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Quantum Dot Nanodevice with Electron-Lattice Coupling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Karel Král
Karel Král*
Affiliation:
kral@fzu.cz, Institute of Physics, ASCR, v.v.i., Prague 8, Czech Republic
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Abstract

The electronic current-voltage characteristics of a nanotransistor is studied. The nanotransistor is assumed to consist of a quantum dot active region connected to the source and drain wires and also attached to a gate. The electric current is shown to be influenced by the coupling of electrons to the longitudinal optical phonons, namely, by the up-conversion of the electrons to the higher excited states in a quantum dot, due to a nonadiabatic effect of the lattice vibrations. In the nanotransistor with asymmetric source and drain contacts the up-conversion leads to a spontaneous electric current, or to a spontaneous voltage between the electrodes. We remind existing experiments which might be related to the effect considered.

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nanostructureelectron-phonon interactionselectrical properties

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