Tunneling images of a 2D electron system in a quantizing magnetic field

Abstract We have applied a scanning probe method, subsurface charge accumulation imaging, to resolve the local structure of the interior of a semiconductor two-dimensional electron system (2DES) in a tunneling geometry. Near magnetic fields corresponding to integer Landau level filling, submicron scale spatial structure in the out-of-phase component of the tunneling signal becomes visible. In the images presented here, the structure repeats itself when the filling factor is changed from ν =6 to 7. Therefore, we believe the images reflect small modulations in the 2DES density caused by the disorder in the sample.