Dresden 2009 – scientific programme
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HL: Fachverband Halbleiterphysik
HL 48: Poster 2
HL 48.27: Poster
Thursday, March 26, 2009, 15:00–17:30, P2
Phase-coherent transport and spin-orbit coupling in InN nanowires connected in parallel — •Shima Alagha1,2, Sergio Estévez Hernández1,2, Raffaella Calarco1,2, Thomas Schäpers1,2, and Detlev Grützmacher1,2 — 1Institute for Bio- and Nanosystems (IBN-1), Research Centre Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich Germany — 2JARA-Fundamentals of Future Information Technology
Semiconductor nanowires based on InN are interesting candidates for future nanolelectronic devices because the surface accumulation layer guarantees a highly conductive channel. However, the spin-transport properties are basically unknown for this material system. In order to obtain information regarding the spin transport, we investigated the low-temperature magnetoconductance of InN nanowires connected in parallel. Usually, phase-coherent transport in small conductors results in conductance fluctuations. By connecting N nanowires in parallel a considerable decrease of the fluctuation amplitude and a reduction of the variance proportional to √N can be achieved. This suppression of the fluctuations permits to study weak localization and weak antilocalization effects which are manifested in negative and positive magnetoconductivity around zero magnetic fields, respectively. From these features, information about the phase-coherence length and the spin-orbit scattering length can be obtained. At low magnetic fields we found a clear signature of the weak antilocalization effect indicating the presence of spin-orbit coupling in InN nanowires.