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Left: Wafer structures– undoped (top) and n-type doped (bottom). Right: Completed device on undoped wafer and electron microscope image. Credit: FLEET

A UNSW-led collaboration has found that removing random doping in quantum electronic devices dramatically improves their reproducibility—a key requirement for future applications such as quantum-information processing and spintronics.

The quantum reproducibility challenge

The challenge with making is that, until now, it has not been possible to make two quantum transistors that identical performance characteristics.

Although the devices look identical physically, their electrical performance can vary dramatically from one to the next. This makes integrating multiple quantum components into a complete quantum circuit challenging.

In the new, UNSW-led study, researchers show that the problem comes from the random spatial position of dopants in quantum devices.

The conventional approach to making semiconductors conduct electricity is to chemically dope it with another element. For example a very small amount of phosphorus atoms added to silicon produce an excess of free electrons, allowing an to flow

But in nanoscale quantum devices the random positioning of these dopants means that no two devices show identical characteristics.

The UNSW-led team worked with collaborators in Cambridge to show removing the dopants altogether makes quantum devices dramatically more reproducible.

Lead author Ashwin Srinivasan commented: "The electrical gain of the undoped quantum point contact transistors is up to three times more uniform for the new approach, compared to conventional doped devices."

Professor Hamilton, head of the Quantum Devices laboratory at UNSW, Sydney, said: "We had suspected that removing the random doping would improve the device , but the results were vastly better than we anticipated. Ashwin made nine devices, and all showed identical quantum properties and electrical performance. I'd never seen anything like that before. This work shows that it is possible to reproducibly manufacture quantum devices."

Improving reproducibility of quantum devices with completely undoped architectures was published in Applied Physics Letters.


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More information: A. Srinivasan et al. Improving reproducibility of quantum devices with completely undoped architectures, Applied Physics Letters (2020). DOI: 10.1063/5.0024923
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