Nonlinear electron transport in normally pinched-off quantum wire

Details Nonlinear electron transport in normally pinched-off quantum wire Nonlinear electron transport in normally pinched-off quantum wire

2000-03-31

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0003509v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

LaTeX 2e (epl.cls) 6 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i2000-00489-5

Nonlinear electron transport in normally pinched-off quantum wires was studied. The wires were fabricated from AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures with high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas by electron beam lithography and following wet etching. At certain critical source-drain voltage the samples exhibited a step rise of the conductance. The differential conductance of the open wires was noticeably lower than e^2/h as far as only part of the source-drain voltage dropped between source contact and saddle-point of the potential relief along the wire. The latter limited the electron flow injected to the wire. At high enough source-drain voltages the decrease of the differential conductance due to the real space transfer of electrons from the wire in GaAs to the doped AlGaAs layer was found. In this regime the sign of differential magnetoconductance was changed with reversing the direction of the current in the wire or the magnetic field, whet the magnetic field lies in the heterostructure plane and is directed perpendicular to the current. The dependence of the differential conductance on the magnetic field and its direction indicated that the real space transfer events were mainly mediated by the interface scattering.

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