title: Decomposition of 1/f noise in Al(x)Ga(1-x)As/GaAs Hall devices.
abstract: We present a systematic study of the low-frequency noise in micron and submicron Hall devices made from Al(x)Ga(1-x)As/GaAs heterostructures. In a sample with feature size as small as 0.45 microm we observe a nonmonotonic temperature dependence of the noise power spectral densities (PSD's) at temperatures where surface states and deep-level excitations are frozen out. Near the temperature where the noise peaks, the PSD's can be described by a thermally activated two-level random telegraph signal, i.e., the 1/f noise originating from switching events in the highly doped Al(x)Ga(1-x) layer is resolved into a single Lorentzian spectrum.
authors.affiliation: Center for Materials Research and Technology (MARTECH), Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4351, USA. j.mueller@martech.fsu.edu
authors.forename: Jens
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: von Molnár
authors.forename: Yuzo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ohno
authors.forename: Hideo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ohno