High-efficiency Cooper pair splitting demonstrated by two-particle conductance resonance and positive noise cross-correlation

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Das, Anindya ^a   Ronen, Yuval ^a   Heiblum, Moty ^a   Mahalu, Diana ^a   Kretinin, Andrey V ^a   Shtrikman, Hadas ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; NANOWIRE; QUANTUM DOT;

ALUMINUM; NOISE; RESONANCE; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRON; IMPEDANCE; NANOFABRICATION; NOISE MEASUREMENT; SUPERCONDUCTOR;

EID: 84869406151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2169     Document Type: Article

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