Demonstration of confined electron gas and steep-slope behavior in delta-doped GaAs-AlGaAs core-shell nanowire transistors

S. Morkötter; N. Jeon; D. Rudolph; B. Loitsch; D. Spirkoska; E. Hoffmann; M. Döblinger; S. Matich; J. J. Finley; L. J. Lauhon; G. Abstreiter; G. Koblmüller

doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00518

Demonstration of confined electron gas and steep-slope behavior in delta-doped GaAs-AlGaAs core-shell nanowire transistors

S. Morkötter^*, N. Jeon, D. Rudolph, B. Loitsch, D. Spirkoska, E. Hoffmann, M. Döblinger, S. Matich, J. J. Finley, L. J. Lauhon, G. Abstreiter, G. Koblmüller

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Strong surface and impurity scattering in III-V semiconductor-based nanowires (NW) degrade the performance of electronic devices, requiring refined concepts for controlling charge carrier conductivity. Here, we demonstrate remote Si delta (δ)-doping of radial GaAs-AlGaAs core-shell NWs that unambiguously exhibit a strongly confined electron gas with enhanced low-temperature field-effect mobilities up to 5 × 10³ cm² V^-1 s^-1. The spatial separation between the high-mobility free electron gas at the NW core-shell interface and the Si dopants in the shell is directly verified by atom probe tomographic (APT) analysis, band-profile calculations, and transport characterization in advanced field-effect transistor (FET) geometries, demonstrating powerful control over the free electron gas density and conductivity. Multigated NW-FETs allow us to spatially resolve channel width- and crystal phase-dependent variations in electron gas density and mobility along single NW-FETs. Notably, dc output and transfer characteristics of these n-type depletion mode NW-FETs reveal excellent drain current saturation and record low subthreshold slopes of 70 mV/dec at on/off ratios >10⁴-10⁵ at room temperature.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	3295-3302
Number of pages	8
Journal	Nano letters
Volume	15
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00518
State	Published - May 13 2015

Keywords

Delta-doped GaAs-AlGaAs core-shell nanowires
atom probe tomography
field effect transistors
transport
two-dimensional electron gas formation

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Condensed Matter Physics
Mechanical Engineering
Bioengineering
General Chemistry
General Materials Science

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Morkötter, S., Jeon, N., Rudolph, D., Loitsch, B., Spirkoska, D., Hoffmann, E., Döblinger, M., Matich, S., Finley, J. J., Lauhon, L. J., Abstreiter, G., & Koblmüller, G. (2015). Demonstration of confined electron gas and steep-slope behavior in delta-doped GaAs-AlGaAs core-shell nanowire transistors. Nano letters, 15(5), 3295-3302. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00518

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Demonstration of confined electron gas and steep-slope behavior in delta-doped GaAs-AlGaAs core-shell nanowire transistors

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