Shot noise in resonant tunneling through a zero-dimensional state with a complex energy spectrum

A. Nauen, F. Hohls, J. Konemann, R. J. Haug

Published 2004-02-13Version 1

We investigate the noise properties of a GaAs/AlGaAs resonant tunneling structure at bias voltages where the current characteristic is determined by single electron tunneling. We discuss the suppression of the shot noise in the framework of a coupled two-state system. For large bias voltages we observed super-Poissonian shot noise up to values of the Fano factor $\alpha \approx 10$.