FORMATION OF N-ALGAAS/GAAS EDGE QUANTUM-WIRE ON (111)B MICRO FACET BY MBE AND MAGNETIC DEPOPULATION OF QUASI-ONE-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON-GAS

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作者
NAKAMURA, Y [1 ]
TSUCHIYA, M [1 ]
MOTOHISA, J [1 ]
NOGE, H [1 ]
KOSHIBA, S [1 ]
SAKAKI, H [1 ]
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[1] UNIV TOKYO,ADV SCI & TECHNOL,MEGURO KU,TOKYO 153,JAPAN
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10.1016/0038-1101(94)90249-6
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
An edge quantum wire (EQWI) structure with a feature width of 120 nm was successfully prepared on (111)B micro facets; the structure was fabricated by an ensembles of several growth modes in molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) on a patterned (001) substrate without resorting to any advanced lithographic technique. A clear deviation from the linear relationship is observed in a Landau plot of magnetoresistance at low magnetic fields, providing the first evidence of magnetic depopulation of one-dimensional subbands in a facets EQWI. The sheet electron concentration measured is 5.4 x 10(11) cm-2, which corresponds to the linear concentration of 4.8 x 10(6) cm-1, and the mobility is 3 x 10(4) cm2 V-1 s-1 or higher. These values indicate a high crystal quality of the facet EQWI thus prepared.
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