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A silicon nanowire with a Coulomb blockade effect at room temperature
(2002-05-17)
Hu, SF
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Wong, WZ
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Liu, SS
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Wu, YC
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Sung, CL
An extremely narrow and thin silicon wire has been fabricated on a silicon-on-insulator wafer (see Figure). The room-temperature Coulomb blockade effects as well as the influence of a capacitively coupled gate on the transport properties of this conducting silicon quantum wire are studied. The results obtained are encouraging for the application of such wires in single-electron transistors.
Room temperature two-terminal characteristics in silicon nanowires
(2003-02-01)
Hu, SF
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Wong, WZ
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Liu, SS
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Wu, YC
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Sung, CL
Quantum effects in silicon nanowires due to one-dimensional carrier confinement were observed at room temperature. Electrical transport properties were measured, on narrow thin-silicon-on-insulator wires that were defined by e-beam lithography and further narrowed and thinned down by oxidation to a final thickness of around 3 nm, and a width of 29 nm. The room temperature current-voltage characteristics of the resulting silicon nanowires are shown to exhibit a zero current state may be due to the occurrence of Coulomb blockade. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved