Single-electron transistor based on a silicon-on-insulator quantum wire fabricated by a side-wall patterning method
- 3 December 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 79 (23) , 3812-3814
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1421081
Abstract
We propose and implement a promising fabrication technology for geometrically well-defined single-electron transistors based on a silicon-on-insulator quantum wire and side-wall depletion gates. The 30-nm-wide siliconquantum wire is defined by a combination of conventional photolithography and process technology, called a side-wall patterning method, and depletion gates for two tunnel junctions are formed by the dopedpolycrystallinesilicon sidewall. The good uniformity of the wire suppresses unexpected potential barriers. The fabricated device shows clear single-electron tunneling phenomena by an electrostatically defined single island at liquid nitrogen temperature and insensitivity of the Coulomb oscillation period to gate bias conditions.Keywords
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