• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Conduction band discontinuity and electron confinement at the SixGe1−x/Ge interface
  • Beteiligte: Mazzeo, G.; Yablonovitch, E.; Jiang, H. W.; Bai, Y.; Fitzgerald, E. A.
  • Erschienen: AIP Publishing, 2010
  • Erschienen in: Applied Physics Letters
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.3432066
  • ISSN: 0003-6951; 1077-3118
  • Schlagwörter: Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p>Germanium rich heterostructures can constitute a valid alternative to Silicon for the confinement of single electron spins. The conduction band discontinuity in SiGe/Ge heterostructures grown on pure germanium substrate is predicted to allow the confinement of electrons in the germanium, and the conduction band profile of germanium rich heterostructures allow the implementation of g-factor modulation devices not possible in Silicon. We here prove that electrons can indeed be trapped at the Si0.1Ge0.9/Ge interface and we measure the height of the energy barrier to 0.55±0.05 eV by measuring the tunneling time of electrons as a function of the electric field.</jats:p>