Single grain heating due to inelastic cotunneling

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Glatz, Andreas ^a   Beloborodov, I S ^b  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77954769004     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.033408     Document Type: Article

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