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Enhanced mobility of ternary InGaAs quantum wells through digital alloying

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2024-07-09 v2 Materials Science

Abstract

High In content InGaAs quantum wells (In \geq 75%) are potentially useful for topological quantum computing and spintronics applications. In high mobility InGaAs quantum wells, alloy disorder scattering is a limiting factor. In this report, we demonstrate that by growing the InGaAs quantum wells as a digital alloy, or a short period superlattice, we can reduce the alloy disorder scattering within the quantum well and increase the peak 2 K electron mobility to 545,000 cm^2/V s, which is the highest reported mobility for high In content InGaAs quantum wells to the best of the authors' knowledge. Our results demonstrate that the digital alloy approach can be used to increase the mobility of quantum wells in random alloy ternary materials.

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@article{arxiv.2403.17166,
  title  = {Enhanced mobility of ternary InGaAs quantum wells through digital alloying},
  author = {Jason T. Dong and Yilmaz Gul and Aaron N. Engel and Teun A. J. van Schijndel and Connor P. Dempsey and Michael Pepper and Christopher J. Palmstrøm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.17166},
  year   = {2024}
}