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Electrons can be made to pass through a circuit one by one, in nanoscale devices based on the combination of the Coulomb interaction between electrons and their passage by quantum tunnelling through an insulating barrier. Single-electron devices provide a new way of measuring the charge quantum, and clarify how electronic signal processing at the molecular level might function.
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Devoret, M., Esteve, D. & Urbina, C. Single-electron transfer in metallic nanostructures. Nature 360, 547–553 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1038/360547a0
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