Electron Transport in Quantum Dots

✍ Scribed by S. Tarucha, K. Ono, T. Fujisawa, W. G. van DerWiel (auth.), Jonathan P. Bird (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 481
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

When I was contacted by Kluwer Academic Publishers in the Fall of 200 I, inviting me to edit a volume of papers on the issue of electron transport in quantum dots, I was excited by what I saw as an ideal opportunity to provide an overview of a field of research that has made significant contributions in recent years, both to our understanding of fundamental physics, and to the development of novel nanoelectronic technologies. The need for such a volume seemed to be made more pressing by the fact that few comprehensive reviews of this topic have appeared in the literature, in spite of the vast activity in this area over the course of the last decade or so. With this motivation, I set out to try to compile a volume that would fairly reflect the wide range of opinions that has emerged in the study of electron transport in quantum dots. Indeed, there has been no effort on my part to ensure any consistency between the different chapters, since I would prefer that this volume instead serve as a useful forum for the debate of critical issues in this still developing field. In this matter, I have been assisted greatly by the excellent series of articles provided by the different authors, who are widely recognized as some of the leaders in this vital area of research.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Interactions, Spins and the Kondo Effect in Quantum-Dot Systems....Pages 1-42
Microwave Spectroscopy on Single and Coupled Quantum Dots....Pages 43-85
Nano-Spintronics with Lateral Quantum Dots....Pages 87-122
Novel Phenomena in Small Individual and Coupled Quantum Dots....Pages 123-157
Classical and Quantum Transport in Antidot Arrays....Pages 159-208
On the Influence of Resonant States on Ballistic Transport in Open Quantum Dots: Spectroscopy and Tunneling in the Presence of Multiple Conducting Channels....Pages 209-276
A Review of Fractal Conductance Fluctuations in Ballistic Semiconductor Devices....Pages 277-316
Electron Ratchets—Nonlinear Transport in Semiconductor Dot and Antidot Structures....Pages 317-361
Single-Photon Detection with Quantum Dots in the Far-Infrared/Submillimeter-Wave Range....Pages 363-396
Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata....Pages 397-431
Carbon Nanotubes for Nanoscale Spin-Electronics....Pages 433-456
Back Matter....Pages 457-472

✦ Subjects

Solid State Physics; Spectroscopy and Microscopy; Electrical Engineering; Condensed Matter Physics; Optical and Electronic Materials