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Electronic Quantum Transport in Mesoscopic Semiconductor Structures

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  • © 2004

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Authors:
  1. Thomas Ihn

    1. Solid-State Laboratory, ETH Hoenggerber, Zurich, Switzerland

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Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics (STMP, volume 192)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  3. Conductance in Strongly Interacting and Disordered Two-Dimensional Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-23
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    2. The concept of metals and insulators

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      Pages 25-26

    3. Scaling theory of localization

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      Pages 27-28

    4. Electron-electron interactions within the Fermi-liquid concept

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      Pages 29-34

    5. Beyond Fermi-liquid theory

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      Pages 35-35

    6. Summary of disorder and interaction effects

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      Pages 37-38

    7. Experiments on strongly interacting two-dimensional systems and the metal-insulator transition

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      Pages 39-42

    8. Theoretical work related to the metal-insulator transition

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      Pages 43-44

    9. Metallic behavior in p-SiGe quantum wells

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      Pages 45-64

  4. Electron Transport through Quantum Dots and Quantum Rings

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Introduction to electron transport through quantum dots

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      Pages 67-85

    3. Energy spectra of quantum rings

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      Pages 87-107

    4. Spin filling in quantum dots

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      Pages 109-127
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The physics of semiconductors has seen an enormous evolution within the last ?fty years. Countless achievements have been made in scienti?c research and device applications have revolutionized everyday life. We have learned how to customize materials in order to tailor their optical as well as electronic properties. The on- ing trend toward device miniaturization has been the driving force on the appli- tion side and it has fertilized fundamental research. Nowadays, advanced processing techniques allow the fabrication of sub-micron semiconductor structures in many university research laboratories. At the same time, experiments down to millikelvin temperatures allow researchers to anticipate the observation of quantum phenomena, so far hidden at room temperature by the large thermal energy and strong dephasing. The ?eld of mesoscopic physics deals with systems under experimental con- tions where several quantum length scales for electrons such as system size and phase coherence length, or phase coherence length and elastic mean free path, are compa- ble. Intense research over the last twenty years has revealed an enormous richness of quantum effects in mesoscopic semiconductor physics, which is typically charact- ized by an interplay of quantum interference and many-body interactions. The most famous phenomena are probably the integer and fractional quantum Hall effects, the quantization of conductance through a quantum point contact, the Aharonov–Bohm effect, and single-electron charging of quantum dots.

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  • Solid-State Laboratory, ETH Hoenggerber, Zurich, Switzerland

    Thomas Ihn

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