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The 2D electrons trapped in vacuum near the atomically thin dielectric (ATD, mono- or $N$-layer film of $h$-BN or transition metal dichalcogenide) are considered. ATD is suspended above the back gate and forms the capacitor which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 F. T. Vasko

We measure transport through a Ga[Al]As heterostructure at temperatures between 0.1 K and 30 K. Increasing the temperature enhances the electron-electron scattering rate and viscous effects in the two-dimensional electron gas arise. To…

Heat management is crucial in the design of nanoscale devices as the operating temperature determines their efficiency and lifetime. Past experimental and theoretical works exploring nanoscale heat transport in semiconductors addressed…

We explore layered strongly correlated materials as a platform to identify and control unconventional heat transfer phenomena. We demonstrate that these systems can be tailored to sustain a wide spectrum of heat transport regimes, ranging…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-29 Giacomo Mazza , Marco Gandolfi , Massimo Capone , Francesco Banfi , Claudio Giannetti

We demonstrate that the interaction of dc temperature gradient with ac magnetic field in temperature-biased two-dimensional electron systems leads to formation of a new electromagnetic mode, a two-dimensional thermomagnetic wave (2d TMW).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Aleksandr S. Petrov

A two-dimensional (2D) electron gas formed in a modulation-doped GaAs/AlGaAs single quantum well undergoes a first-order transition when the first excited subband is occupied with electrons, as the Fermi level is tuned into resonance with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. R. Goñi , U. Haboeck , C. Thomsen , K. Eberl , F. A. Reboredo , C. R. Proetto , F. Guinea

Heat transport in the quantum Hall regime is investigated using micron-scale heaters and thermometers positioned along the edge of a millimeter-scale two dimensional electron system (2DES). The heaters rely on localized current injection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 G. Granger , J. P. Eisenstein , J. L. Reno

Electron transport in suspended and non-suspended GaAs point contacts (PCs) of different widths is experimentally studied. The superballistic contribution to the conductance, that demonstrates a distinctive quadratic dependence on the PC…

The advances in the growth techniques provide numerous scope to explore the possibilities of new 2D materials for potential applications. With the aid of first-principle calculations we show that 2D Na can be a new addition to the family of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-08 Ajit Jena , Wu Li

For the development of nanoscale electronics and photonics using atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials, it is important to realize van der Waals (vdW) interfaces with low thermal resistance, to minimize performance reduction caused…

We study the electronic thermal drag in two different Coulomb-coupled systems, the first one composed of two Coulomb blockaded metallic islands and the second one consisting of two parallel quantum wires. The two conductors of each system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-12 Bibek Bhandari , Giuliano Chiriacò , Paolo A. Erdman , Rosario Fazio , Fabio Taddei

We consider the Johnson noise of a two-dimensional, two-terminal electrical conductor for which the electron system obeys the Wiedemann-Franz law. We derive two simple and generic relations between the Johnson Noise temperature and the heat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Calvin Pozderac , Brian Skinner

The absorption of bulk acoustic phonons in a two-dimensional (2D) GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure is studied (in the clean limit) where the 2D electron-gas (2DEG), being in an odd-integer quantum-Hall state, is in fact a spin dielectric. Of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Dickmann

We report on low temperature (2-30K) electron transport and magneto-transport measurements of a chemically synthesized InAs nanowire. Both the temperature, T, and transverse magnetic field dependences of the nanowire conductance are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dong Liang , Mohammed R. Sakr , Xuan P. A. Gao

Two-dimensional electron and hole gas systems, enabled through band structure design and epitaxial growth on planar substrates, have served as key platforms for fundamental condensed matter research and high performance devices. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wei Lu , Jie Xiang , Brian P. Timko , Yue Wu , Charles M. Lieber

Conductive ferroelectric domain walls (DWs) represent a promising topical system for the development of nanoelectronic components and device sensors to be operational at elevated temperatures. DWs show very different properties as compared…

We report resistivity measurements from 0.03 K to 10 K in a dilute high mobility 2D electron system. Using an undoped GaAs/AlGaAs heterojunction in a gated field-effect transistor geometry, a wide range of densities, $0.16 \times 10^{10}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. P. Lilly , J. L. Reno , J. A. Simmons , I. B. Spielman , J. P. Eisenstein , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

We investigate fluctuations of electric and heat currents, along with their cross-correlations, in a two-channel charge Kondo circuit driven by either a voltage bias or a temperature gradient applied across the weak link. The ratios of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 T. K. T. Nguyen , J. Rech , T. Martin , M. N. Kiselev

In this article we review the thermoelectric properties of three terminal devices with Coulomb coupled quantum dots (QDs) as observed in recent experiments [1,2]. The system we consider consists of two Coulomb-blockade QDs one of which can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Holger Thierschmann , Rafael Sánchez , Björn Sothmann , Hartmut Buhmann , Laurens W. Molenkamp

We demonstrate experimentally an autonomous nanoscale energy harvester that utilises the physics of resonant tunnelling quantum dots. Gate defined quantum dots on GaAs/AlGaAs high-electron-mobility transistors are placed on either side of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 G. Jaliel , R. K. Puddy , R. Sánchez , A. N. Jordan , B. Sothmann , I. Farrer , J. P. Griffiths , D. A. Ritchie , C. G. Smith