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EPSRC Reference: GR/L59597/01
Title: ROPA: FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIATION OF NOVEL SINGLE ELECTRON DEVICES
Principal Investigator: Klipstein, Dr P
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Department: Oxford Physics
Organisation: University of Oxford
Scheme: ROPA
Starts: 01 August 1997 Ends: 31 July 1999 Value (£): 100,698
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Electronic Devices & Subsys.
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By reducing the area of semiconductor resonant tunnelling structures, new quantum mechanical processes become dominant and single electron behaviour can result eg Coulomb blockade and artificial atom effects. Fabrication methods will be developed for novel double well and interband tunnelling devices, so that new many body effects and tunnelling processes recently observed in these systems may be explored as a function of electron number. Lateral symmetry/shape effects in conventional double barrier devices will also be studied using a novel split gate arrangement. Potential applications include very low power/high density multi-value logic devices and memory cells, and modulated Thz radiation sources.
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