An in situ tunable radio-frequency quantum point contact

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 20, 2010, Pages

  Muller T ^a   Kung B ^a   Hellmuller S ^a   Studerus, P ^a   Ensslin, K ^a   Ihn, T ^a   Reinwald, M ^b   Wegscheider, W ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE DETECTION; DETECTION SCHEME; FAST CHARGES; IN-SITU; LOW FREQUENCY; MATCHING CIRCUIT; QUANTUM CIRCUIT; QUANTUM POINT CONTACT; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SINGLE-ELECTRON TRANSISTOR CIRCUITS; VARIABLE CAPACITANCE DIODES;

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RESONANCE; SINGLE ELECTRON TRANSISTORS;

POINT CONTACTS;

EID: 78649255733     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3517483     Document Type: Article

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