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Two-dimensional (2D) magnetic van der Waals materials provide a powerful platform for studying fundamental physics of low-dimensional magnetism, engineering novel magnetic phases, and enabling ultrathin and highly tunable spintronic…

$\beta$-Gallium Oxide (Ga$_{2}$O$_{3}$) is an extensively investigated ultrawide-bandgap semiconductor for potential applications in power electronics and RF switching. The room temperature bulk electron mobility ($\sim$200…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-19 Avinash Kumar , Uttam Singisetti

Since the advent of atomic force microscopy, mechanical resonators have been used to study a wide variety of phenomena, such as the dynamics of individual electron spins, persistent currents in normal metal rings, and the Casimir force. Key…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 J. Moser , J. Guttinger , A. Eichler , M. J. Esplandiu , D. E. Liu , M. I. Dykman , A. Bachtold

We report the experimental realization of a non-galvanic, primary thermometer capable of measuring the electron temperature of a two-dimensional electron gas with negligible thermal load. Such a thermometer consists of a quantum dot whose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-13 P. Torresani , M. J. Martínez-Pérez , S. Gasparinetti , J. Renard , G. Biasiol , L. Sorba , F. Giazotto , S. De Franceschi

The implementation of a scanning microscope capable of working in confocal, atomic force and apertureless near field configurations is presented. The microscope is designed to operate in the temperature range 4 - 300 K, using conventional…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 P. S. Fodor , H. Zhu , N. G. Patil , J. Levy

Room-temperature Fermi-Dirac electron thermal excitation in conventional three-dimensional (3D) or two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors generates hot electrons with a relatively long thermal tail in energy distribution. These hot electrons…

We measure the energy distribution of electrons passing through a two-dimensional electron gas using a scanning probe microscope. We present direct spatial images of coherent electron wave flow from a quantum point contact formed in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 B. J. LeRoy , A. C. Bleszynski , M. A. Topinka , R. M. Westervelt , S. E. J. Shaw , E. J. Heller , K. D. Maranowski , A. C. Gossard

We demonstrate the combination of scanning force microscopy and scanning tunneling spectroscopy in a local probe microscope operating at very low temperature (60 mK). This local probe uses a quartz tuning fork ensuring high tunnel junction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-16 Julien Senzier , Pengshun S. Luo , Hervé Courtois

When two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) are exposed to magnetic field, they resonantly absorb electromagnetic radiation via electronic transitions between Landau levels (LLs). In 2DEGs with a Dirac spectrum, such as graphene, theory…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-15 Ievgeniia O. Nedoliuk , Sheng Hu , Andre K. Geim , Alexey B. Kuzmenko

Two-probe electronic transport measurements on a Molybdenum Disulphide (MoS_2) surface were performed at low temperature (30K) under ultra-high vacuum conditions. Two scanning tunneling microscope tips were precisely positioned in tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 R. Thamankar , T. L. Yap , K. E. J. Goh , C. Troadec , C. Joachim

Electrically detected electron spin resonance (EDESR) signals were acquired as a function of temperature in the 0.3-4.2 K temperature range in a AlGaAs/GaAs multiple quantum well sample at the filling factor at 5.7 T. In the particular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eugene Olshanetsky , Manyam Pilla , Joshua D. Caldwell , Shu-chen Liu , Clifford R. Bowers , Jerry A. Simmons , John L. Reno

Two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) at the ZnO/ZnMgO interface are promising for applications in spintronics and quantum computing due to the combination of low spin-orbit coupling and high electron mobility. Growing high mobility 2DEGs…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-11 Matthew Sparks , Oscar Kennedy , Paul Warburton

We investigate the electron-boson spectral density function, $I^2\chi(\omega,T)$, of CuO$_2$ plane in underdoped Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+\delta}$ (Bi-2212) and underdoped YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.50}$ (Y-123) using the Eliashberg formalism. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-27 Jungseek Hwang

Double-slit electron interferometers, fabricated in high mobility two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG), proved to be very powerful tools in studying coherent wave-like phenomena in mesoscopic systems. However, they suffer from small fringe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yang Ji , Yunchul Chung , D. Sprinzak , M. Heiblum , D. Mahalu , Hadas Shtrikman

Development of new, high quality functional materials has been at the forefront of condensed matter research. The recent advent of two-dimensional black phosphorus has greatly enriched the material base of two-dimensional electron systems.…

To understand complex physics of a system with strong electron electron interactions, it is ideal to control and monitor its properties while tuning an external electric field applied to the system. Indeed, complete electric field control…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-18 Linjun Li , Eoin C. T. O Farrell , Kianping Loh , Goki Eda , Barbaros Ozyilmaz , Antonio H. Castro Neto

We perform high-resolution photocurrent (PC) spectroscopy to investigate resonantly the neutral exciton ground-state (X0) in a single InAs/GaAs self-assembled quantum dot (QD) embedded in the intrinsic region of an n-i-Schottky photodiode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 J. D. Mar , X. L. Xu , J. J. Baumberg , A. C. Irvine , C. Stanley , D. A. Williams

We demonstrated the potential of the fractional dimensional approach to understand exciton parameters in the exemplary atomically thin semiconductor material, a monolayer of WS$_2$. This approach has proved to be successful in finding the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Lakshminarayan Sharma , Carlos Rodriguez-Fernandez , Humeyra Caglayan

Determining sensor parameters is a prerequisite for quantitative force measurement. Here we report a direct, high-precision calibration method for quartz tuning fork(TF) sensors that are popular in the feld of nanomechanical measurement. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-27 Lifeng Hao , Qi Wang , Ping Peng , Zhenxing Cao , Weicheng Jiao , Fan Yang , Wenbo Liu , Rongguo Wang , Xiaodong He

Nanomechanical resonators have emerged as sensors with exceptional sensitivities. These sensing capabilities open new possibilities in the studies of the thermodynamic properties in condensed matter. Here, we use mechanical sensing as a…