MODULATION OF ONE-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON-DENSITY IN N-ALGAAS/GAAS EDGE QUANTUM-WIRE TRANSISTOR

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NAKAMURA, Y [1 ]
TSUCHIYA, M [1 ]
KOSHIBA, S [1 ]
NOGE, H [1 ]
SAKAKI, H [1 ]
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[1] UNIV TOKYO,ADV SCI & TECHNOL RES CTR,MEGURO KU,TOKYO 153,JAPAN
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10.1063/1.111571
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An array of AlGaAs/GaAs edge quantum wires (EQWIs) with an effective width of 80 nm was successfully prepared on a (111)B microfacet structure on a patterned substrate by molecular beam epitaxy. By forming a gate electrode on the wires, field effect transistor action has been successfully demonstrated. The conductance of the wire measured in magnetic fields has exhibited a clear Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillation, and its Landau plot shows a characteristic nonlinearity caused by the magnetic depopulation of one-dimensional (1D) subbands. It has been found that as the gate voltage decreases, the SdH peaks shift systematically toward lower magnetic fields, indicating a successful modulation of 1D electron density in the EQWI.
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