High-Field Transport in Semiconductor Superlattices

✍ Scribed by Karl Leo (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 234
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics 187
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The purpose of this book is to review the current state of this quickly developing field. Up until now, there has been no concise review available of the rather diverse aspects of this field. This book gives a basic introduction to the concepts behind Bloch oscillations. It describes how the physics of high field transport has been investigated through a broad range of experimental techniques such as interband and intraband optical spectroscopy and transport experiments. Possible applications and further trends are also discussed.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction: Basics of High Field Transport....Pages 1-8
Semiconductor Superlattices....Pages 9-26
Interband Optical Experiments on Bloch Oscillations: Basic Observations....Pages 27-51
Interband Optical Experiments on Bloch Oscillations: Measurements of the Spatial Dynamics....Pages 53-86
Emission of Terahertz Radiation....Pages 87-102
Damping of Bloch Oscillations I: Scattering....Pages 103-117
Damping of Bloch Oscillations II: Zener Tunneling....Pages 119-150
Electrical Transport Experiments....Pages 151-199
Bloch Oscillations in Other Systems....Pages 201-207
Future Prospects and Possible Applications....Pages 209-231
Selected List of Symbols....Pages 233-235
Index....Pages 237-240

✦ Subjects

Optical and Electronic Materials;Laser Technology, Photonics;Quantum Optics;Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics;Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices