News tagged with tunnel barrier
Research team devises a means for measuring quantum tunneling time
(Phys.org) -- In a bit of inspired research, a diverse team of researchers has devised a means for measuring the time it takes for an electron to tunnel through a barrier. Led by Israel's Weizmann Institute ...
May 18, 2012 |
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Physicists Detect Single-Electron Tunneling with Quantum Dots
(PhysOrg.com) -- Detecting the coherent motion of a single electron is a challenge, for the simple reason of scale: the timescale of the coherent motion of a single-electron wave function is in the picosecond ...
May 06, 2009 |
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Researchers discover a potential on-off switch for nanoelectronics
As electronic circuits shrink from finely etched lines in silicon wafers to nearly elusive proportions, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Columbia University ...
Mar 03, 2009 |
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