264 research outputs found
Properties and characterization of ALD grown dielectric oxides for MIS structures
We report on an extensive structural and electrical characterization of
under-gate dielectric oxide insulators Al2O3 and HfO2 grown by Atomic Layer
Deposition (ALD). We elaborate the ALD growth window for these oxides, finding
that the 40-100 nm thick layers of both oxides exhibit fine surface flatness
and required amorphous structure. These layers constitute a base for further
metallic gate evaporation to complete the Metal-Insulator-Semiconductor
structure. Our best devices survive energizing up to ~3 MV/cm at 77 K with the
leakage current staying below the state-of-the-art level of 1 nA. At these
conditions the displaced charge corresponds to a change of the sheet carrier
density of 3 \times 1013 cm-2, what promises an effective modulation of the
micromagnetic properties in diluted ferromagnetic semiconductors.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, 14 reference
Observation of surface states on heavily indium doped SnTe(111), a superconducting topological crystalline insulator
The topological crystalline insulator tin telluride is known to host
superconductivity when doped with indium (SnInTe), and for low
indium contents () it is known that the topological surface states are
preserved. Here we present the growth, characterization and angle resolved
photoemission spectroscopy analysis of samples with much heavier In doping (up
to ), a regime where the superconducting temperature is increased
nearly fourfold. We demonstrate that despite strong p-type doping, Dirac-like
surface states persist
Nonlocal resistance and its fluctuations in microstructures of band-inverted HgTe/(Hg,Cd)Te quantum wells
We investigate experimentally transport in gated microsctructures containing
a band-inverted HgTe/Hg_{0.3}Cd_{0.7}Te quantum well. Measurements of nonlocal
resistances using many contacts prove that in the depletion regime the current
is carried by the edge channels, as expected for a two-dimensional topological
insulator. However, high and non-quantized values of channel resistances show
that the topological protection length (i.e. the distance on which the carriers
in helical edge channels propagate without backscattering) is much shorter than
the channel length, which is ~100 micrometers. The weak temperature dependence
of the resistance and the presence of temperature dependent reproducible
quasi-periodic resistance fluctuations can be qualitatively explained by the
presence of charge puddles in the well, to which the electrons from the edge
channels are tunnel-coupled.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, published versio
Optical Properties of Manganese Doped Wide Band Gap ZnS and ZnO
Optical properties of ZnMnO layers grown at low temperature by Atomic Layer
Deposition and Metalorganic Vapor Phase Epitaxy are discussed and compared to
results obtained for ZnMnS samples. Present results suggest a double valence of
Mn ions in ZnO lattice. Strong absorption, with onset at about 2.1 eV, is
tentatively related to Mn 2+ to 3+ photoionization. Mechanism of emission
deactivation in ZnMnO is discussed and is explained by the processes following
the assumed Mn 2+ to 3+ recharging.Comment: 17 pages, 4 figures, 32 reference
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