Advances in Solid State Physics 40

The Quantum Hall Effect: after 20 years still a challenge for theory and experiment....Pages 3-19
Measuring the fractional charge and its evolution....Pages 21-34
Bloch electrons in a magnetic field: Hofstadter\'s butterfly....Pages 35-50
Scaling in the Integer Quantum Hall Effect: interactions and low magnetic fields....Pages 51-63
Anisotropic state of two-dimensional electron gas in high Landau levels....Pages 65-76
Composite fermions in quantum hall systems near ν=1/2....Pages 77-93
Quantum wires as Luttinger liquids: experiment....Pages 97-116
Quantum wires as Luttinger liquids: theory....Pages 117-132
Flow equations for Hamiltonians....Pages 133-142
Disorder, electron-electron interactions and the metal-insulator transition in heavily doped Si:P....Pages 143-167
The numerical renormalization group method for correlated electrons....Pages 169-182
Characerization and manipulation of carbon nanotubes by scanning force and scanning tunnelling microscopy....Pages 185-192
Analysis of single wall carbon nanotubes by Raman scattering....Pages 193-204
Electronic structure of carbon nanotubes....Pages 205-218
Luttinger liquid behavior in carbon nanotubes....Pages 219-231
Lattice dynamical effects on the peierls transition in one-dimensional metals and spin chains....Pages 235-250
Electronic structure and ordered phases in transition metal oxides: application of the dynamical mean-field theory....Pages 251-265
Energy and phase relaxation in non-equilibrium diffusive nano-wires with two-level systems....Pages 267-277
Beyond the tunneling model—Elastic properties of vitreous silica at low temperatures....Pages 279-291
Rashba spin-splitting and ferromagnetic electrodes on InAs....Pages 295-308
Electrical spin-injection into semiconductors-from cobalt contacts to semiconductor spin aligners....Pages 309-320
Nb/InAs(2DEG)/Nb hybrid quantum structures....Pages 321-332
The excitation spectrum of mesoscopic proximity structures....Pages 333-341
Molecular-dynamics simulations of martensitic transformations....Pages 345-360
Structural and magnetic phase transitions in Ni−Mn−Ga shape-memory alloys....Pages 361-374
Martensitic transformations studied on nano-and microscopic length scales....Pages 375-387
Nanocrystallization of Al-rich metallic glasses....Pages 391-405
Structuring thin films via ion beams....Pages 407-421
Periodic application of the sequence ‘growth and ion-induced stress relaxation’: A way to prepare stable, thick films of cubic boron nitride....Pages 423-438
Ion assisted deposition of thin layers....Pages 439-452
Interreaction of metals—The dominant influence of microstructure....Pages 453-468
Computer simulations of the dynamics in glasses and melts....Pages 469-479
Fast relaxation in viscous liquids....Pages 481-495
Confined optical modes in photonic molecules and crystals....Pages 499-514
Microwave studies of chaotic billiards and disordered systems....Pages 515-528
Tunable photonic crystals....Pages 529-543
Photonic crystals from macroporous silicon....Pages 545-559
Optical spectroscopy on single quantum dots....Pages 561-576
Index-guided long-wavelength InGaAIAs/InP vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers....Pages 577-586
Quantum dots for GaAs-based surface emitting lasers at 1300 nm....Pages 589-597
(GaIn) (NAs)/GaAs vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with high performance....Pages 599-610
High performance selectively oxidized VCSELs and arrays for parallel high-speed optical interconnects....Pages 611-625
GaSb/AlGaSb VCSEL structures and microcavities in the 1.5 μm wavelength range....Pages 627-639
Group III-Nitride heterostructures: From materials research to devices....Pages 641-656
Flat panel displays: introduction and LCDs—from physics to technology....Pages 657-668
Concerning the pairing mechanism in high- T c Superconductors—a status report....Pages 671-683
High trapped fields in bulk YBCO superconductors....Pages 685-696
Fermi surface mapping of Bi-2212 using high resolution angle-scanned photoemission....Pages 697-711
Superconducting rare earth transition metal borocarbides....Pages 713-728
Magnetism and superconductivity in granular platinum at low temperatures....Pages 729-740
Bi 2223 tape processing....Pages 741-751
AC properties of high-temperature superconductors....Pages 753-768
HTS Josephson junctions as electromagnetic sensors for low and high frequencies....Pages 769-778
Charge carrier dynamics—a key factor for fast organic photorefractive materials....Pages 781-793
Organic semiconductors: fundamentals and applications....Pages 795-808
The hard physics of soft matter....Pages 809-817
Statistical physics of learning: Phase transitions in multilayered neural networks....Pages 819-826