Single Hole Transport in a Silicon Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Quantum Dot

Abstract: We describe a planar silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) based single hole transistor, which is compatible with conventional Si CMOS fabrication. A multi-layer gate design gives independent control of the carrier density in the dot and reservoirs. Clear Coulomb blockade oscillations are observed, and source-drain biasing measurements show that it is possible to deplete the dot down to the few hole regime, with excited states clearly visible. The architecture is sufficiently versatile that a second hole dot could be induced adjacent to the first one.