Title : 
Process Development toward Enhancement-Mode Strained-Si/SiGe Double Quantum Dot
         
        
            Author : 
Lu, Tzu-Ming ; Bishop, Nathaniel C. ; Pluym, Tammy ; Dominguez, Jason ; Bower, John E. ; Cederberg, Jeffrey ; Kotula, Paul G. ; Tracy, Lisa A. ; Means, Joel ; Lilly, Michael P. ; Carroll, Malcolm S.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Sandia Nat. Labs., Albuquerque, NM, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In this talk, we present our recent efforts in process development toward enhancement-mode strained Si/SiGe double quantum dots, utilizing either a 150mm Si foundry at wafer-level or a modern cleanroom setting at die-level. We focus on the following aspects: choice of gate insulator, device stability, and thermal budget.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Ge-Si alloys; elemental semiconductors; semiconductor device manufacture; semiconductor quantum dots; silicon; SiGe-Si; device stability; die-level; enhancement-mode strained-Si/SiGe double quantum dot; gate insulator; modern cleanroom setting; process development; thermal budget; wafer-level; Laboratories; Logic gates; Quantum computing; Quantum dots; Silicon; Silicon germanium; Thermal stability;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Silicon-Germanium Technology and Device Meeting (ISTDM), 2012 International
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Berkeley, CA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4577-1864-9
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4577-1863-2
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ISTDM.2012.6222413