Lateral electron tunneling through single self-assembled InAs quantum dots coupled to superconducting nanogap electrodes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Shibata, Kenji ^a   Buizert, Christo ^b   Oiwa, Akira ^b   Hirakawa, Kazuhiko ^a,b   Tarucha, Seigo ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COULOMB INTERACTIONS; DRAIN CURRENT; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TUNNELING; INDIUM ARSENIDE; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; SELF ASSEMBLY; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

COULOMB OSCILLATIONS; COULOMB STAIRCASES; JOSEPHSON CURRENT;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 34548700619     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2779970     Document Type: Article

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