The aim of the present paper is to investigate the quantum transport properties of a mesoscopic device under the in°uence of gate voltage and photon energy. A model for such mesoscopic devices is proposed as two metal contacts are deposited on the carbon nanotube quantum dot to serve as source and drain electrodes. The conducting substrate is the gate electrode in this threeterminal mesoscopic device. Another metallic gate is used to govern the electrostatics and the switching of carbon nanotube channel. The substrate at the carbon nanotube quantum dot contacts are controlled by the back gate. Both e®ects of the photons energy and gate voltage are investigated. The photon-assisted tunneling probability is deduced by solving Dirac equation. Then the current is deduced according to LandauerÀButtiker formula. The quantum capacitance for the device is deduced in terms of density of states. Oscillatory behavior of the current is observed which is due to the Coulomb blockade oscillations. It was found, also, that the peak heights of the dependence of the current on the parameters under study are strongly a®ected by the interplay between the tunneled electrons and the photon energy. This interplay a®ects the sidebands resonance. The results obtained in this study are found to be in concordant with those in the literature, which con¯rm the correctness of the proposed model. This study is valuable for nanotechnology applications, e.g., photodetector devices and solid state quantum computing systems and quantum information processes.
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