Current-voltage spectroscopy of the subband structure of strongly pinched-off quantum point contacts

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 23, 2009, Pages

  Song, J ^a   Kawano, Y ^b   Ishibashi, K ^b   Mikalopas, J ^c   Aizin, G R ^c   Aoki, N ^d   Reno, J L ^e   Ochiai, Y ^d   Bird, J P ^a,d  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE; GATE VOLTAGES; PINCHOFF; POTENTIAL DROP; QUANTUM POINT CONTACT; SUBBAND SPACING; SUBBAND STRUCTURES;

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

POINT CONTACTS;

EID: 71949129629     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3272677     Document Type: Article

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