Experiments shows that the conductance of a quantum point contact is quantized in steps of 2e²/h, where e is the charge of the electron and h is Planck’s constant, and thereby Ohm’s law is not valid for nanostructures. By using the approximation method finite difference, the transmission for one-dimensional contacts and one- and two-dimensional potentials are investigated. In the case of two-dimensional contacts and a two-dimensional potential the Green’s function method is used. It turns out that if electrons are treated as waves, the transmission and the conductance just differ by the constant 2e²/h, which in this thesis is interpreted numerically in Matlab by using the Green’s function method.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-6571 |
Date | January 2010 |
Creators | Gustafsson, Alexander |
Publisher | Växjö universitet, Matematiska och systemtekniska institutionen |
Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
Format | application/pdf |
Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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