Silicon Nanoelectronics Workshop (SNW)

Manipulation of silicon quantum dots and isolated structures using GHz photons

T. Ferrus, Alessandro Rossi, Tetsuo Kodera, Tomohiro Kambara, Shunri Oda, D. A. Williams

Published Jun 1, 2014• 0 citations

Abstract

We demonstrate that microwave photons can be used to remotely manipulate electron tunneling across a tunnel barrier at 4.2 K. A similar method is used to successfully modify the charges states of an electrically isolated doped silicon double quantum dot with potential coherence time of the order of a few μs.

DOI: 10.1109/snw.2014.7348584

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