Euler buckling instability and enhanced current blockade in suspended single-electron transistors

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Weick, Guillaume ^a   Von Oppen, Felix ^b   Pistolesi, Fabio ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UMR 5798   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

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EID: 79551648003     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.035420     Document Type: Article

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