We discuss the possibility to employ the shot-noise measurements for the analysis of the energy resolved ballistic currents. Coulomb interactions play an essential role in this technique, since they lead to the shot-noise-suppression level which depends on the details of the energy profile.
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0201185,
title = {Shot noise as a tool to probe an electron energy distribution},
author = {O. M. Bulashenko and J. M. Rubi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0201185},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, 2 figs; contribution to the Proceedings of EP2DS-14, Prague, 2001; to appear in Physica E