Shot-noise: From Schottky's vacuum tube to present-day quantum devices

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5469, Issue , 2004, Pages 233-243

  Schönenberger, Christian ^a   Oberholzer, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Charge transport; Mesoscopic physics; Shot noise

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSPORT; MESOSCOPIC PHYSICS; QUANTUM DEVICES; SHOT-NOISE;

CHARGE TRANSFER; CORRELATION THEORY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRON TUBES; ELECTRONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES; RANDOM PROCESSES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

SHOT NOISE;

EID: 4344658780     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.544211     Document Type: Conference Paper

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