Spin filling of valley-orbit states in a silicon quantum dot

Nanotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 33, 2011, Pages

  Lim, W H ^a   Yang, C H ^a   Zwanenburg, F A ^a,b   Dzurak, A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITION ENERGY; FIRST EXCITED STATE; LOWER BOUNDS; METAL-OXIDE; NUMBER OF ELECTRONS; PARALLEL MAGNETIC FIELD; SILICON QUANTUM DOTS; SPIN-QUBITS; VALLEY SPLITTING;

LANDFORMS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

EID: 79961078487     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/22/33/335704     Document Type: Article

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