Direct observation of electron dephasing due to inelastic scattering from defects in weakly disordered AuPd wires

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 20, 2010, Pages

  Zhong, Yuan Liang ^a   Sergeev, Andrei ^b   Chen, Chii Dong ^c   Lin, Juhn Jong ^d  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS AND IMPURITIES; DEPHASING PROCESS; DIRECT OBSERVATION; ELECTRON DEPHASING; ELECTRON PHONON; LOW TEMPERATURES; METALLIC CONDUCTOR; METALLIC STRUCTURES; QUADRATIC TEMPERATURE; RELAXATION RATES; TEMPERATURE RANGE;

DEFECTS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRONS; WIRE;

ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTIONS;

EID: 77953087278     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.206803     Document Type: Article

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