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Single Electron Transistor (SET) CgCg dot VgVg e-e- e-e- gate source drain channel A single electron transistor is similar to a normal transistor (below), except 1)the channel is replaced by a small dot. 2)the dot is separated from source and drain by thin insulators. An electron tunnels in two separate steps: source  dot  drain The gate voltage V g is used to control the charge on the gate-dot capacitor C g. How can the charge be controlled with the precision of a single electron? When a second electron tries to tunnel onto the dot, it encounters an extra Coulomb re- pulsion by the first electron. An additional gate voltage is needed to overcome that. Kouwenhoven et al., Few Electron Quantum Dots, Rep. Prog. Phys. 64, 701 (2001). FET: SET:

Nanoparticle attracted electrostatically to the gap between source and drain electrodes. The gate is underneath. Designs for Single Electron Transistors

Compare Designs for the Next Generation of MOSFETs Squeeze the device laterally, use the third dimension for the gate. FinFET S S S D D D

Charging a Dot, One Electron at a Time Sweeping the gate voltage V g changes the charge Q g on the gate-dot capacitor C g. To add one electron requires the vol- tage  V g  e/C g since C g = Q g /V g. The source-drain conductance G is zero for most gate voltages, because putting just one extra electron onto the dot would cost too much Coulomb energy. This is called Coulomb blockade. Electrons can hop onto the dot only at a gate voltage where the number of electrons on the dot flip-flops between N and N+1. Their time-averaged number is N+½ in that case. The spacing between these half- integer conductance peaks is an integer. dot  V g  e/C g N - ½ N + ½ CgCg e-e- e-e- VgVg N N-1 Electrons on the dot

The SET as Extremely Sensitive Charge Detector At low temperature, the conductance peaks in a SET become very sharp. Consequently, a very small change in the gate voltage half-way up a peak produces a large current change, i.e. a large amplification. That makes the SET extremely sensitive to tiny charges. The flip side of this sensitivity is that a SET detects every nearby electron. When it hops from one trap to another, the SET produces a noise peak. Sit here:

Gate Voltage vs. Source-Drain Voltage The situation gets a bit confusing, because there are two voltages that can be varied, the gate voltage V g and the source-drain voltage V s-d. Both show the effect of Coulomb blockade. Therefore, one often plots the conductance G against both voltages (see the next slide for data). Schematically, one obtains “Coulomb diamonds”, which are regions with a stable electron number N on the dot (and consequently zero conductance). G V s-d VgVg VgVg / 2 3 / 2 5 / 2 7 / 2

 V g >>  V sd because of C g << C sd

EE Including the Energy Levels of a Quantum Dot Contrary to the Coulomb blockade model, the data show Coulomb diamonds with uneven size. Some electron numbers have particularly large diamonds, indicating that the corresponding electron number is particularly stable. This is reminiscent of the closed electron shells in atoms. Small dots behave like artificial atoms when their size shrinks down to the electron wavelength. Continuous energy bands become quantized for a small dot. Adding one electron requires the Coulomb energy U plus the difference  E between two quantum levels (next slide). If a second electron is added to the same quantum level (the same shell in an atom),  E vanishes and only the Coulomb energy U is needed. The quantum energy levels can be extracted from the spacing between the conductance peaks by subtracting the Coulomb energy U = e 2 /C.

Quantum Dot in 2D (Disk) Filling the Electron Shells in 2D

Quantum Dots in a 2DEG Based on Strained Si/SiGe Analogy between Si 1-x Ge x / Si and Ga 1-x Al x As / GaAs (Lect. 33, p. 1,2) Strained Silicon

Silicon-Based Quantum Electronics Double quantum dot created in a 2DEG underneath the surface by gate electrodes (light gray). When a small negative voltage is applied to the electrodes surrounding a dot, the electrons can be driven out one by one, until only a single electron remains. Its spin acts as qubit. Quantum computations are performed by coupling spins in ad- jacent dots. Eriksson Lab., UW-Madison, Physics Dept. Top View

Single Electron Turnstile: Measuring Current One Electron at a Time

Precision Standards from “Single” Electronics Count individual electrons, pairs, flux quanta (f = frequency) Current I Coulomb Blockade Voltage V Josephson Effect Resistance R Quantum Hall Effect I = e  f V = h/2e ·f V/I = R = h/e 2