The effect of Coulomb blockade on resonant tunneling

Hocine Bahlouli

doi:10.1016/0375-9601(94)90544-4

The effect of Coulomb blockade on resonant tunneling

Hocine Bahlouli^*

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Department of Physics

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Abstract

The current-voltage characteristic and conductance of a tunnel junction containing a single impurity localized state in the barrier region are studied using the kinetic equation approach. It is shown that the presence of the on-site Coulomb interaction, U, gives rise to a step in the conductance G(V) when the applied voltage becomes close to U. When averaging over U is taken into account, this step-like behavior is smoothed out over the maximum range of the potential distribution.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	485-490
Number of pages	6
Journal	Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
Volume	193
Issue number	5-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0375-9601(94)90544-4
State	Published - 17 Oct 1994

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I wish to acknowledge useful comments by K.A. Matveev on the subject matter of this paper. I also wish to acknowledge the support provided by the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals during the progress of this work.

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