Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Article number | 053120 |
---|---|
<mark>Journal publication date</mark> | 30/07/2007 |
<mark>Journal</mark> | Applied Physics Letters |
Issue number | 5 |
Volume | 91 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Pages (from-to) | - |
Publication Status | Published |
<mark>Original language</mark> | English |
Transport of electrons through a Au nanodot has been observed under a nanomechanical vibration of a Au nanodot on cantilever that consists of scanning tunneling microscopy probe/vacuum/Au nanodot/cantilever. In the probe tunneling current-distance characteristics, a constant probe current of 2ef has been observed as a plateau region, where f is an eigenfrequency of the cantilever of 86 MHz. The authors discuss this quantized tunneling current in relation to one by one single-electron transport per cycle of operation in nanomechanical Coulomb blockade shuttle.