Abstract
The electrical characteristics of Si nanowire gated by an array of very closely spaced nanowire gate electrodes are experimentally determined and theoretically modeled. Qualitative and quantitative changes in the transport characteristics of these devices, as a function of gate-array voltage, are described. Experiments are reported for two widths of Si nanowires, 40 and 17 nm, and for a varying number of gate electrodes, all spaced at a pitch of 33 nm. We find that these top nanowire gate electrodes can be utilized to locally deplete the carriers in the underlying Si nanowire and thus define an array of coupled quantum dots along the nanowire. Reproducible Coulomb blockade is observed, and clear diamond features are obtained when the conductance is plotted in the plane of the source-drain and gate voltages. The regularity of the diamond diagrams is imposed by the regularity of the SNAP top gate electrodes. Model computations of the electronic structure starting from a tight-biding Hamiltonian in the atomic basis suggest that the control made possible by the top gate voltage induces the emergence (and reversible submergence) of a coupled quantum dot structure in an otherwise homogenously doped Si nanowire.
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