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In modern GaAs/Al$_x$Ga$_{1-x}$As heterostructures with record high mobilities, a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a quantum well is provided by two remote donor $\delta$-layers placed on both sides of the well. Each $\delta$-layer is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 M. Sammon , Tianran Chen , B. I. Shklovskii

We report on transport characteristics of field effect two-dimensional electron gases (2DEG) in surface indium antimonide quantum wells. The topmost 5 nm of the 30 nm wide quantum well is doped and shown to promote the formation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 E. Annelise Bergeron , F. Sfigakis , Y. Shi , George Nichols , P. C. Klipstein , A. Elbaroudy , Sean M. Walker , Z. R. Wasilewski , J. Baugh

We investigate the screening effects of excess electrons in the doped layer on the mobility of a GaAs two-dimensional electron system (2DES) with a modern architecture using short-period superlattice (SL) doping. By controlling the density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Takafumi Akiho , Koji Muraki

We report electrical conductivity $\sigma$ measurements on a range of two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) of varying linear extent. Intriguingly, at low temperatures ($T$) and low carrier density ($n_{\mathrm{s}}$) we find the behavior…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Dirk Backes , Richard Hall , Michael Pepper , Harvey Beere , David Ritchie , Vijay Narayan

The effect of a spatially modulated magnetic field on the weak localization phenomenon in two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) is studied. Both the dephasing time $\tau_H$ and magnetoresistance are shown to reveal a nontrivial behavior as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. S. Melnikov , S. V. Mironov , S. V. Sharov

The discovery of two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) in SrTiO3-based heterostructures provides new opportunities for nanoelectronics. Herein, we create a new type of oxide 2DEG by the epitaxial-strain-induced polarization at an otherwise…

A technique is developed which allows for the detailed mapping of the electronic wave function in two-dimensional electron gases with low-temperature mobilities up to 15E6 cm^2/Vs. Thin ("delta") layers of aluminium are placed into the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Christian Reichl , Werner Dietsche , Thomas Tschirky , Timo Hyart , Werner Wegscheider

We perform self-consistent Schr\"odinger-Poisson calculations with exchange and correlation corrections to determine the electron/hole gas in a radial hetero-junction formed in a modulation doped GaAs/AlGaAs core-multi-shell nanowire (CSNW)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-29 Andrea Bertoni , Miquel Royo , Farah Mahawish , Guido Goldoni

The two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) found in KTaO3-based interfaces has garnered attention due to its remarkable electronic properties. In this study, we investigated the conducting system embedded at the Si3N4/Al//KTO(110)…

We have measured the surface acoustic wave velocity shift in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure containing a two-dimensional electron system (2DES) in a low-density regime ($<$ $10^{10}$ cm$^{-2}$) at zero magnetic field. The interaction of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. A. Tracy , J. P. Eisenstein , M. P. Lilly , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We report on the growth and characterization of a new Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor (DMS) heterostructure that presents a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas (2DEG) with a carrier density $n \sim 1.08 \times 10^{12} cm^{-2}$ and a mobility $\mu…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-18 A. Bove , F. Altomare , N. B. Kundtz , Albert M. Chang , Y. J. Cho , X. Liu , J. Furdyna

The high-frequency conductivity of Si delta-doped GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures is studied in the integer quantum Hall effect (QHE) regime, using acoustic methods. Both the real and the imaginary parts of the complex conductivity are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. L. Drichko , A. M. Diakonov , I. Yu. Smirnov , Y. M. Galperin , A. I. Toropov

For applications to sensor design, the product nxmu of the electron density n and the mobility mu is a key parameter to be optimized for enhanced device sensitivity. We model the carrier mobility in a two dimensional electron gas (2DEG)…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Shao , S. A. Solin , L. R. Ram-Mohan

We review magneto-optical and magneto-transport effects in GaAs/GaAlAs heterostructures doped in GaAlAs barriers with donors, providing two-dimensional electron gas in GaAs quantum wells, and additionally doped with smaller amounts of…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-04 Wlodek Zawadzki , Andre Raymond , Maciej Kubisa

The two-dimensional electron gas residing in shallow InAs quantum wells coupled to epitaxial aluminum is a widely utilized platform for exploration of topological superconductivity. Strong spin-orbit coupling, large effective $g$-factor,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Teng Zhang , Tyler Lindemann , Geoffrey C. Gardner , Sergei Gronin , Tailung Wu , Michael J. Manfra

Density-functional calculations using an exact exchange potential for a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) formed in a GaAs single quantum well predict the existence of a spin-polarized phase, when an excited subband becomes slightly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. R. Goñi , P. Giudici , F. A. Reboredo , C. R. Proetto , C. Thomsen , K. Eberl , M. Hauser

$\mathrm{\beta}$-Gallium oxide ($\mathrm{\beta\mbox{-}Ga_{2}O_{3}}$) is an emerging widebandgap semiconductor for potential application in power and RF electronics applications. Initial theoretical calculation on a 2-dimensional electron…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 Avinash Kumar , Uttam Singisetti

The propagation of a surface acoustic wave (SAW) on GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures is studied in the case where the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) is subject to a strong magnetic field and a smooth random potential with correlation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Andreas Knaebchen , Yehoshua Levinson , Ora Entin-Wohlman

Although the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in (001) Zn$_{1-x}$Mg$_x$O/ZnO heterostructures has been discovered for about twenty years, the origin of the 2DEG is still inconclusive. In the present letter, the formation mechanisms of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-26 Xiang-Hong Chen , Dong-Yu Hou , Zhi-Xin Hu , Kuang-Hong Gao , Zhi-Qing Li

Magnetotransport in a laterally confined two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) can exhibit modified scattering channels owing to a tilted Hall potential. Transitions of electrons between Landau levels with shifted guiding centers can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. L. Yang , J. Zhang , R. R. Du , J. A. Simmons , J. L. Reno