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We study a new mechanism of wave/electron scattering in multi-mode surface-corrugated waveguides/wires. This mechanism is due to specific square-gradient terms in an effective Hamiltonian describing the surface scattering, that were…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 F. M. Izrailev , N. M. Makarov , M. Rendon

We propose and study theoretically a new mechanism of electron-impurity scattering in doped seminconductors with large dielectric constant. It is based upon the idea of \textit{vector} character of deformations caused in the crystalline…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-26 Khachatur G. Nazaryan , Mikhail Feigel'man

We consider the classical ballistic dynamics of massless electrons on the conducting surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator, influenced by random variations of the surface height. By solving the geodesic equation and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-18 J. P. Dahlhaus , C. -Y. Hou , A. R. Akhmerov , C. W. J. Beenakker

We study the low temperature conductivity of the electron accumulation layer induced by the very strong electric field at the surface of $\text{SrTiO}_3$ sample. Due to the strongly nonlinear lattice dielectric response, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-21 Han Fu , K. V. Reich , B. I. Shklovskii

Atomically thin (two-dimensional, 2D) semiconductors have shown great potential as the fundamental building blocks for next-generation electronics. However, all the 2D semiconductors that have been experimentally made so far have…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-26 Long Cheng , Chenmu Zhang , Yuanyue Liu

It is known that carrier mobility in layered semiconductors generally increases from two-dimension (2D) to three-dimension due to suppressed scattering channels resulting from decreased densities of electron and phonon states. In this work,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-26 Shiru Song , Ji-Hui Yang , Xin-Gao Gong

High mobility two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) underpin today's silicon based devices and are of fundamental importance for the emerging field of oxide electronics. Such 2DEGs are usually created by engineering band offsets and charge…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-13 S. McKeown Walker , F. Y. Bruno , F. Baumberger

We present low-temperature transport measurements of a gate-tunable thin film topological insulator system that features high mobility and low carrier density. Upon gate tuning to a regime around the charge neutrality point, we infer an…

We induce surface carrier densities up to $\sim7\cdot 10^{14}$cm$^{-2}$ in few-layer graphene devices by electric double layer gating with a polymeric electrolyte. In 3-, 4- and 5-layer graphene below 20-30K we observe a logarithmic upturn…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 R. S. Gonnelli , E. Piatti , A. Sola , M. Tortello , F. Dolcini , S. Galasso , J. R. Nair , C. Gerbaldi , E. Cappelluti , M. Bruna , A. C. Ferrari

Two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs) confined to the surface of narrowband semiconductors have attracted great interest since they can easily integrate with superconductivity (or ferromagnetism) enabling new possibilities in hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-10 Kaushini Wickramasinghe , William Mayer , Joseph Yuan , Tri Nguyen , Lucy Jiao , Vladimir Manucharyan , Javad Shabani

The theory of weak localization is generalized for multilevel 2D systems taking into account intersubband scattering. It is shown that weak intersubband scattering which is negligible in a classical transport, affects strongly the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. S. Averkiev , L. E. Golub , S. A. Tarasenko , M. Willander

Theoretical model of a rough surface in a d-wave superconductor is studied for the general case of arbitrary strength of electron scattering by an impurity layer covering the surface. Boundary conditions for quasiclassical Eilenberger…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. A. Golubov , M. Yu. Kupriyanov

Two-dimensional semiconductors are structurally ideal channel materials for the ultimate atomic electronics after silicon era. A long-standing puzzle is the low carrier mobility ({\mu}) in them as compared with corresponding bulk…

We have studied an electron transport in inversion layers of high-mobility Si(100) samples. At high electron concentrations and temperatures below 4.2 K, two series of Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations have been observed. The temperature…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 S. G. Semenchinsky , L. Smrcka , J. Stehno

In multiband superconductivity, the case where the single electron hopping between different Fermi surface spots of different symmetry is forbidden by selection rules is recently attracting a large interest. The focus is addressed to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-10-14 Antonio Bianconi , Davide Innocenti , Antonio Valletta , Andrea Perali

We studied the Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations in high-mobility Si-MOS samples over a wide range of carrier densities $n\simeq (1-50) \times 10^{11}$cm$^{-2}$, which includes the vicinity of the apparent metal-insulator transition in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. M. Pudalov , M. E. Gershenson , H. Kojima , N. Butch , E. M. Dizhur , G. Brunthaler , A. Prinz , G. Bauer

Here, we report an alternative route to achieve two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a semiconductor structure. It has been shown that charge accumulation on the side facets can lead to the formation of 2DEG in a network of c-axis…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-07 H. P. Bhasker , Varun Thakur , S. M. Shivaprasad , S. Dhar

The charge-carrier transport properties of ultrathin metallic films are analysed with ab-initio methods using the density functional theory (DFT) on free-standing single crystalline slabs in the thickness range between 1 and 8 monolayers…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Vilfan , H. Pfnuer

In this letter, we theoretically study the electron mobility in few-layer MoxW1-xS2 as limited by various scattering mechanisms. The room temperature energy-dependent scattering times corresponding to polar longitudinal optical (LO) phonon,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-15 Hareesh Chandrasekar , Digbijoy Neelim Nath

We report on the fabrication and characterization of patterned high-mobility two-dimensional electron gases (2DEG) formed on SrTiO$_3$ (STO) substrate surfaces by hydrogen plasma exposure. The resulting devices consistently showed high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Dickson Boahen , Sushant Padhye , Gayan De Silva , Eshanvi Rao , Evgeny Mikheev