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Past exam of the MPhil in micro- and nanotechnology enterprise course of the University of Cambridge 2019 Paper 2 Section B 21 iv c Solution by
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Use the one-way density per unit length . The electron-flux magnitude in an interval is charge times velocity times line density:If is instead defined for a finite length , the traversal frequency is ; the same cancellation follows. The printed therefore requires to be a line density, not an unscaled total particle number.
Subtract the opposite reservoir's incoming flux. With the stated electron electrochemical potentials, conventional positive current is opposite to electron-number flux, soAt low temperature and small bias, each fully transmitted occupied spin-degenerate subband contributes . Hence . More generally, the Landauer formula weights each mode by its transmission probability; imperfect transmission removes exact integer plateaux.
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