ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] The discreteness of charge in units of e led Schottky in 1918 to predict that the electrical current in a vacuum tube fluctuates even if all spurious noise sources are eliminated carefully. This phenomenon is now widely known as shot noise. In recent years, shot noise in mesoscopic conductors, ...
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/415765a
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