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Single-electron transport in small resonant-tunneling diodes with various barrier-thickness asymmetries
Single-electron transport in small resonant-tunneling diodes with various barrier-thickness asymmetries
- Source :
- Physical Review B. 55:2230-2236
- Publication Year :
- 1997
- Publisher :
- American Physical Society (APS), 1997.
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Abstract
- We fabricated submicrometer-diameter double-barrier diodes from four wafers with different barrier-thickness asymmetry. All samples exhibit staircaselike features in the current-voltage characteristic at the current threshold due to single-electron tunneling. Our study focuses on the properties of the first current step which arises from tunneling through the energetically lowest discrete electron state within the double-barrier region. The analysis of the bias position of the step allows a spatial spectroscopy of the vertical position of the lowest discrete level in the double-barrier region. The magnitude of the step is in excellent agreement with theory for all barrier-thickness asymmetries whereas the broadening of the step edge exceeds the lifetime-related width of the discrete state by one order of magnitude.
Details
- ISSN :
- 10953795 and 01631829
- Volume :
- 55
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physical Review B
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........41e280f3f7c1f5a84e1eeeff362db668
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.55.2230