Shot noise suppression at room temperature in atomic-scale Au junctions

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1287-1292

  Wheeler, P J ^a   Russom, J N ^a   Evans, K ^b   King, N S ^a   Natelson, D ^a,b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conductance quantization; Fano factor; Landauer Buttiker; Point contact; Shot noise

Indexed keywords

1/F NOISE; AMBIENT CONDITIONS; ATOMIC SCALE; CONDUCTANCE HISTOGRAMS; CONDUCTANCE QUANTIZATION; CONDUCTANCE QUANTUM; CONDUCTANCE VALUES; CONTACT REGIONS; CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT MEASUREMENTS; FANO FACTOR; HIGH-FREQUENCY TECHNIQUES; LANDAUER; LANDAUER-BUTTIKER; LOCAL HEATING; METAL JUNCTIONS; NANO-DEVICES; NOISE DATA; NOISE SUPPRESSION; QUANTUM CHANNEL; QUANTUM CHARACTER; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SHOT NOISE SUPPRESSION;

POINT CONTACTS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SHOT NOISE;

ATOMS;

GOLD;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; TEMPERATURE;

GOLD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77951027449     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl904052r     Document Type: Article

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