Valleya-spin blockade and spin resonance in carbon nanotubes

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 630-634

  Pei, Fei ^a   Laird, Edward A ^a   Steele, Gary A ^a   Kouwenhoven, Leo P ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; LANDFORMS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; NANOCRYSTALS; QUBITS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; YARN;

CONFINEMENT POTENTIAL; DECOHERENCE RATES; ELECTRONIC BAND STRUCTURE; ENERGY DIFFERENCES; FABRICATION METHOD; SINGLE ELECTRON SPIN; SPATIAL CONFINEMENT; STAMPING TECHNIQUE;

ELECTROSPINNING;

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBE; QUANTUM DOT; SILICON;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOSPECTROSCOPY; MATERIALS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

NANOTUBES, CARBON; QUANTUM DOTS; SILICON;

EID: 84871074721     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2012.160     Document Type: Article

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