Cross-shaped Hall sensors with high sensitivity and excellent temperature s
tability were fabricated from quantum wells based on an InAs/Al0.2Ga0.8Sb h
eterostructure. The layers were grown on semi-insulating GaAs substrates by
molecular beam epitaxy. Maximum Hall mobilities of 215 000 cm(2)/V s with
sheet carrier concentrations of 9 x 10(11) cm(-2) were measured at 4.2 K fo
r an undoped quantum well structure. These transport properties result in s
ensitivities as high as 3 T-1 (for voltage drive) and 650 Omega/T (for curr
ent drive). Additional Si delta doping in the middle of the InAs quantum we
ll leads to a highly improved temperature stability of the sensitivities. (
C) 1999 American Institute of Physics. [S0034-6748(99)03306-7].