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Fabrication of a Regular Array of Atomic Silicon Wires on Silicon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Takeharu Sekiguchi ,
Shunji Yoshida  and
Kohei M. Itoh
Takeharu Sekiguchi
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Physics and CREST-JST, Keio University, Yokohama 223–8522, Japan
Shunji Yoshida
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Physics and CREST-JST, Keio University, Yokohama 223–8522, Japan
Kohei M. Itoh
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Physics and CREST-JST, Keio University, Yokohama 223–8522, Japan
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Abstract

We report on the experimental realization of atomically straight, single wires of Si atoms on a Si surface. The Si wires were formed by solid-source molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) on a specific substrate prepared by a thermal treatment of a vicinal Si(111) wafer. The structures of the substrate and the atomic wire were investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). The substrate consists of an array of atomically straight step edges with a uniform structure serendipitously suitable for self-assembly of the atomic wires. The isotopic version of this structure —single lines of 29Si on 28Si— is expected to be the most basic building block for the all-silicon quantum computer [1], which utilizes the nuclear spins of individual 29Si isotopes as quantum bits (qubits).

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 832: Symposium F – Group IV Semiconductor Nanostructures , 2004 , F7.15
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2005

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