Towards the Fabrication and Characterization of a Nanomechanical Electron Shuttle

First proposed in the late 1990's, a nanomechanical electron shuttle is a device where an electrically isolated island moves a definite number of electrons between two leads, producing a current that is directly related to the number of electrons moved in a cycle and to the vibration frequency...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lucht, Benjamin
Other Authors: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Theses (Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.))
Format: Others
Language:en
en
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1974/5413