InAs量子点在肖特基势垒二极管输运特性中的影响

在77到292K的范围内,系统研究了含InAs自组装量子点的金属-半导体-金属双肖特基势垒二极管的输运特性.随着温度上升,量子点的存储效应引起的电流回路逐渐减小.在测试温度范围内,通过量子点的共振隧穿过程在电流电压(I-V)曲线中造成台阶结构,且使电流回路随温度的上升急剧减小.根据肖特基势垒的反向I-V曲线,计算了势垒的反向饱和电流密度和平均理想因子.发现共振随穿效应使肖特基势垒在更大的程度上偏离了理想情况,而量子点的电子存储效应主要改变了肖特基势垒的有效势垒高度,从而影响了势垒的反向饱和电流密度 关键词： 自组装量子点 肖特基势垒 电流-电压特性     

单电子晶体管电流解析模型及数值分析

本文首先建立单电子晶体管的电流解析模型, 然后将蒙特卡罗法与主方程法结合进行数值分析, 研究了栅极偏压、漏极偏压、温度与隧道结电阻等参数对器件特性的影响. 结果表明: 对于对称结, 库仑台阶随栅极偏压增大而漂移; 漏极电压增大, 库仑振荡振幅增强, 库仑阻塞则衰减; 温度升高将导致库仑台阶和库仑振荡现象消失. 对于非对称结, 源漏隧道结电阻比率增大, 库仑阻塞现象越明显. 关键词： 单电子晶体管 解析模型 蒙特卡罗法 主方程法     

库仑阻塞现象及其在纳米电子器件中的应用

对单隧穿结和双隧穿结中的库仑阻塞现象进行了介绍,分析了其中电子隧穿的物理过程;然后探讨在单电子盒中如何利用库仑阻塞控制单电子隧穿的物理原理;最后介绍库仑阻塞效应在单电子晶体管中的具体应用及其发展前景.     

基于库仑阻塞原理的多值存储器

设计了一种基于库仑阻塞原理的新型单电子多值存储器.器件包括两个多隧穿结结构和一个单电子晶体管，其中单电子晶体管起到一个静电计的作用来实现数据的读取.两个隧穿结库仑阻塞区域的大小不同使得器件具有三个稳定的存储状态.利用这个原理可以制备出多值的动态随机存储器和非挥发性的随机存储器.这种低功耗的单电子多值存储器可以实现信息的超高密度存储. 关键词： 库仑阻塞 单电子晶体管     

串联组装双C60 的电子结构和输运特性

利用第一原理密度泛函理论计算组装C60形成能和电子结构,用半经典隧穿理论研究了串联C60的电子输运特性。结果显示：六边形对六边形双C60比边对边双C60稳定;库仑阻塞与系统的结构密切相关,并且只有阴极结比阳极结窄时,才会出现库仑阻塞;低温时出现非常明显库仑台阶,温度较高时其被热效应抑制。     

串联组装双C60 的电子结构和输运特性

利用第一原理密度泛函理论计算组装C60形成能和电子结构,用半经典隧穿理论研究了串联C60的电子输运特性。结果显示：六边形对六边形双C60比边对边双C60稳定;库仑阻塞与系统的结构密切相关,并且只有阴极结比阳极结窄时,才会出现库仑阻塞;低温时出现非常明显库仑台阶,温度较高时其被热效应抑制。     

MgO基磁性隧道结温度-偏压相图的理论研究

MgO基磁性隧道结是自旋电子器件研究的热点问题,其温度特性和偏压特性在实际应用中极其重要.因此,亟需在理论上计算得到MgO基磁性隧道结的温度-偏压相图.本文构建了适用于单晶势垒层磁性隧道结的理论.该理论将单晶势垒层视作周期性光栅,利用光学衍射理论处理势垒层对隧穿电子的衍射,因此可以很好地计入隧穿电子波的相干性.根据此理论,同时计入温度和偏压的影响计算了MgO基磁性隧道结的温度-偏压相图.理论结果表明,通过调节MgO基磁性隧道结的铁磁电极半交换劈裂能D、化学势μ以及势垒层周期势v(Kh)可以优化其温度特性和偏压特性.该结果为MgO基磁性隧道结的应用提供了坚实的理论基础.     

