Electronic quantum transport in mesoscopic semiconductor structures /
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| Author / Creator: | Ihn, Thomas. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Springer, ©2004. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 270 pages) : illustrations. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Springer tracts in modern physics, 0081-3869 ; v. 192 Springer tracts in modern physics ; 192. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11065407 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I: Introduction to Electron Transport; Electrical conductance: historical account from Ohm to the semiclassical Drude-Boltzmann theory, Towards the microscopic understanding of conductance on a quantum mechanical basis
- Part II: Conductance in Strongly Interacting and Disordered Two-Dimensional Systems; The concept of metals and insulators; Scaling theory of localization; Electron-electron intereactions 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; Metallic behavior in p-SiGe quantum wells
- Part III: Electron Transport through quantum dots and quantum rings; Introduction to electron transport through quantum dots; Energy spectra through quantum rings; Spin filling in quantum dots
- Part IV: Local spectroscopy of semiconductor nanostructures; Instrumentation: Scanning force microscopies 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; Appendices: Formal.