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University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory

Semiconductor Physics Group

The Semiconductor Physics group investigates fundamental electronic phenomena using advanced, often unique, semiconductor structures. High-quality GaAs-AlGaAs wafers can be grown in our Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) machines, and the surface, or buried layers, patterned using optical, electron beam, or ion beam lithography. The structures made may consist, for example, of gates above a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). When a negative voltage is applied to the gates, the 2DEG is depleted, leaving electrons only in regions not covered by the gates. Thus electrons may be confined to narrow channels or boxes of whatever shape is required. This allows us to investigate one or zero-dimensional effects. The devices can be made small enough that electrons suffer no collisions there, provided low enough temperatures (4K or even 100mK) are used.
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The SP Group is actively developing new processing and patterning techniques, and looking at the fascinating physics that these techniques make accessible.

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