Real Time Electron Tunneling and Pulse Spectroscopy in Carbon Nanotube   Quantum Dots
  We investigate a Quantum Dot (QD) in a Carbon Nanotube (CNT) in the regime where the QD is nearly isolated from the leads. An aluminum single electron transistor (SET) serves as a charge detector for the QD. We precisely measure and tune the tunnel rates into the QD in the range between 1 kHz and 1 Hz, using both pulse spectroscopy and real - time charge detection and measure the excitation spectrum of the isolated QD. 
G. Gotz, G.A. Steele, W. Vos, L.P. Kouwenhoven