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Shuttle transport for single electrons

Nature Nanotechnology volume 6, pages 691–692 (2011)Cite this article

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A surface acoustic wave can be used to remove a single electron from a quantum dot, drag it along a nanowire, and deposit it in a second quantum dot.

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Figure 1: The potential-energy landscape seen by an electron in the experiment by Ford and co-workers2.

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  1. Markus Kindermann is in the School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA,

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Kindermann, M. Shuttle transport for single electrons. Nature Nanotech 6, 691–692 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2011.194

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