Coulomb blockade in a nanoscale phosphorus-in-silicon island

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2005-10-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0510488v4

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

accepted into the proceedings of MNE 2005 in Microelectronic Engineering

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We study the low temperature electrical transport behaviour of a silicon single electron transistor. The island and leads are defined by patterned phosphorus doped regions achieved by ion implantation through a polymer resist mask. In the device a 50 nm diameter island, containing ~600 donors and having a metallic density of states, is separated from source and drain leads by undoped silicon tunnel barriers. The central island and tunnel barriers are covered by a surface gate in a field effect transistor geometry allowing the coupling between the leads and island to be controlled. Coulomb blockade due to charging of the doped island is measured, the oscillation period is observed to be constant while the charging energy is dependent on the surface gate voltage. We discuss the possibilities of approaching the few electron regime in these structures, with the aim of observing and manipulating discrete quantum mechanical states.

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