Transport through a strongly coupled graphene quantum dot in perpendicular magnetic field

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Güttinger, Johannes ^a   Stampfer, Christoph ^a,b   Frey, Tobias ^a   Ihn, Thomas ^a   Ensslin, Klaus ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NANOCRYSTALS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SUPERCONDUCTING TAPES; SPECTROSCOPY;

CHARGING ENERGIES; COMPLEX PATTERN; COULOMB DIAMONDS; GRAPHENE CONTACTS; MEASUREMENTS OF; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC FIELDS; SOURCE AND DRAINS; TRANSPORT MEASUREMENTS; ENERGY SPECTRA; LANDAU LEVELS; LOCALIZED STATE; SINGLE LAYER;

GRAPHENE DEVICES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 84255189692     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-253     Document Type: Article

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