Coulomb blockade in a coupled nanomechanical electron shuttle

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 651-655

  Kim, Chulki ^a   Prada, Marta ^a,b   Blick, Robert H ^a  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coulomb blockade; coupled pendula; electron shuttling; nanopillars

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SHUTTLE; ELECTRON SHUTTLING; METROLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; NANOPILLARS; PENDULA; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE; SINGLE ELECTRON;

COULOMB BLOCKADE;

ELECTRONS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTOR; STATIC ELECTRICITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICRO-ELECTRICAL-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTORS; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84856183549     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn204103m     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Tinkham, M. I. Introduction to Superconductivity; McGraw-Hill: New York, 1996.
2. Leuzzi, L.; Conti, C.; Folli, V.; Angelani, L.; Ruocco, G. Phase Diagram and Complexity of Mode-Locked Lasers: From Order to Disorder Phys. Rev. Lett. 2009, 102, 083901-083905
3. Chang, P.; Yamagata, T.; Schopf, P.; Behera, S. K.; Carton, J.; Kessler, W. S.; Meyers, G.; Qu, T.; Schott, F.; Shetye, S.; Xie, S. - P. et al. Climate Fluctuations of Tropical Coupled Systems-The Role of Ocean Dynamics J. Climate 2006, 19, 5122-5174
4. Han, K. H.; Postnov, D. E. Chaotic Bursting as Chaotic Itinerancy in Coupled Neural Oscillators Chaos 2003, 13, 1105-1110
5. Blick, R. H.; Erbe, A.; Pescini, L.; Kraus., A.; Scheible, D. V.; Beil, F. W.; Hoehberger, E.; Hoerner, A.; Kirschbaum, J.; Lorenz, H. et al. Nanostructured Silicon for Studying Fundamental Aspects of Nanomechanics J. Phys. Condens. Matter 2002, 14, R905-R945
6. Blencowe, M. Nanomechanical Quantum Limits Science 2004, 304, 56-57
7. Roukes, M. L. Nanoelectromechanical Systems Face the Future Phys. World 2001, 14, 25-32
8. Craighead, H. G. Nanoelectromechanical Systems Science 2000, 290, 1532-1535
9. Cleland, A. N. Foundations of Nanomechanics; Springer: New York, 2002.
10. Erbe, A.; Weiss, C.; Zwerger, W.; Blick, R. H. Nanomechanical Resonator Shuttling Single Electrons at Radio Frequencies Phys. Rev. Lett. 2001, 87, 096106-096109
11. Scheible, D. V.; Weiss, C.; Kotthaus, J. P.; Blick, R. H. Periodic Field Emission from an Isolated Nanoscale Electron Island Phys. Rev. Lett. 2004, 93, 186801-186804
12. Koenig, D.; Weig, E. M.; Kotthaus, J. P. Ultrasonically Driven Nanomechanical Single-Electron Shuttle Nat. Nanotechnol. 2008, 3, 482-489
13. Scheible, D. V.; Blick, R. H. Silicon Nanopillars for Mechanical Single-Electron Transport Appl. Phys. Lett. 2004, 84, 4632-4634
14. Kim, H. S.; Qin, H.; Blick, R. H. Direct Mechanical Mixing in a Nanoelectromechanical Diode Appl. Phys. Lett. 2007, 91, 143101-143103
15. Kim, H. S.; Qin, H.; Blick, R. H. Self-Excitation of Single Nanomechanical Pillars New J. Phys. 2010, 12, 033008-033010
16. Gorelik, L. Y.; Isacsson, A.; Voinova, M. V.; Kasemo, B.; Shekhter, R. I.; Jonson, M. Shuttle Mechanism for Charge Transfer in Coulomb Blockade Nanostructures Phys. Rev. Lett. 1998, 80, 4526-4529
17. Shekhter, R. I.; Gorelik, L. Y.; Jonson, M.; Galperin, Y. M.; Vinokur, V. M. Nanomechanical Shuttle Transfer of Electrons J. Comput. Theor. Nanosci. 2007, 4, 860-895
18. Weiss, C.; Zwerger, W. Accuracy of a Mechanical Single-Electron Shuttle Europhys. Lett. 1999, 47, 97-103
19. Geerligs, L. J.; Anderegg, V. F.; Holweg, P. A. M.; Mooij, J. E. Frequency-Locked Turnstile Device for Single Electrons Phys. Rev. Lett. 1990, 64, 2691-2694
20. Kim, C.; Park, J.; Blick, R. H. Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Two Coupled Nanomechanical Electron Shuttles Phys. Rev. Lett. 2010, 105, 067204-067207
21. Holleitner, A. W.; Blick, R. H.; Hüttel, A. K. H.; Eberl, K.; Kotthaus, J. P. Probing and Controlling the Bonds of an Artificial Molecule Science 2002, 297, 70-72
22. Azuma., Y.; Hatanaka, T.; Kanehara, M.; Teranishi, T.; Chorley, S.; Prance, J.; Smith, C. G.; Majima., Y. One by One Single-Electron Transport in Nanomechanical Coulomb Blockade Shuttle Appl. Phys. Lett. 2007, 91, 053120-053122
23. Azuma, Y.; Kanehara, M.; Teranishi, T.; Majima, Y. Single Electron on a Nanodot in a Double-Barrier Tunneling Structure Observed by Noncontact Atomic-Force Spectroscopy Phys. Rev. Lett. 2006, 96, 016108-016111
24. Wilkins, R.; Ben-Jacob, E.; Jaklevic, R. C. Scanning-Tunneling-Microscope Observations of Coulomb Blockade and Oxide Polarization in Small Metal Droplets Phys. Rev. Lett. 1989, 63, 801-803
25. Ahn, K.-H.; Park, H. C.; Wiersig, J.; Hong, J. Current Rectification by Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Coupled Nanomechanical Shuttles Phys. Rev. Lett. 2006, 97, 216804-216807
26. Grabert, H.; Devoret, M. H. Single Charge Tunneling: Coulomb Blockade Phenomena in Nanostructures; Plenum: New York, 1992.
27. Weldon, J. A.; Aleman, B.; Sussman, A.; Gannett, W.; Zettl, A. K. Sustained Mechanical Self-Oscillations in Carbon Nanotubes Nano Lett. 2010, 10, 1728-1733