Solution

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Treat the metal gate and conducting electron sheet as a parallel-plate capacitor separated by a uniform GaAs-like dielectric. Its capacitance per area is
A gate-voltage change gives an electron-number change of magnitude
For the ordinary accumulation convention, a more positive gate voltage attracts more electrons, while a more negative gate depletes them. The magnitude is about of the preceding sheet density.
This neglects depletion, trapped charge, finite well width and quantum capacitance. The occupied-subband quantum capacitance is , much larger than here; putting the two in series would reduce the estimate by only about within this simple model.

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