Physics of Low-Dimensional Semiconductor Structures

✍ Scribed by L. J. Sham (auth.), Paul Butcher, Norman H. March, Mario P. Tosi (eds.)

Publisher: Springer US
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Leaves: 597
Series: Physics of Solids and Liquids
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Presenting the latest advances in artificial structures, this volume discusses in-depth the structure and electron transport mechanisms of quantum wells, superlattices, quantum wires, and quantum dots. It will serve as an invaluable reference and review for researchers and graduate students in solid-state physics, materials science, and electrical and electronic engineering.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Electronic Properties in Semiconductor Heterostructures....Pages 1-56
Phonons in Low-Dimensional Systems....Pages 57-93
Theory of Electron Transport in Low-Dimensional Semiconductor Structures....Pages 95-176
Quantum Wires and Quantum Dots....Pages 177-203
Quantum Interference in Disordered Electron Systems....Pages 205-226
Theory of the Quantum Hall Effect....Pages 227-265
Tunneling in Semiconductor Resonant Structures....Pages 267-297
Keldysh Formalism and the Landauer Approach....Pages 299-331
Magneto-Optical Properties of Semiconductor Heterostructures....Pages 333-374
Electrons in Superlattices....Pages 375-406
Metallic Superlattices....Pages 407-439
Phonon Emission, Absorption, and Reflection from a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas....Pages 441-461
Quantum Adiabatic Electron Transport in Ballistic Conductors....Pages 463-498
Experiments on Two-Dimensional Wigner Crystals....Pages 499-537
Artificial Semiconductor Structures: Electronic Properties and Device Applications....Pages 539-575
Back Matter....Pages 577-588

✦ Subjects

Solid State Physics; Spectroscopy and Microscopy; Condensed Matter Physics; Crystallography

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