Abstract
We present a new concept to reduce impurity scattering in remotely doped GaAs single quantum wells by using heavy-mass X electrons in barriers formed by short-period AlAs/GaAs superlattices to smooth the potential fluctuations of the ionized Si dopants. Electron mobilities as high as and electron densities up to are obtained in 10 nm GaAs single quantum wells in the one-subband conductivity mode without any parallel conductance. In addition to magnetotransport we present voltage dependent capacitance and photoluminescence measurements as well as self-consistent calculations to demonstrate the applicability of our concept.
- Received 24 May 1996
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.4616
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