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We have made extensive studies of the temperature, gate voltage, and electric field dependences of the conductance peaks in small silicon inversion layers in order to distinguish between resonant-tunneling models and a hopping model. We find that many of the peaks are consistent only with a hopping model, whereas some could be consistent with an early resonant-tunneling model. None of our structure is consistent with resonant tunneling if the recent formulation of Stone and Lee is correct.

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Webb, R. A., Hartstein, A., Wainer, J. J., & Fowler, A. B. (1985). Origin of the peaked structure in the conductance of one-dimensional silicon accumulation layers. Physical Review Letters, 54(14), 1577-1580. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.54.1577

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