Electronic Quantum Transport in Mesoscopic Semiconductor Structures

• Main Author: Ihn, Thomas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2004.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 192
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum physics.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Quantum optics.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Nanotechnology.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Quantum Physics.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Quantum Optics.

 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. 

 to Electron Transport -- Electrical conductance: Historical account from Ohm to the semiclassical Drude-Boltzmann theory -- Toward the microscopic understanding of conductance on a quantum mechanical basis -- Conductance in Strongly Interacting and Disordered Two-Dimensional Systems -- The concept of metals and insulators -- Scaling theory of localization -- Electron-electron interactions within the Fermi-liquid concept -- Beyond Fermi-liquid theory -- Summary of disorder and interaction effects -- Experiments on strongly interacting two-dimensional systems and the metal-insulator transition -- Theoretical work related to the metal-insulator transition -- Metallic behavior in p-SiGe quantum wells -- Electron Transport through Quantum Dots and Quantum Rings -- to electron transport through quantum dots -- Energy spectra of quantum rings -- Spin filling in quantum dots -- Local Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanostructures -- Instrumentation: Scanning force microscopes for cryogenic temperatures and magnetic fields -- Local investigation of a two-dimensional electron gas with an SFM at cryogenic temperatures -- Local investigation of edge channels -- Scanning gate measurements on a quantum wire.