Browsing by Author "Manfra, M.J."

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    Millimeter wave transmission spectroscopy of gated two-dimensional hole systems
    (American Institute of Physics, 2012) Stone, K.; Du, R.R.; Manfra, M.J.; Pfeiffer, L.N.; West, K.W.
    We developed a differential transmission to study cyclotron resonance of GaAs/AlxGa1 xAs two-dimensional hole samples. The technique utilizes a modulated AuPd gate isolated by a Si3N4 dielectric from the sample, which is irradiated opposite the gate by millimeter waves ranging from 2 to 40GHz. This technique effectively removes the background signal and yields a hole effective mass of 0:41me with a cyclotron scattering time of 20 ps, consistent with the previous results using different techniques.
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    Transport of a sliding Wigner crystal in the four flux composite fermion regime
    (American Physical Society, 2015) Zhang, Chi; Du, Rui-Rui; Manfra, M.J.; Pfeiffer, L.N.; West, K.W.
    In two-dimensional (2D) electron systems, Wigner crystals (WC) and fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) liquids are competing ground states under low temperatures (T) and high magnetic fields (B). Here we report differential conductivity results demonstrating the reentrant insulating phase around ν=1/5 in a 2D hole system in AlGaAs/GaAs quantum wells and unexpected features in the solid-liquid phase transition between WC and FQHE liquids in ultrahigh magnetic fields up to 45 T. Remarkably, the electric field (E) plays an equivalent role as the temperature does in our phase diagram. From the E−T “duality” analysis, a characteristic length of 450 nm is derived, which can be understood as the phase-coherent domain size of WC. Moreover, evidence shows that with weak disorder the insulating phase and composite fermion liquid could be coexisting around ν= 1/5, pointing to the possibility that the insulating phase is the four flux quantum Wigner crystal, as proposed by theories.