Introduction to Coulomb Blockade Lab

By Bhaskaran Muralidharan1; Xufeng Wang1; Gerhard Klimeck1

1. Purdue University

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Abstract

The tutorial is based on the Coulomb Blockade Lab available online at Coulomb Blockade Lab. Students are introduced to the concepts of level broadening and charging energies in artificial atoms (single quantum dots) and molecules (coupled quantum dots).

A tutorial level introduction to the underlying theory can be found in chapters 5 and 6 of “Electron-Phonon and Electron-Electron Interactions in Quantum Transport”, Gerhard Klimeck, Ph.D. thesis, Purdue University, 1994.

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References

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[3] “Conductance Spectroscopy in Coupled Quantum Dots”, Gerhard Klimeck, Guanlong L. Chen and Supriyo Datta, Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 50, p.2316 (1994).

[4] “Elastic and Inelastic Scattering in Quantum Dots in the Coulomb Blockade Regime”, Gerhard Klimeck, Roger Lake, Supriyo Datta, and Garnett Bryant, Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 50, 5484 (1994).

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[7] “Current rectification by Pauli exclusion in a weakly coupled double quantum dot system”, K. Ono, D. G. Austing, Y. Tokura, and S. Tarucha, Science, 297, 1313, (2002).

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  • Bhaskaran Muralidharan, Xufeng Wang, Gerhard Klimeck (2008), "Introduction to Coulomb Blockade Lab," https://nanohub.org/resources/4231.

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