El control de la puerta local de un nanotubo de carbono con doble punto cuántico

N Mason1, M J Biercuk, C M Marcus

  • 1Department of Physics, Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. nmason@fas.harvard.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|January 31, 2004
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores controlaron las interacciones de los electrones en puntos cuánticos de nanotubos de carbono utilizando múltiples puertas. Este control preciso sobre los puntos cuánticos es clave para el desarrollo de conductores moleculares y el avance de la computación cuántica.

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