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High mobility, strong spin-orbit coupling, and large Land\'e g-factor make the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in InAs quantum wells grown on nearly-lattice-matched GaSb substrates an attractive platform for mesoscopic quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 C. Thomas , A. T. Hatke , A. Tuaz , R. Kallaher , T. Wu , T. Wang , R. E. Diaz , G. C. Gardner , M. A. Capano , M. J. Manfra

The purpose of this work is to fabricate ribbon-like InGaAs and InAsP wires embedded in InP ridge structures and investigate their transport properties. The InP ridge structures that contain the wires are selectively grown by chemical beam…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Granger , A. Kam , S. A. Studenikin , A. S. Sachrajda , G. C. Aers , R. L. Williams , P. J. Poole

We investigate transport properties of stable gate-defined quantum dots formed in an InSb$_{0.87}$As$_{0.13}$ quantum well. High $\textit{g}$-factor and strong spin-orbit-coupling make InSb$_x$As$_{1-x}$ a promising platform for exploration…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 S. Metti , C. Thomas , M. J. Manfra

We present high field magneto-transport data from a range of 30nm wide InSb/InAlSb quantum wells. The low temperature carrier mobility of the samples studied ranged from 18.4 to 39.5 m2V-1s-1 with carrier densities between 1.5x1015 and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. M. Gilbertson , W. R. Branford , M. Fearn , L. Buckle , P. D. Buckle , T. Ashley , L. F. Cohen

We report the epitaxial growth of high-quality Al0.8Ga0.2Sb-InAs-Al0.8Ga0.2Sb quantum well films featured by high carrier mobility and strong spin-orbit coupling. By appropriately optimizing the Al-to-Ga ratio in the AlGaSb barrier layer,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Zhenghang Zhi , Hanzhi Ruan , Jiuming Liu , Xinpeng Li , Yong Zhang , Qi Yao , Chenjia Tang , Yujie Xiao , Xufeng Kou

High mobility InSb quantum wells with tunable carrier densities are investigated by transport experiments in magnetic fields tilted with respect to the sample normal. We employ the coincidence method and the temperature dependence of the…

We report a backgated InAs/GaSb double quantum well device grown on GaSb substrate. The use of the native substrate allows for high materials quality with electron mobility in excess of 500,000 cm2/Vs at sheet charge density of 8x1011 cm-2…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Binh-Minh Nguyen , Wei Yi , Ramsey Noah , Jacob Thorp , Marko Sokolich

Near surface indium arsenide quantum wells have recently attracted a great deal of interest since they can be interfaced epitaxially with superconducting films and have proven to be a robust platform for exploring mesoscopic and topological…

Nanostructures fabricated from narrow-gap semiconductors with strong spin-orbit interaction (SOI), such as InAs, can be used to filter momentum modes of electrons and offer the possibility to create and detect spin-polarized currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Olivio Chiatti , Sven S. Buchholz , Christian Heyn , Wolfgang Hansen , Mehdi Pakmehr , Bruce D. McCombe , Saskia F. Fischer

One-dimensional (1D) electronic transport and induced superconductivity in semiconductor nano-structures are crucial ingredients to realize topological superconductivity. Our approach for topological superconductivity employs a…

We report an experimental study of one-dimensional (1D) electronic transport in an InSb semiconducting nanowire. Three bottom gates are used to locally deplete the nanowire creating a ballistic quantum point contact with only a few…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-12 J. C. Estrada Saldaña , Y. M. Niquet , J. P. Cleuziou , E. J. H. Lee , D. Car , S. R. Plissard , E. P. A. M. Bakkers , S. De Franceschi

We report magneto-transport measurements on high-mobility two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs) confined in In_0.75Ga_0.25As/In_0.75Al_0.25As single quantum wells. Several quantum Hall states are observed in a wide range of temperatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Desrat , F. Giazotto , V. Pellegrini , F. Beltram , F. Capotondi , G. Biasiol , L. Sorba , D. K. Maude

Semiconductor InSb nanowires present a highly intriguing platform with immense potential for applications in spintronics and topological quantum devices. The narrow band gap exhibited by InSb allows for precise tuning of these nanowires,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Mingtang Deng , Chunlin Yu , Guangyao Huang , P. Caroff , H. Q. Xu

We report the electronic characterization of mesoscopic Hall bar devices fabricated from coupled InAs/GaSb quantum wells sandwiched between AlSb barriers, an emerging candidate for two-dimensional topological insulators. The electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-06 Atindra Nath Pal , Susanne Mueller , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Thomas Tschirky , Christophe Charpentier , Werner Wegscheider

We investigate low-temperature transport through single InAs quantum wells and broken-gap InAs/GaSb double quantum wells. Non-local measurements in the regime beyond bulk pinch-off confirm the presence of edge conduction in InAs quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Susanne Mueller , Christopher Mittag , Thomas Tschirky , Christophe Charpentier , Werner Wegscheider , Klaus Ensslin , Thomas Ihn

We report the magnetoresistance characteristics of one-dimensional electrons confined in a single InAs quantum well sandwiched between AlSb barriers. As a result of a novel nanofabrication scheme that utilizes a 3nm-shallow wet chemical…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 C. H. Yang , M. J. Yang , K. A. Cheng , J. C. Culbertson

We report transport mobility measurements for clean, two-dimensional (2D) electron systems confined to GaAs quantum wells (QWs), grown via molecular beam epitaxy, in two families of structures, a standard, symmetrically-doped GaAs set of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-20 D. Kamburov , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer

The quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE), a hallmark of topological insulators, enables dissipationless, spin-polarized edge transport and has been predicted in various two-dimensional materials. However, challenges such as limited scalability,…

Quantum devices based on InSb nanowires (NWs) are a prime candidate system for realizing and exploring topologically-protected quantum states and for electrically-controlled spin-based qubits. The influence of disorder on achieving reliable…

We report transport measurements in a single edge channel of an InAs/GaSb quantum spin Hall insulator, where the conduction occurs through only one pair of counterpropagating edge modes. By using a specific sample design involving highly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 François Couëdo , Hiroshi Irie , Kyoichi Suzuki , Koji Onomitsu , Koji Muraki