Cyclostationary shot noise in mesoscopic measurements
- 15 November 2004
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- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 96 (10) , 5927-5929
Abstract
We discuss theoretically a setup where a time-dependent current consisting of a dc bias and two sinusoidal harmonics is driven through a sample. If the sample exhibits current-dependent shot noise, the down-converted noise power spectrum varies depending on the local-oscillator phase of the mixer. The theory of this phase-dependent noise is applied to discuss the measurement of the radio-frequency single-electron transistor. We also show that this effect can be used to measure the shot noise accurately even in nonlinear high-impedance samples.Keywords
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