Lab 5: Quantum Mechanical Tunneling

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Description: In this lab, we will analyze a piece of material composed of nickel in rubber that exhibits a nonlinear current versus voltage (I-V) relationship due to the dominance of tunneling in the conduction process, and build a simple resistive touchpad.

Speaker: Yu Gu

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Lab handout (PDF - 3.0MB)