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Title: Development of Spintronic Bandgap Materials

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1120126· OSTI ID:1120126

The development of Ge/Si quantum dots with high spatial precision has been pursued, with the goal of developing a platform for “spintronics bandgap materials”. Quantum dots assemblies were grown by molecular beam epitaxy on carbon-templated silicon substrates. These structures were characterized by atomic force microscopy. Vertically gated structures were created on systems with up to six well-defined quantum dots with a controlled geometric arrangement, and low-temperature (mK) transport experiments were performed. These experiments showed evidence for a crossover from diamagnetic to Zeeman energy shifts in resonant tunneling of electrons through electronic states in the quantum dots.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; Basic energy Sciences
Contributing Organization:
University of Pittsburgh, UC Santa Barbara, University of Virginia
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-07ER46421
OSTI ID:
1120126
Report Number(s):
DOE-UP-46421
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English