Electrons in artificial atoms

被引:1043
作者
Ashoori, RC
机构
[1] Department of Physics, 13-2053, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Cambridge
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10.1038/379413a0
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Progress in semiconductor technology has enabled the fabrication of structures so small that they can contain just one mobile electron. By varying controllably the number of electrons in these 'artificial atoms' and measuring the energy required to add successive electrons, one can conduct atomic physics experiments in a regime that is inaccessible to experiments on real atoms.
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页码:413 / 419
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