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The quality of the semiconductor-barrier interface plays a pivotal role in the demonstration of high quality reproducible quantum dots for quantum information processing. In this work, we have measured SiMOSFET Hall bars on undoped Si…

Motivated by recent experiments on Si/SiGe quantum wells with a co-design of high electron mobility and large valley splitting [B. Paquelet Wuetz, et al., Nature Communications 14, 1385 (2023); D. D. Esposti, et al., arXiv:2309.02832],…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Yi Huang , Sankar Das Sarma

Hole spins in Ge/SiGe heterostructure quantum dots have emerged as promising qubits for quantum computation. The strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC), characteristic of heavy-hole states in Ge, enables fast and all-electrical qubit control.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 L. Massai , B. Hetényi , M. Mergenthaler , F. J. Schupp , L. Sommer , S. Paredes , S. W. Bedell , P. Harvey-Collard , G. Salis , A. Fuhrer , N. W. Hendrickx

Candidate systems for topologically-protected qubits include two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) based on heterostructures exhibiting a strong spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and superconductivity via the proximity effect. For InAs- or…

The electron transport in the two-dimensional gas formed in tensile-strained Si1-xGex/Si/Si1-xGex heterostructures is investigated using Monte Carlo simulation. At first the electron mobility is studied in ungated modulation doped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Monsef , P. Dollfus , S. Galdin-Retailleau , H. -J. Herzog , T. Hackbarth

Here, we present a temperature ($T$) dependent comparison between field-effect and Hall mobilities in field-effect transistors based on few-layered WSe$_2$ exfoliated onto SiO$_2$. Without dielectric engineering and beyond a $T$-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-12 N. R. Pradhan , D. Rhodes , S. Memaran , J. M. Poumirol , D. Smirnov , S. Talapatra , S. Feng , N. Perea-Lopez , A. L. Elias , M. Terrones , P. M. Ajayan , L. Balicas

Metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFET's) using atomic-layer-deposited (ALD) Al$_2$O$_3$ as the gate dielectric are fabricated on the Si/Si$_{1-x}$Ge$_x$ heterostructures. The low-temperature carrier density of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Lai , P. D. Ye , W. Pan , D. C. Tsui , S. A. Lyon , M. Muhlberger , F. Schaffler

We study theoretically the relative importance of short-range disorder in determining the low-temperature 2D mobility in GaAs-based structures with respect to Coulomb disorder which is known to be the dominant disorder in semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-08 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang

The growth and the density dependence of the low temperature mobility of a series of two-dimensional electron systems confined to un-intentionally doped, low extended defect density InAs quantum wells with Al$_{1-x}$Ga$_{x}$Sb barriers are…

Strained Ge ($\epsilon$-Ge) and strained Si ($\epsilon$-Si) buried quantum wells have enabled advanced spin-qubit quantum processors. However, in the absence of suitable lattice-matched substrates, $\epsilon$-Ge and $\epsilon$-Si are…

We have measured the temperature (0.1 < T < 15 K) and magnetic field (0 < B < 32 T) dependences of longitudinal and Hall resistivities for the p-Ge_{1-x}Si_x/Ge, x=~0.07, multilayers with different Ge layer widths 10 < d_w < 38 nm and hole…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. V. Yakunin , G. A. Alshanskii , Yu. G. Arapov , G. I. Harus , V. N. Neverov , N. G. Shelushinina , O. A. Kuznetsov

Disorder in the heterogeneous material stack of semiconductor spin qubit systems introduces noise that compromises quantum information processing, posing a challenge to coherently control large-scale quantum devices. Here, we exploit…

Modulation doped GaAs-AlGaAs quantum well based structures are usually used to achieve very high mobility 2-dimensional electron (or hole) gases. Usually high mobilities ($>10^{7}{\rm{cm}^{2}\rm{V}^{-1}\rm{s}^{-1}}$) are achieved at high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 K. Das Gupta , A. F. Croxall , W. Y. Mak , H. E. Beere , C. A. Nicoll , I. Farrer , F. Sfigakis , D. A. Ritchie

We report on a systematic study of the density dependence of mobility in a low-density Carbon-doped (100) GaAs two-dimensional hole system (2DHS). At T= 50 mK, a mobility of 2.6 x 10^6 cm^2/Vs at a density p=6.2 x 10^10 cm^- was measured.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-22 J. D. Watson , S. Mondal , G. A. Csáthy , M. J. Manfra , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We demonstrate that a lightly-strained germanium channel ($\varepsilon_{//}$ = -0.41%) in an undoped Ge/Si$_{0.1}$Ge$_{0.9}$ heterostructure field effect transistor supports a 2D hole gas with mobility in excess of 1$\times$10$^{6}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 M. Lodari , O. Kong , M. Rendell , A. Tosato , A. Sammak , M. Veldhorst , A. R. Hamilton , G. Scappucci

Exploiting the spin resonance of two-dimensional (2D) electrons in SiGe/Si quantum wells we determine the carrier-density-dependence of the magnetic susceptibility. Assuming weak interaction we evaluate the density of states at the Fermi…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Z. Wilamowski , N. Sandersfeld , W. Jantsch , D. Toebben , F. Schaeffler

The interaction of surface acoustic waves (SAW) with $p$-type Si/Si$_{0.87}$Ge$_{0.13}$ heterostructures has been studied for SAW frequencies of 30-300 MHz. For temperatures in the range 0.7$<T<$1.6 K and magnetic fields up to 7 T, the SAW…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. L. Drichko , A. M. Diakonov , I. Yu. Smirnov , G. O. Andrianov , O. A. Mironov , M. Myronov , D. R. Leadley , T. E. Whall

We study molecular beam epitaxially grown, undoped Al$_{x}$Ga$_{1-x}$Sb/InAs/AlSb quantum wells with different buffer and barrier designs and varying quantum well width. The highest mobilities were achieved with Al$_{0.33}$Ga$_{0.67}$Sb…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-13 T. Tschirky , S. Mueller , Ch. A. Lehner , S. Fält , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , W. Wegscheider

Bi$_2$O$_2$Se is an emerging high-performance layered semiconductor with excellent stability. While experimental studies have explored carrier transport across various doping levels for both $n$-type and $p$-type conduction, a comprehensive…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-15 Yubo Yuan , Ziye Zhu , Jiaming Hu , Wenbin Li

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