Kempf, James G. and Weitekamp, Daniel P. (2000) Method for atomic-layer-resolved measurement of polarization fields by nuclear magnetic resonance. Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B, 18 (4). pp. 2255-2262. ISSN 1071-1023. doi:10.1116/1.1305287. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:KEMjvstb00
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Abstract
A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) method of probing the dielectric response to an alternating electric field is described, which is applicable to noncentrosymmetric sites with nuclear spin I>1/2. A radio-frequency electric field induces a linear quadrupole Stark effect at a multiple of the nuclear Larmor frequency. This perturbation is applied in the windows of an NMR multiple-pulse line-narrowing sequence in such a way that the resulting nonsecular spin interactions are observed as first-order quadrupole satellites, free of line broadening by the usual dominant static interactions. A simulation of the 69Ga spectrum for the nuclei within the two-dimensional electron gas of a 10 nm quantum well predicts resolution of individual atomic layers in single devices due to the spatial dependence of the polarization response of the quantum-confined carriers to the applied field. This method is part of a more general strategy, perturbations observed with enhanced resolution NMR. Experimentally realized examples in GaAs include spectrally resolving electron probability densities surrounding optically relevant point defects and probing the changes in radial electric field associated with the light-on and light-off states of these shallow traps. Adequate sensitivity for such experiments in individual epitaxial structures is achieved by optical nuclear polarization followed by time-domain NMR observed via nuclear Larmor-beat detection of luminescence.
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Additional Information: | ©2000 American Vacuum Society. (Received 17 January 2000; accepted 1 May 2000) The authors wish to thank Michael Miller for his estimates of the linewidth contribution of homonuclear J-couplings. This work was supported by NSF Grant No. CHE-9612226. | ||||||
Subject Keywords: | nuclear magnetic resonance; quadrupole interactions; Stark effect; spin Hamiltonians; two-dimensional electron gas; nuclear polarisation; gallium arsenide; semiconductor quantum wells; semiconductor epitaxial layers; dielectric polarisation | ||||||
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DOI: | 10.1116/1.1305287 | ||||||
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