Abstract
We demonstrate the formation of a two-dimensional electron gas in lattice-matched, modulation-doped ZnTe/CdSe quantum well structures. Despite the well-known difficulty in n doping the II-VI semiconductor ZnTe, we find that the unusual type-II band alignment between ZnTe and CdSe allows the efficient transfer of free carriers from n-ZnTe into a CdSe quantum well since the deep donor levels in the n-ZnTe barrier lie above the confined ground state in the CdSe well. The sizeable well depth (∼1.35eV) enables the fabrication of two-dimensional electron gases with sheet concentrations up to ∼6×1012cm-2, and with a low-temperature mobility up to 1.4×104cm2/Vs.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 3193-3195 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
Volume | 72 |
Issue number | 24 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1998 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)