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Publications and source records attributed to Huu Chuong Nguyen.
In this review, we present an overview of four proof-of-concept of single-atom transistors based on four technologies : Atom doping, Single electron transistors, Single-atom metallic wire and Multilevel atomic-scale switching. Techniques and methods to build these transistors are described as such as the theory behind their mechanisms.
We calculate the diffusion coefficients of persistent random walks on cubic and hypercubic lattices, where the direction of a walker at a given step depends on the memory of one or two previous steps. These results are then applied to study a billiard model, namely a three-dimensional periodic Lorentz gas. The geometry of the model is studied in order to find the regimes in which it exhibits normal diffusion. In this regime, we calculate numerically the transition probabilities between cells to compare the persistent random-walk approximation with simulation results for the diffusion coefficient.