; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GOLD; NANOMECHANICS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

CURRENT-DISTANCE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; NANODOTS; PROBE CURRENTS;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 34547679665     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2768026     Document Type: Article

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