Hierarchical energy relaxation in mesoscopic tunnel junctions: Effect of a nonequilibrium environment on low-temperature transport

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 24, 2009, Pages

  Chtchelkatchev, N M ^a,b   Vinokur, V M ^a   Baturina, T I ^a,c  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED BIAS; CO-TUNNELING; CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURE; ELECTRON HOLE; ELECTRON PHONON; ENERGY RELAXATION; EQUILIBRIUM TRANSPORT; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; LONG-RANGE COULOMB INTERACTION; LOW TEMPERATURES; LOWER BOUNDS; MESOSCOPICS; NON EQUILIBRIUM; TUNNELING CURRENT;

CHARGE TRANSFER; CONTROL THEORY; ELECTRON-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS; ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTIONS; ELECTRONS; ION EXCHANGE; TEMPERATURE; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; WIND TUNNELS;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 72049128337     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.247003     Document Type: Article

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