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Electronic devices:  Single electrons in silicon drops

D. Christian Glattli1

More than 80 years after Millikan's oil-drop experiment1 establishing the quantization of the electric charge, there is an intense renewal of interest in charge-quantization effects at room temperature — but this time in tiny submicrometre conductors rather than in oil droplets. Why?

  1. D. Christian Glattli is in the Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé, CEA Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
    e-mail: Email: cglattli@spec.saclay.cea.fr