Effects of breathing and oblong mode phonons on transport properties in a single-electron transistor

Norihiko Nishiguchi1, Martin N Wybourne

  • 1Department of Applied Physics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8628, Japan. nn@eng.hokudai.ac.jp

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