Impact of small-angle scattering on ballistic transport in quantum dots

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  See, A M ^a   Pilgrim, I ^b   Scannell, B C ^b   Montgomery, R D ^b   Klochan, O ^a   Burke, A M ^a   Aagesen, M ^c   Lindelof, P E ^c   Farrer, I ^d   Ritchie, D A ^d   Taylor, R P ^b   Hamilton, A R ^a   Micolich, A P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLISTIC TRANSPORTS; ELECTRON DYNAMICS; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; HIGH FIDELITY; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; IONIZED DOPANTS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SMALL-ANGLE SCATTERING; UNPREDICTABLE CHANGES;

BALLISTICS; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84861017318     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.196807     Document Type: Article

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