电子关联效应对平行双量子点系统磁输运性质的影响

从理论上研究了平行双量子点系统中的电子关联效应对该系统磁输运性质的影响. 基于广义主方程方法, 计算了通过此系统的电流、微分电导和隧穿磁阻. 计算结果表明: 电子自旋关联效应可以促发一个很大的隧穿磁阻, 而电子库仑关联效应不仅可以压制电子自旋关联效应, 还可以导致负隧穿磁阻和负微分电导的出现. 对相关的基本物理问题进行了讨论.     

InAs自组装量子点GaAs肖特基二级管的电学特性研究

分析研究了GaAsInAs自组装量子点的电输运性质,通过对实验数据的分析,讨论了Schottky势垒对InAs量子点器件的影响和IV曲线中迟滞回路以及电导曲线中台阶结构产生的原因.迟滞回路和台阶的出现与电场中量子点的充放电过程相关:迟滞回路反映了量子点充电后对载流子的库仑作用,而电导台阶则反映了量子点因共振隧穿的放电现象 关键词： 迟滞现象 自组装量子点 共振隧穿     

双势垒结构Cu-Al2O3-MgF2-Au隧道结中的电子共振隧穿与发光特性研究

制备了Cu-Al₂O₃-MgF₂-Au双势垒隧道发光结,分析了结加上一定偏压后的电子隧穿过程.指出由于构成隧道结的绝缘栅薄膜的厚度及禁带宽度的不同而导致双势垒中能级产生分裂,使电子通过栅区时产生共振隧穿现象.根据这一现象,并结合结的I-V特性,对结的发光性能进行了讨论.这种结构的结与普通单势垒MIM结相比,其发光效率(10^-6—10^-5)提高了近一个数量级,且发光光谱的波长范围及谱峰均向短波长方向 关键词：     

Single electron charging effects in semiconductor quantum dots

We have studied charging effects in a lateral split-gate quantum dot defined by metal gates in the two dimensional electron gas (2 DEG) of a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure. The gate structure allows an independent control of the conductances of the two tunnel barriers separating the quantum dot from the two 2 DEG leads, and enables us to vary the number of electrons that are localized in the dot. We have measured Coulomb oscillations in the conductance and the Coulomb staircase in current-voltage characteristics and studied their dependence on the conductances of the tunnel barriers. We show experimentally that at zero magnetic field charging effects start to affect the transport properties when both barrier conductances are smaller than the first quantized conductance value of a point contact at 2e ²/h. The experiments are described by a simple model in terms of electrochemical potentials, which includes both the discreteness of the electron charge and the quantum energy states due to confinement.     

Co-tunneling of the charge through a 2-D electron island

A double barrier Single Electron Transistor is realized in two dimensions by confining the 2-D electron gas of a GaAs/GaAlAs heterojunction to a small island by means of Schottky gates. Two gates provide adjustable tunnel barriers and a central gate controls the electron number in the island. The island has small single-particle energy level spacing and forms a metallic island. Periodic conductance oscillations characteristic of Coulomb blockade are observed when the central gate voltage is varied. The ability to vary the tunnel conductance allows us to study the basic physics of the Coulomb blockade: our results show that the quantum charge fluctuation mechanism which limits the tunneling blockade at low temperature is of second order in tunnel barrier transparencies in agreement with the charge Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling (q-MQT) or co-tunneling model.     

Interaction effects and pseudogap in two-dimensional lateral tunnel junctions

Tunneling characteristics of a two-dimensional lateral tunnel junction are reported. A pseudogap on the order of Coulomb energy is detected in the tunneling density of states (TDOS) when two identical two-dimensional electron systems are laterally separated by a thin energy barrier. The Coulombic pseudogap remains robust well into the quantum Hall regime until it is overshadowed by the cyclotron gap in the TDOS. The pseudogap is modified by the in-plane magnetic field, demonstrating a nontrivial effect of the in-plane magnetic field on the electron-electron interaction.     

