Creation of a Short-Range Ordered Two-Dimensional Electron Gas Channel in Al2 O3 /In2 O3 Interfaces

ACS Nano
Sang Yeon LeeHyungtak Seo

Abstract

The tuning of electrical properties in oxides via surface and interfacial two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) channels is of great interest, as they reveal the extraordinary transition from insulating or semiconducting characteristics to metallic conduction or superconductivity enabled by the ballistic transport of spatially confined electrons. However, realizing the practical aspects of this exotic phenomenon toward short-range ordered and air-stable 2DEG channels remains a great challenge. At the heterointerface formed after deposition of an Al2O3 layer on a nanocrystalline In2O3 layer, a dramatic improvement in carrier conduction equivalent to metallic conduction is obtained. A conductivity increase by a factor of 1013 times that in raw In2O3, a sheet resistance of 850 Ω/cm2, and a room temperature Hall mobility of 20.5 cm2 V-1 s-1 are obtained, which are impossible to achieve by tuning each layer individually. The physicochemical origin of metallic conduction is mainly ascribed to the 2D interfacially confined O-vacancies and semimetallic nanocrystalline InOx (x < 2) phases by the clustered self-doping effect caused by O-extraction from In2O3 to the Al2O3 phase during ALD. Unlike other submetallic oxides, this 2D channel is...Continue Reading

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