ANTI-RESONANCES OF TUNNELING THROUGH A QUANTUM WIRE WITH SIDE-COUPLED QUANTUM DOTS

We study the transport properties of electrons in a quantum wire with side-coupled quantum dots in Coulomb blockade regime by the use of the equivalent single-particle multi-channel network and Landauer formula. At low temperatures the calculated dependence of the conductance on the gate voltage of dots exhibits two dips, indicating the destructive interference of the wave directly transmitted through the wire and the wave reflected from the dots. In a wire with more than one side-coupled dots the suppression of conductance is a simple summation of the effects of scattering of all the dots. The possibility of fabricating tunable switch devices by using such structures is discussed.