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We present a new generation of nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS), which are realized by doping the semiconductor base material. In contrast to the traditional approach these doped NEMS (D-NEMS) do not require a metallization layer. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dominik V. Scheible , Hua Qin , Hyun-Seok Kim , Robert H. Blick

Electrons in solids owe their properties to the periodic potential landscapes they experience. The advent of moir\'e lattices has revolutionized our ability to engineer such landscapes on nanometer scales, leading to numerous groundbreaking…

We present an experimental realization of a Coulomb blockade refrigerator (CBR) based on a single - electron transistor (SET). In the present structure, the SET island is interrupted by a superconducting inclusion to permit charge transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-29 A. V. Feshchenko , J. V. Koski , J. P. Pekola

We present the electro-thermal characterization of transition-edge sensor (TES) detectors suspended on Si membranes fabricated using a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer. The use of an all-silicon fabrication platform, in contrast to the more…

We show that small numbers of electrons, including a single electron, can be held in a novel electrostatic trap above the surface of superfluid helium. A potential well is created using microfabricated electrodes in a 5 micron diameter pool…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Papageorgiou , P. Glasson , K. Harrabi , V. Antonov , E. Collin , P. Fozooni , P. G. Frayne , M. J. Lea , Y. Mukharsky , D. G. Rees , .

Myoglobin single-electron transistors were investigated using nanometer- gap platinum electrodes fabricated by electromigration at cryogenic temperatures. Apomyoglobin (myoglobin without heme group) was used as a reference. The results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 Debin Li , Peter M. Gannet , David Lederman

We report on the fabrication and electrical characterization of field-effect transistors at the surface of tetracene single crystals. We find that the mobility of these transistors reaches the room-temperature value of $0.4 \ cm^2/Vs$. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 R. W. I. de Boer , T. M. Klapwijk , A. F. Morpurgo

Ternary semiconducting or metallic half-Heusler compounds with an atomic composition 1:1:1 are widely studied for their flexible electronic properties and functionalities. Recently, a new material property of half-Heusler compounds was…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-10-28 Binghai Yan , Anne de Visser

We report on the fabrication and measurement of nanoscale devices based on bilayer graphene sandwiched between hexagonal boron nitride bottom and top gate dielectrics. The top gates are patterned such that constrictions and islands can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-10 Augustinus , M. Goossens , Stefanie C. M. Driessen , Tim A. Baart , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen

Single electron transistor (SET) is an advanced tool to exploit in quantum devices. Working of such devices at room-temperature is essential for practical utilization. Dopant based single-electron devices are well studied at low-temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Pooja Yadav , Hemant Arora , Arup Samanta

Radio-frequency reflectometry in silicon single-electron transistors (SETs) is presented. At low temperatures (<4 K), in addition to the expected Coulomb blockade features associated with charging of the SET dot, quasi-periodic oscillations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 B. J. Villis , A. O. Orlov , X. Jehl , G. L. Snider , P. Fay , M. Sanquer

This paper deals with a significant family of compounds predicted by simplistic electronic structure theory to be metals but are, in fact, insulators. This false metallic state has been traditionally attributed in the literature to reflect…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-30 Oleksandr I. Malyi , Alex Zunger

We consider a single-electron transistor (SET) whose central island is a nanomechanical oscillator. The gate capacitance of the SET depends on the mechanical displacement, thus, the vibrations of the island vibrations may strongly influence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. M. Chtchelkatchev , W. Belzig , C. Bruder

With advances in exfoliation and synthetic techniques, atomically thin films of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides have recently been isolated and characterized. Their two-dimensional structure, coupled with a direct band gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-04 Deep Jariwala , Vinod K. Sangwan , Lincoln J. Lauhon , Tobin J. Marks , Mark C. Hersam

In order to continue to improve integrated circuit performance and functionality, scaled transistors with short channel lengths and low thickness are needed. But the further scaling of silicon-based devices and the development of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-08 Mengwei Si , Zehao Lin , Zhizhong Chen , Xing Sun , Haiyan Wang , Peide D. Ye

The cuprates seem to exhibit statistics, dimensionality and phase transitions in novel ways. The nature of excitations [i.e. quasiparticle or collective], spin-charge separation, stripes [static and dynamics], inhomogeneities, psuedogap,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Sher Alam , M. O. Rahman , H. Oyanagi , T. Yanagisawa

Motivated by our recent findings in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 013902, 2022], which introduces a new class of electromagnetic bulk materials whose response is similar to conventional semiconductor transistors, here we propose a one-dimensional…

In this letter we propose the design and simulation study of a novel transistor, called HFinFET, which is a hybrid of a HEMT and a FinFET, to obtain excellent performance and good off state control. Followed by the description of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Kausik Majumdar , Prashant Majhi , Navakanta Bhat , Raj Jammy

Solid electrolyte interphase (SEI), a thin layer that dynamically forms between active electrode and electrolyte during battery operation, critically governs the performance of rechargeable batteries1-5. An ideal SEI is expected to be…

Single-electron transistors (SETs) have been extensively used as charge sensors in many areas such as quantum computations. In general, the signals of SETs are smaller than those of complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Tetsufumi Tanamoto , Keiji Ono