An extremely narrow and thin silicon wire has been fabricated on a silicon‐on‐insulator wafer (see Figure). The room‐temperature Coulomb blockade effects as well as the influence of a capacitively coupled gate on the transport properties of this conducting silicon quantum wire are studied. The results obtained are encouraging for the application of such wires in single‐electron transistors.
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