Tunneling and Transport in Mesoscopic Structures

Abstract

This program is focused on developing processes for the fabrication of arrays of side-by-side tunneling junctions and single side-by-side junctions. The approach combines the use of electron beam lithography, ion milling, and reactive ion etching to produce structures on Si wafers which can serve as contact shadow masks for low-temperature, with an angled vapor deposition step which is used to complete the array by forming junctions. We have produced shadow masks with 300 A-wide channels at the National Nanofabrication Facility at Cornell. We have configured our deposition system so as to achieve precision alignment of the direction of the vapor stream relative to the array structure, and proceeding with the fabrication and electrical characterization arrays. Electron microscope studies indicate that we have achieved an acceptable level of alignment for the purposes of the project, and low temperature depositions are under way at this writing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA283426

Entities

People

  • Allen M. Goldman

Organizations

  • University of Minnesota

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Electron Beam Lithography
  • Electron Beams
  • Electron Microscopes
  • Electron Microscopy
  • Evaporation
  • Fabrication
  • Field Emission
  • Hall Effect
  • Low Temperature
  • Microscopes
  • Microscopy
  • Phase Transformations
  • Scanning Electron Microscopes
  • Scanning Electron Microscopy
  • Transition Temperature
  • Transitions
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Electronics Engineering
  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Nanofabrication and Microfabrication.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Pulsed-Laser Deposition
  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems