Shot noise detection in hBN-based tunnel junctions
Abstract
High quality Au/hBN/Au tunnel devices are fabricated using transferred atomically thin hexagonal boron nitride as the tunneling barrier. All tunnel junctions show tunneling resistance on the order of several kX/lm2. Ohmic I-V curves at small bias with no signs of resonances indicate the sparsity of defects. Tunneling current shot noise is measured in these devices, and the excess shot noise shows consistency with theoretical expectations. Furthermore, these results show that atomically thin hBN is an excellent tunnel barrier, especially for the study of shot noise properties, and this can enable the study of the tunneling density of states and shot noise spectroscopy in more complex systems.
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[1]
- Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States)
- National Institute for Materials Science, Ibaraki (Japan)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- William Marsh Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1466026
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1361788
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-06ER46337
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Applied Physics Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 110; Journal Issue: 13; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 42 ENGINEERING
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Zhou, Panpan, Hardy, Will J., Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, and Natelson, Douglas. Shot noise detection in hBN-based tunnel junctions. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4978693.
Zhou, Panpan, Hardy, Will J., Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, & Natelson, Douglas. Shot noise detection in hBN-based tunnel junctions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4978693
Zhou, Panpan, Hardy, Will J., Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, and Natelson, Douglas. Mon .
"Shot noise detection in hBN-based tunnel junctions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4978693. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1466026.
@article{osti_1466026,
title = {Shot noise detection in hBN-based tunnel junctions},
author = {Zhou, Panpan and Hardy, Will J. and Watanabe, Kenji and Taniguchi, Takashi and Natelson, Douglas},
abstractNote = {High quality Au/hBN/Au tunnel devices are fabricated using transferred atomically thin hexagonal boron nitride as the tunneling barrier. All tunnel junctions show tunneling resistance on the order of several kX/lm2. Ohmic I-V curves at small bias with no signs of resonances indicate the sparsity of defects. Tunneling current shot noise is measured in these devices, and the excess shot noise shows consistency with theoretical expectations. Furthermore, these results show that atomically thin hBN is an excellent tunnel barrier, especially for the study of shot noise properties, and this can enable the study of the tunneling density of states and shot noise spectroscopy in more complex systems.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4978693},
journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
number = 13,
volume = 110,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Mar 27 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Mon Mar 27 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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