Shot noise, originating from the discrete nature of electric charge, is generated by scattering
processes. Shot-noise measurements have revealed microscopic charge dynamics in …

Nanoscale electronics and photonics are among the most promising research areas
providing functional nanocomponents for data transfer and signal processing. By adopting …

Over the past few decades, the field of molecular electronics has greatly benefited from
advances in the fundamental understanding of charge transport mechanisms. Molecular …

Single atoms on Au (111) surfaces have been contacted with the Au tip of a low temperature
scanning tunneling microscope. The shot noise of the current through these contacts has …

Charge transfer is a fundamental process that underlies a multitude of phenomena in
chemistry and biology. Recent advances in observing and manipulating charge and heat …

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR), a trade-off relation between thermodynamic
cost (entropy production) and precision (fluctuations), is expected to hold in nanoscale …

With the goal of creating single‐molecule devices and integrating them into circuits, the
emergence of single‐molecule electronics provides various techniques for the fabrication of …

Probes that measure the local thermal properties of systems out of equilibrium are emerging
as new tools in the study of nanoscale systems. One can then measure the temperature of a …

Measuring the local temperature of nanoscale systems out of equilibrium has emerged as a
new tool to study local heating effects and other local thermal properties of systems driven …

Since the work of Walter Schottky, it is known that the shot-noise power for a completely
uncorrelated set of electrons increases linearly with the time-averaged current. At zero …