Superconductor/Semiconductor Junctions

• Main Author: Schäpers, Thomas (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2001.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 174
• Subjects: Superconductivity.; Superconductors.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Condensed matter.; Materials-Surfaces.; Thin films.; Engineering.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity.; Classical Electrodynamics.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.; Engineering, general.; Optical and Electronic Materials.
• Physical Description: IX, 150 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540455257
• ISSN: 0081-3869 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45525-6

This book describes superconductor/two-dimensional-electron-gas structures with the aim of providing a better understanding of their transport properties. The two-dimensional electron gas used for the structures described here is buried either in a III-V semiconductor heterostructure or in an inversion layer at the surface. First, the properties of a single superconductor/two-dimensional-electron-gas structure are discussed on the basis of Andreev reflection and the proximity effect. Then, the properties of superconductor/two-dimensional-electron-gas Josephson junctions are treated. The last part of the book discusses the control of junctions using gate electrodes or injection currents, and the physical effects observed in these junctions.