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Dynamical Coulomb Blockade Observed in Nanosized Electrical Contacts

Wolf-Dieter Schneider, François Patthey, I-Po Hong

Electrical contacts between nanoengineered systems are expected to constitute the basic building blocks of future nanoscale electronics. However, the accurate characterization and understanding of electrical contacts at the nanoscale is an experimentally c ...

2012

Quantum size effects in ultrathin metallic islands : a scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy study

I-Po Hong

This thesis reports measurements concerning quantum size effects of single crystalline metallic islands by using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS). Different sample systems are presented in the following chapters. I ...

EPFL2009

Decay mechanisms of excited electrons in quantum-well states of ultrathin Pb islands grown on Si(111): Scanning tunneling spectroscopy and theory

Wolf-Dieter Schneider, François Patthey, I-Po Hong

Using low-temperature scanning tunneling spectroscopy at 5 and 50 K, we studied the linewidth of unoccupied quantum-well states in ultrathin Pb islands, grown on Si(111) on two different Pb/Si interfaces. A quantitative analysis of the differential conduct ...

2009

Reduction of the Superconducting Gap of Ultrathin Pb Islands Grown on Si(111)

Wolf-Dieter Schneider, François Patthey, I-Po Hong

The energy gap Delta of superconducting Pb islands grown on Si(111) was probed in situ between 5 and 60 monolayers by low-temperature scanning tunneling spectroscopy. Delta was found to decrease from its bulk value as a function of inverse island thickness ...

2009