Scanning capacitance microscopy registration of buried atomic-precision donor devices

Nanotechnology. 2015 Feb 27;26(8):085701. doi: 10.1088/0957-4484/26/8/085701. Epub 2015 Feb 3.

Abstract

We show that a scanning capacitance microscope (SCM) can image buried delta-doped donor nanostructures fabricated in Si via a recently developed atomic-precision scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) lithography technique. A critical challenge in completing atomic-precision nanoelectronic devices is to accurately align mesoscopic metal contacts to the STM defined nanostructures. Utilizing the SCMs ability to image buried dopant nanostructures, we have developed a technique by which we are able to position metal electrodes on the surface to form contacts to underlying STM fabricated donor nanostructures with a measured accuracy of 300 nm. Low temperature (T = 4 K) transport measurements confirm successful placement of the contacts to the donor nanostructures.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.