Hybrid superconductor-quantum dot devices

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 703-711

  De Franceschi, Silvano ^a   Kouwenhoven, Leo ^b   Schönenberger, Christian ^c   Wernsdorfer, Wolfgang ^d  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; NANOCRYSTALS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HYBRID DEVICES; MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM PHENOMENA; NANOFABRICATION TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM DOT DEVICES; SINGLE ELECTRON; SUPERCONDUCTING ELECTRODES; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOSTRUCTURES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

QUANTUM DOT;

ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; NANOANALYSIS; NANOFABRICATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMICONDUCTOR; SUPERCONDUCTOR;

EID: 77957892822     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2010.173     Document Type: Review

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