Tunneling current spectroscopy of a nanostructure junction involving multiple energy levels

A multilevel Anderson model is employed to simulate the system of a nanostructure tunnel junction with any number of one-particle energy levels. The tunneling current, including both shell-tunneling and shell-filling cases, is theoretically investigated via the nonequilibrium Green's function method. We obtain a closed form for the spectral function, which is used to analyze the complicated tunneling current spectra of a quantum dot or molecule embedded in a double-barrier junction. We also show that negative differential conductance can be observed in a quantum dot tunnel junction when the Coulomb interactions with neighboring quantum dots are taken into account.     

Single electron tunneling rates in multijunction circuits

The rate of electron tunneling through normal metal tunnel junctions is calculated for the case of ultrasmall junction capacitances. The so-called Coulomb blockade of electron tunneling at low temperatures is shown to be strongly affected by the external electrical circuit. Under the common experimental condition of a low impedance environment the Coulomb blockade is suppressed for single tunnel junctions. However, a Coulomb gap structure emerges for junctions embedded in a high impedance environment. For a double junction setup a Coulomb blockade of tunneling arises even for low impedance environments due to the charge quantization on the metallic island between the junctions. An approach using circuit analysis is presented which allows to reduce the calculation of tunneling rates in multijunction circuits to those of a single junction in series with an effective capacitance. The range of validity of the socalled local rule and global rule rates is clarified. It is found that the tunneling rate tends towards the global rule rate as the number of junctions is increased. Some specific results are given for a one-dimensional array of tunnel junctions.     

Low energy dynamics of two-dimensional lateral tunnel junctions

We report on the low temperature tunneling characteristics of two-dimensional lateral tunnel junctions (2DLTJs) consisting of two coplanar two-dimensional electron systems separated by an in-plane tunnel barrier. The tunneling conductance of the 2DLTJ exhibits a characteristic dip at small voltages—consistent with the phenomenon of zero-bias anomaly in low-dimensional tunnel junctions—and a broad conductance peak at the Coulombic energy scale. The conductance peak remains robust under magnetic fields well into the quantum Hall regime. We identify the broad conductance maxima as the signature of the pseudogap in the tunneling density of states below the characteristic Coulomb interaction energy of the 2DLTJ.     

Direct measurements of electron thermalization in Coulomb blockade nanothermometers at millikelvin temperatures

We investigate electron thermalization of tunnel junction arrays installed in a powerful dilution refrigerator whose mixing chamber can produce lattice temperatures down to 3 mK. The on-chip Coulomb blockade thermometers (CBT) against other thermometers at the mixing chamber provide direct information on the thermal equilibrium between the electronic system and the refrigerator. We can detect and discriminate between the heat load delivered through the wiring and that produced by the bias current of the CBT-measurement. The basic heat leak limits the minimum of the electronic temperature to slightly below 20 mK.     

压缩应变载荷下氮化镓隧道结微观压电特性及其巨压电电阻效应

电子器件可控性研究在日益追求器件智能化和可控化的当今社会至关重要. 基于第一性原理和量子输运计算, 本文研究了压缩应变载荷对氮化镓(GaN)隧道结基态电学性质和电流输运的影响, 在原子尺度上窥视了氮化镓隧道结的微观压电性, 验证了其内在的巨压电电阻(GPR)效应. 计算结果表明, 压缩应变载荷可以调节隧道结内氮化镓势垒层的电势能降、内建电场、电荷密度和极化强度, 进而实现对隧道结电流输运和隧穿电阻的调控. 在-1.0 V的偏置电压下, -5%的压缩应变载荷将使氮化镓隧道结的隧穿电阻增至4倍. 本研究展现了氮化镓隧道结在可控电子器件中的应用潜力, 也展现了应变工程在调控电子器件性能方面的光明前景.     

高温氘等离子体中的势垒贯穿

讨论了高温氘等离子体中的势垒贯穿问题。在现有高温氘等离子体参数下，氘核间必须历经库仑散射与隧道贯穿相结合的复合贯穿才能引发核聚变。冷核聚变与热核聚变在本质上没有区别，都需要借助隧道效应才能发生，它们之间的差异仅在于引发隧道贯穿效应的初始条件不同。因此，在冷核聚变研究中除了过热外．也应有放射性物质的释放。