Electronic Quantum Transport in Mesoscopic Semiconductor Structures

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 r...

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Bibliographic Details
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
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.