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This is a brief review of some recent developments inexperiments and theory of the Coulomb blockade phenomenon. Weconcentrate on electron tunneling through semiconductorquantum dots and normal-metal nanoparticles. The linearconductance and non-linear I–V characteristics are sensitivenot only to the charging energy, but also to smaller energyscales. These are the spacing between discrete energy levelsof intra-dot electron excitations, and the width these levelsacquire due to the electron escape to leads through thejunctions. At sufficiently low temperatures, or at not-so-small junction conductances, the many-body phenomena, such asKondo effect, become observable in the dot-lead system. Kondoeffect yields an additional fine energy scale to the problem.We discuss a simple theoretical model incorporating theseenergy scales, and its relation to the experimentalobservations.

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Glazman, L.I. Single Electron Tunneling. Journal of Low Temperature Physics 118, 247–269 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004654129125

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