Multitip scanning gate microscopy for ballistic transport studies in systems with two-dimensional electron gas

Abstract

We consider conductance mapping of systems based on the two-dimensional electron gas with scanning gate microscopy using two and more tips of the atomic force microscope. The paper contains results of numerical simulations for a model tip potential with a proposal of a few procedures for extraction and manipulation the ballistic transport properties. In particular, we demonstrate that the multi-tip techniques can be used for readout of the Fermi wavelength, detection of potential defects, filtering specific transverse modes, tuning the system into resonant conditions under which a stable map of a local density of states can be extracted from conductance maps using a third tip.

9 pages, 12 figures