Nanopillar transistors exhibiting single-electron quantum effects at room temperature

Yue Min Wan; Heng Tein Lin; Chin Lung Sung; Shu Fen Hu

doi:10.1063/1.2056577

Nanopillar transistors exhibiting single-electron quantum effects at room temperature

Yue Min Wan^*, Heng Tein Lin, Chin Lung Sung, Shu Fen Hu

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A nanoelectronic device consisting of a Si Nx SiSi Nx nanopillar and a side electrical gate has been assembled to display single-electron resonance tunneling and Coulomb modulation at 300 K. The device features an ultrasmall quantum dot of size ∼10×10×3 nm3 and its manufacture is fully silicon processing compatible. We find a simple guideline to derive the gate-dot coupling strength α by comparison of the peak spacing in the current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of Id - Vd and Id - Vg at low voltage. The better-defined quantum cavity enables us to apply a three-dimensional single-particle model to identify the excited quantum states.

Original language	English
Article number	123506
Pages (from-to)	1-3
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	87
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2056577
Publication status	Published - 2005 Sept 19
Externally published	Yes

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