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Title: The impact of disorder on charge transport in three dimensional quantum dot resonant tunneling structures

Abstract

Efficient iso-entropic energy filtering of electronic waves can be realized through nanostructures with three dimensional confinement, such as quantum dot resonant tunneling structures. Large-area deployment of such structures is useful for energy selective contacts but such configuration is susceptible to structural disorders. In this work, the transport properties of quantum-dot-based wide-area resonant tunneling structures, subject to realistic disorder mechanisms, are studied. Positional variations of the quantum dots are shown to reduce the resonant transmission peaks while size variations in the device are shown to reduce as well as broaden the peaks. Increased quantum dot size distribution also results in a peak shift to lower energy which is attributed to large dots dominating transmission. A decrease in barrier thickness reduces the relative peak height while the overall transmission increases dramatically due to lower “series resistance.” While any shift away from ideality can be intuitively expected to reduce the resonance peak, quantification allows better understanding of the tolerances required for fabricating structures based on resonant tunneling phenomena/.

Authors:
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  1. Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics, UNSW, Sydney 2052 (Australia)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22308157
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Journal of Applied Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 116; Journal Issue: 16; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0021-8979
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; CHARGE TRANSPORT; CONFIGURATION; DISTRIBUTION; QUANTUM DOTS; RESONANCE; THICKNESS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; TOLERANCE; TRANSMISSION; TUNNEL EFFECT

Citation Formats

Puthen-Veettil, B., E-mail: b.puthen-veettil@unsw.edu.au, Patterson, R., König, D., Conibeer, G., and Green, M. A. The impact of disorder on charge transport in three dimensional quantum dot resonant tunneling structures. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4899207.
Puthen-Veettil, B., E-mail: b.puthen-veettil@unsw.edu.au, Patterson, R., König, D., Conibeer, G., & Green, M. A. The impact of disorder on charge transport in three dimensional quantum dot resonant tunneling structures. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4899207
Puthen-Veettil, B., E-mail: b.puthen-veettil@unsw.edu.au, Patterson, R., König, D., Conibeer, G., and Green, M. A. 2014. "The impact of disorder on charge transport in three dimensional quantum dot resonant tunneling structures". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4899207.
@article{osti_22308157,
title = {The impact of disorder on charge transport in three dimensional quantum dot resonant tunneling structures},
author = {Puthen-Veettil, B., E-mail: b.puthen-veettil@unsw.edu.au and Patterson, R. and König, D. and Conibeer, G. and Green, M. A.},
abstractNote = {Efficient iso-entropic energy filtering of electronic waves can be realized through nanostructures with three dimensional confinement, such as quantum dot resonant tunneling structures. Large-area deployment of such structures is useful for energy selective contacts but such configuration is susceptible to structural disorders. In this work, the transport properties of quantum-dot-based wide-area resonant tunneling structures, subject to realistic disorder mechanisms, are studied. Positional variations of the quantum dots are shown to reduce the resonant transmission peaks while size variations in the device are shown to reduce as well as broaden the peaks. Increased quantum dot size distribution also results in a peak shift to lower energy which is attributed to large dots dominating transmission. A decrease in barrier thickness reduces the relative peak height while the overall transmission increases dramatically due to lower “series resistance.” While any shift away from ideality can be intuitively expected to reduce the resonance peak, quantification allows better understanding of the tolerances required for fabricating structures based on resonant tunneling phenomena/.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4899207},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22308157}, journal = {Journal of Applied Physics},
issn = {0021-8979},
number = 16,
volume = 116,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Oct 28 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Tue Oct 28 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}