Single-electron heat diode: Asymmetric heat transport between electronic reservoirs through Coulomb islands

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 24, 2011, Pages

  Ruokola, Tomi ^a   Ojanen, Teemu ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

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EID: 79961235638     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.241404     Document Type: Article

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