Charge transport and current fluctuations in bacteriorhodopsin based nanodevices

Proceedings of the IEEE 21st International Conference on Noise and Fluctuations, ICNF 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 417-420

  Millithaler, J F ^a,b   Alfinito, E ^a,b   Reggiani, L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b CNISM   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED VOLTAGES; CURRENT FLUCTUATIONS; IV CHARACTERISTICS; LOW RESISTANCE; NANO-DEVICES; NON-GAUSSIAN; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SHARP INCREASE;

DIRECT INJECTION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 80052709161     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICNF.2011.5994358     Document Type: Conference Paper

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