Probing confined phonon modes by transport through a nanowire double quantum dot

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Weber, C ^a   Fuhrer, A ^a,b   Fasth, C ^a   Lindwall, G ^a,c   Samuelson, L ^a   Wacker, A ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SWEREA KIMAB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFINED PHONONS; CURRENT RESPONSE; DOUBLE QUANTUM DOTS; ENERGY SPECTRA; EXPERIMENTAL PROBES; INELASTIC TRANSITIONS; PEAK STRUCTURE; PHONON SYSTEM; PIEZOELECTRIC COUPLINGS; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; QUANTUM DOT; RADIAL CONFINEMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; THEORETICAL MODELING;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHONONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SPECTROSCOPY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 74549191519     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.036801     Document Type: Article

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