Physics and Applications of Quantum Wells and Superlattices

✍ Scribed by L. Esaki (auth.), E. E. Mendez, K. von Klitzing (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 455
• Series: NATO ASI Series 170
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book contains the lectures delivered at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Physics and Applications of Quantum Wells and Superlattices", held in Erice, Italy, on April 21-May 1, 1987. This course was the fourth one of the International School of Solid-State Device Research, which is under the auspices of the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture. In the last ten years, we have seen an enormous increase in re­ search in the field of Semiconductor Heterostructures, as evidenced by the large percentage of papers presented in recent international conferences on semiconductor physics. Undoubtfully, this expansion has been made possible by dramatic advances in materials preparation, mostly by molecular beam epitaxy and organometallic chemical vapor deposition. The emphasis on epitaxial growth that was prevalent at the beginning of the decade (thus, the second course of the School, held in 1983, was devoted to Molecular Beam Epitaxy and Heterostructures) has given way to a strong interest in new physical phenomena and new material structures, and to practical applications that are already emerging from them.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
A Perspective in Quantum-Structure Development....Pages 1-19
Electronic States in Semiconductor Heterostructures....Pages 21-42
Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Artificially Layered III-V Semiconductors on an Atomic Scale....Pages 43-70
Molecular Beam Epitaxial Growth and Properties of Hg-Based Microstructures....Pages 71-99
Strained Layer Superlattices....Pages 101-131
Electrical Transport in Microstructures....Pages 133-157
Physics of Resonant Tunneling in Semiconductors....Pages 159-188
Thermodynamic and Magneto-Optic Investigations of the Landau Level Density of States for 2D Electrons....Pages 189-215
High Field Magnetotransport: Lectures I and II: Analysis of Shubnikov de Haas Oscillations and Parallel Field Magnetotransport....Pages 217-228
Physics and Applications of the Quantum Hall Effect....Pages 229-248
High Field Magnetotransport-Lecture III: The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect....Pages 249-259
Optical Properties of Quantum Wells....Pages 261-299
Raman Spectroscopy for the Study of Semiconductor Heterostructures and Superlattices....Pages 301-315
Far-Infrared Spectroscopy in Two-Dimensional Electronic Systems....Pages 317-346
Magneto-Optical Properties of Heterojunctions, Quantum Wells and Superlattices....Pages 347-375
Band-Gap Engineering for New Photonic and Electronic Devices....Pages 377-391
Hot-Electron Spectroscopy and Transistor Design....Pages 393-402
Novel Tunnelling Structures: Physics and Device Implications....Pages 403-421
Opto-Electronics in Semiconductors Quantum Wells Structures: Physics and Applications....Pages 423-436
Back Matter....Pages 437-458

✦ Subjects

Physics, general