Describes an undergraduate experiment on the quantized conductance of nanocontacts. The basic experiment may be performed with very little equipment beyond a digital oscilloscope. A method to explain quantized conductance to undergraduate students is also presented.
2012 AAPT Winter Meeting
Part of the Advanced Labs Workshop series
Ontario, CA:
February 4-8, 2012
<a href="http://www.compadre.org/advlabs/items/detail.cfm?ID=11721">Candela, D.. "Simple undergraduate lab experiment showing the quantized conductance of nanocontacts." Paper presented at the 2012 AAPT Winter Meeting, Ontario, CA, February 4-8, 2012.</a>
D. Candela, presented at the 2012 AAPT Winter Meeting, Ontario, CA, 2012, WWW Document, (http://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11721&DocID=2601).
D. Candela, Simple undergraduate lab experiment showing the quantized conductance of nanocontacts, presented at the 2012 AAPT Winter Meeting, Ontario, CA, 2012, <http://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11721&DocID=2601>.
Candela, D. (2012, February 4-8). Simple undergraduate lab experiment showing the quantized conductance of nanocontacts. Paper presented at 2012 AAPT Winter Meeting, Ontario, CA. Retrieved May 23, 2013, from http://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11721&DocID=2601
Candela, D.. "Simple undergraduate lab experiment showing the quantized conductance of nanocontacts." Paper presented at the 2012 AAPT Winter Meeting, Ontario, CA, February 4-8, 2012. http://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11721&DocID=2601 (accessed 23 May 2013).
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