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Low temperature properties of 2D electrons in weakly disordered materials

Abstract

Full text: Transport properties of extremely high purity 2D electron systems at low temperatures are still not well understood either experimentally or theoretically, even though these systems are fast becoming a mainstream basis of computing devices. Evidence has accumulated suggesting with very low levels of impurities that a transition can be induced from an insulating to metallic state by increasing the electron density. The total number of impurities is so low that the interactions between the electrons dominate the nature of the electron state. We propose a semiempirical one parameter scaling equation for the temperature dependent resistivity at low but finite temperatures T{approx}1 K. The equation has a physically meaningful insulating limit and predicts a metallic ground state at higher electron densities. The temperature dependence of the resistivity we obtain from this renormalization group equation gives good fits to experimental data near the separatrix.
Authors:
Neilson, D; [1]  Geldart, D J.W. [2] 
  1. University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (Australia). School of Physics
  2. Dalhousie University, NS (Canada). Physics Department
Publication Date:
Jul 01, 2002
Product Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 15. Biennial Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics. Physics and industry working together, Sydney, NSW (Australia), 8-11 Jul 2002; Other Information: PBD: 2002; Related Information: In: 15th Biennial Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics incorporating Australian Conference of Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT) and Australian Optical Society (AOS). Handbook and abstracts, 235 pages.
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL INSULATORS; ELECTRON DENSITY; ELECTRON TRANSFER; EQUATIONS; GROUND STATES; IMPURITIES; METALS; ORDER-DISORDER MODEL; RENORMALIZATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE RANGE 0000-0013 K
OSTI ID:
20619930
Research Organizations:
Australian Institute of Physics (Australia)
Country of Origin:
Australia
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
TRN: AU0524608063580
Availability:
Available in abstract form only, full text entered in this record
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
page(s) 214
Announcement Date:
Aug 28, 2005

Citation Formats

Neilson, D, and Geldart, D J.W. Low temperature properties of 2D electrons in weakly disordered materials. Australia: N. p., 2002. Web.
Neilson, D, & Geldart, D J.W. Low temperature properties of 2D electrons in weakly disordered materials. Australia.
Neilson, D, and Geldart, D J.W. 2002. "Low temperature properties of 2D electrons in weakly disordered materials." Australia.
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title = {Low temperature properties of 2D electrons in weakly disordered materials}
author = {Neilson, D, and Geldart, D J.W.}
abstractNote = {Full text: Transport properties of extremely high purity 2D electron systems at low temperatures are still not well understood either experimentally or theoretically, even though these systems are fast becoming a mainstream basis of computing devices. Evidence has accumulated suggesting with very low levels of impurities that a transition can be induced from an insulating to metallic state by increasing the electron density. The total number of impurities is so low that the interactions between the electrons dominate the nature of the electron state. We propose a semiempirical one parameter scaling equation for the temperature dependent resistivity at low but finite temperatures T{approx}1 K. The equation has a physically meaningful insulating limit and predicts a metallic ground state at higher electron densities. The temperature dependence of the resistivity we obtain from this renormalization group equation gives good fits to experimental data near the separatrix.}
place = {Australia}
year = {2002}
month = {Jul}
}