Silicon/silicon-germanium (Si/SiGe) heterostructures are useful as hosts for gated quantum dots. The quality of the as-grown Si/SiGe heterostructure has a large impact on the final quality of the quantum dot as a qubit host. For many years, quantum dots have been fab- ricated on strain-graded heterostructures. Commonly used strain-graded heterostructures inevitably develop plastic defects that lead to interface roughness, crosshatch, and mosaic tilt. All of these factors are sources of disorder in Si/SiGe quantum electronics. In this dissertation, I report the fabrication of Hall bars and gated quantum dots on heterostruc- tures grown on fully elastically relaxed SiGe nanomembranes, rather than strain-graded heterostructures. I report measurements of Hall bars demonstrating the creation of two- dimensional electron gases in these structures. I report the fabrication procedures used to create pairs of Hall bars and quantum dots on individual membranes. In addition, I explain a general process flow for the creation of Si/SiGe quantum devices. I focus especially on an ion-implantation technique I implemented for the fabrication of Hall bars and quantum dots in Si/SiGe heterostructures without modulation doping layers.

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