Affiliation:
1. U.S. Army Research Laboratory, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, MD 20783, USA
Abstract
In the mid 1980s Averin and Likharev predicted that with the use of ultrasmall tunnel junctions a time correlation of electron flow through a junction could be observed, and permit the measurement of the effect of a net charge of less than one electron on the junction. Both effects were soon experimentally verified, and since that time there has been an explosion of work in the filed of single electron devices. This chapter reviews the fundamental concepts behind the operation of such devices. it then describes some of the single electron effects studied in semiconductors. Superconducting devices are then constrasted to the semiconductor and the normal metal single electron devices. The details of some current applications are described, and a thumbnail sketch of current fabrication methods is given.
Publisher
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Hardware and Architecture,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Cited by
3 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献
1. Signal Processing for Particle Detectors;Particle Physics Reference Library;2020
2. Signal Processing for Particle Detectors;Detectors for Particles and Radiation. Part 1: Principles and Methods;2011
3. Silicon Devices and Circuits;Low Temperature Electronics;2001