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Immune to local heating

Nature Nanotechnology volume 9, pages 97–98 (2014)Cite this article

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Electronic transport in a nanodevice can be made insensitive to local heating by driving the device into strong non-equilibrium conditions.

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Figure 1: Electron transport in a quantum point contact.

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