Optimal energy quanta to current conversion

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Sánchez, Rafael ^a   Büttiker, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

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EID: 79960994828     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.085428     Document Type: Article

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