Inelastic electron transport through mesoscopic systems: Heating versus cooling and sequential tunneling versus cotunneling processes

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Jiang, Feng ^a   Jin, Jinshuang ^b   Wang, Shikuan ^a   Yan, Yijing ^a,c  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

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EID: 84863299490     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.245427     Document Type: Article

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