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Doctoral Thesis
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11606/T.76.2007.tde-05092007-214247
Document
Author
Full name
Márcio Boer Ribeiro
E-mail
Institute/School/College
Knowledge Area
Date of Defense
Published
São Carlos, 2007
Supervisor
Committee
Poussep, Iouri (President)
Gobato, Yara Galvão
Goussev, Guennadii Michailovich
Guimaraes, Francisco Eduardo Gontijo
Sipahi, Guilherme Matos
Title in Portuguese
Estudo de propriedades de magnetotransporte eletrônico em super-redes semicondutoras GaAs/AlGaAs
Keywords in Portuguese
Magnetotransporte
Semicondutores
Super-redes
Abstract in Portuguese
Exploramos a magnetoresistência em super-redes periódicas de GaAs/AlGaAs com diferentes forças de desordem, produzida pela variação do potencial ou introduzida por rugosidades interfaciais. Nessas super-redes, dependendo da desordem, identificamos diferentes regimes de transporte quântico: os regimes de localização fraca, propagativo e difusivo, e o regime de localização forte, isolante. Nossos resultados sugerem diferentes mecanismos de defasagem da função de onda eletrônica nos limites da localização fraca e forte. A transição metal-isolante manifesta-se em correspondente modificação da interferência quântica, mostrando uma modificação na magnetoresistência quando passamos de sistemas metálicos para isolantes. Estudamos ainda a energia de acoplamento vertical nas super-redes, modificada pela variação da espessura do poço quântico, e isso revelou um significativo decréscimo do acoplamento com o aumento da desordem. Estudamos a coerência de elétrons em super-redes desordenadas GaAs/Al0,3Ga0,7As em função do acoplamento vertical entre as camadas. Dependendo da relação da energia de desordem com a energia de Fermi, identificamos um regime de transporte difusivo coerente ou incoerente. Através das medidas de magnetoresistência nos dois regimes, conseguimos obter a energia de acoplamento vertical, o comprimento de coerência vertical e o tempo de defasagem do elétron no plano das camadas. A comparação entre esses valores, nos permitiu investigar a influência da desordem na coerência das quasiparticulas. Por fim, investigamos também em super-redes intencionalmente desordenadas GaAs/AlxGaAs1-x, a influência da desordem anisotrópica na interferência quântica. No caso de uma desordem suficientemente forte, encontramos uma anisotropia do tempo de defasagem eletrônico, que se mostrou menor na direção da desordem. Os efeitos de anisotropia foram mais fortes no regime de transporte isolante que no regime metálico. Verificamos também a relação de escala para o campo magnético nas correções de magnetoresistência.
Title in English
Magnetotransport phenomena in GaAs/AlGaAs disordered superlattices
Keywords in English
Magnetrotransport
Semiconductors
Ssuperlattices
Abstract in English
The magnetoresistance was explored in GaAs/AlGaAs superlattices with different strengths of disorder produced either by random variation of the well thickness or by interface roughness. Depending on the disorder strength, three different regimes of the quantum transport were distinguished: the regimes of weak localization identified as the regimes of propagative and diffusive Fermi surfaces and strongly localized insulating regime. Our results imply different dephasing mechanisms in the weak and strong localization limits, which indicates the quantum inference across metal-to-insulator transition by modification of magetoresistance. The vertical coupling energies in the superlattices determined with the random variation of the well thicknesses revealed a significant decrease with increasing disorder strength. The crossover form interlayer coherent to interlayer incoherent transport was studied in intentionally disordered GaAs/Al0,3Ga0,7As as a function of the vertical interlayer coupling. Depending on the relation of the disorder energy and Fermi energy, the coherent and incoherent diffusive transport regimes were distinguished. The vertical coupling energy, the vertical coherence length, and the in-plane phase-breaking time were obtained by magnetoresistance measurements in the coherent and incoherent regimes. Comparing these values, we investigated the influence of disorder on the quasiparticles coherence. Moreover, the influence of anisotropic disorder on quantum interference was studied in the intentionally disordered GaAs/AlxGaAs1-x superlattices. In case of sufficiently strong disorder the quantum interference exhibited a structural dependence resulting in the anisotropy of the phase-breaking time, which was found shorter in the direction of the disorder. The anisotropy effects were shown stronger in the insulating transport regime than in the metallic one. In this study, we prove the effects of anisotropy of the weak-field magnetoresistance by scaling magnetic field relation.
 
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