Quantized conductance in an InSb nanowire

Nano Lett. 2013 Feb 13;13(2):387-91. doi: 10.1021/nl3035256. Epub 2012 Dec 31.

Abstract

Ballistic one-dimensional transport in semiconductor nanowires plays a central role in creating topological and helical states. The hallmark of such one-dimensional transport is conductance quantization. Here we show conductance quantization in InSb nanowires at nonzero magnetic fields. Conductance plateaus are studied as a function of source-drain bias and magnetic field, enabling extraction of the Landé g factor and the subband spacing.