Electronic Quantum Transport in Mesoscopic Semiconductor Structures

✍ Scribed by Thomas Ihn (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 267
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 192
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book treats three topics of electronic quantum transport in mesoscopic semiconductor structures: the conductance in strongly interacting and disordered two-dimensional systems and the metal insulator transition, electron transport through quantum dots and quantum rings in the Coulomb-blockade regime, and scanning probe experiments on semiconductor nanostructures at cryogenic temperatures. In addition it gives a brief historical account of electron transport from Ohm's law through transport in semiconductor nanostructures, and a review of cryogenic scanning probe techniques applied to semiconductor nanostructures. Both graduate students and researchers in the field of mesoscopic semiconductors or in semiconductor nanostructures will find this book useful.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Electrical conductance: Historical account from Ohm to the semiclassical Drude-Boltzmann theory....Pages 3-6
Toward the microscopic understanding of conductance on a quantum mechanical basis....Pages 7-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-23
The concept of metals and insulators....Pages 25-26
Scaling theory of localization....Pages 27-28
Electron-electron interactions within the Fermi-liquid concept....Pages 29-34
Beyond Fermi-liquid theory....Pages 35-35
Summary of disorder and interaction effects....Pages 37-38
Experiments on strongly interacting two-dimensional systems and the metal-insulator transition....Pages 39-42
Theoretical work related to the metal-insulator transition....Pages 43-44
Metallic behavior in p-SiGe quantum wells....Pages 45-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Introduction to electron transport through quantum dots....Pages 67-85
Energy spectra of quantum rings....Pages 87-107
Spin filling in quantum dots....Pages 109-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Instrumentation: Scanning force microscopes for cryogenic temperatures and magnetic fields....Pages 131-167
Local investigation of a two-dimensional electron gas with an SFM at cryogenic temperatures....Pages 169-177
Local investigation of edge channels....Pages 179-189
Scanning gate measurements on a quantum wire....Pages 191-205
Formal solution of the electrostatic problem with Green’s functions....Pages 207-210
Screened addition energy of an electron to a quantum ring....Pages 211-215
Scattering in quantum wires....Pages 217-222
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Response of a harmonic oscillator to a resonance frequency step....Pages 223-224
Acknowledgements....Pages 225-226
List of symbols....Pages 227-238
Back Matter....Pages 239-272

✦ Subjects

Optical and Electronic Materials; Nanotechnology; Quantum Optics