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Phys. Rev. B 52, R17021–R17024 (1995)

Resonant tunneling through two impurities in disordered barriers

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A. K. Savchenko and V. V. Kuznetsov
Department of Physics, Exeter University, Stocker Road, Exeter EX4 4QL, United Kingdom

A. Woolfe, D. R. Mace, M. Pepper, D. A. Ritchie, and G. A. C. Jones
Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom

Received 2 October 1995; published in the issue dated 15 December 1995

In short lateral barriers of GaAs metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor, we have observed resonant tunneling through two impurities. Contrary to a steplike feature in I(V) due to an elementary one-impurity resonance, the two-impurity resonance manifests itself as a peak in the current. A magnetic field strongly suppresses the peak amplitude but has little effect on its width. We analyze the magnetic-field and temperature dependences of the two-impurity resonances.

© 1995 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.52.R17021
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.52.R17021
PACS:
73.20.Dx, 73.40.Gk