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Comment on ``Electric Field Scaling at B=0 Metal-Insulator Transition in Two Dimensions''

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2008-02-03 v1

Abstract

In a recent Letter, Kravchenko et al. [cond-mat/9608101] have provided evidence for a metal-insulator transition (MIT) in a two-dimensional electron system (2DES) in Si metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs). The transition observed in these samples occurs at relatively low electron densities ns(12)×1011cm2n_{s}\sim (1-2)\times 10^{11}cm^{-2} and high disorder σce2/2h\sigma_{c}\sim e^{2}/2h. We present evidence for a 2D MIT in a structure where the disorderis about two orders of magnitude weaker than in Si MOSFETs. The MIT occurs in the same range of nsn_s Providing very strong evidence that the 2D MIT in Si-based devices is caused by electron-electron interactions.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9707061,
  title  = {Comment on ``Electric Field Scaling at B=0 Metal-Insulator Transition in Two Dimensions''},
  author = {K. Ismail and J. O. Chu and Dragana Popovic and A. B. Fowler and S. Washburn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9707061},
  year   = {2008}
}

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