conveniently single “charge per cycle” in highly scaled Si/SiO2 metal–oxide–semiconductor
field effect transistors. This is indicative of detection and manipulation of a single interface
trap spin species located at the boundary between the SiO2 gate dielectric and Si substrate
(almost certainly a Pb type center). This demonstration in sub-micrometer devices in which
Dennard scaling of the gate oxide has yielded extremely large gate oxide leakage currents …