Spin-valley lifetimes in a silicon quantum dot with tunable valley splitting

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Yang, C H ^a   Rossi, A ^a   Ruskov, R ^b   Lai, N S ^a   Mohiyaddin, F A ^a   Lee, S ^c   Tahan, C ^b   Klimeck, G ^c   Morello, A ^a   Dzurak, A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DOT; SILICON;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ORIENTATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; MAGNETIC FIELD; SPIN VALLEY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THEORY; TUNABLE VALLEY SPLITTING;

EID: 84880839910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3069     Document Type: Article

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