Low-Dimensional Electronic Systems: New Concepts

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Perspectives of Low-Dimensional Semiconductor Heterostructures....Pages 3-20
Electronic Energy Levels in Nanostructures....Pages 21-30
Phonon Studies of Low-Dimensional Structures....Pages 31-44
Electron Transport in Antidot Superlattices....Pages 45-54
Numerical Approaches to Transport in Mesoscopic Systems....Pages 55-65
Ballistic Electron Optics....Pages 66-77
Three “Universal” Mesoscopic Josephson Effects....Pages 78-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Surface Modification with the SXM’s....Pages 85-96
Contributions of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy for Probing and Manipulating Electronic Properties in Low Dimensions....Pages 97-107
Atomic-Scale View of Epitaxial Layers with Cross-Sectional STM....Pages 108-119
Nanostructure Fabrication....Pages 120-133
Direct Fabrication of III–V Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Quantum Wires by Molecular Beam Epitaxy....Pages 134-142
Atomically Precise Lower-Dimensional Structures....Pages 143-154
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Magneto-Tunneling Between 2-Dimensional Systems....Pages 157-166
Compressibility of the Interacting Two-Dimensional Electron Gas....Pages 167-176
Finite-Size Scaling in the Dissipative Transport Regime Between Quantum Hall Plateaus....Pages 177-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
2D-Liquids and Solids in Strong Magnetic Fields....Pages 189-198
Transport Measurements on 2D Systems at Low-Filling Factors: Evidence for Wigner Crystal....Pages 199-208
I-V, Transport and Noise in the Insulating Phase Around the 1/5 FQH Liquid....Pages 209-212
RF Conductivity Study of Electron Correlations in the Small Filling-Factor Limit....Pages 213-220
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Microwave Photoconductivity of a Two-Dimensional Electron System at Low Landau Level Filling Factors....Pages 221-225
Cyclotron Resonance in the Wigner-Solid Regime....Pages 226-231
Cyclotron Resonance of Mixed Phases of a 2-D System in the Ultra-Quantum Limit....Pages 232-238
Magneto-Optics and Transport Measurements as a Probe of the Fractional QHE and the Electron Solid Regimes: Review and New Results....Pages 239-255
Correlated States of Degenerate 2D Electrons Studied by Optical Spectroscopy....Pages 256-261
Magneto-Optics of the Incompressible Fermi Liquid and the Wigner Solid....Pages 262-269
Magneto-Optics in the Fractional Quantum Hall and Electron Solid Regimes....Pages 270-279
Fermi-Edge Singularities and Enhanced Magnetoexcitons in GaAs and (In,Ga) As Square, and (Ga,AlAs) Parabolic Single Quantum Wells....Pages 280-286
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
Luminescence and Raman Scattering Studies of Ga-As-AlGaAs Quantum Dots....Pages 289-299
Optical Properties of Quantum Wires Grown on Nonplanar Substrates....Pages 300-310
Blue and Green Diode Lasers and LEDs in II–VI Quantum Structures....Pages 311-319
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
Si/Ge Heterostructures and Superlattices: Bandstructure, Optical and Electronic Properties....Pages 323-332
Si/SiGe Quantum Wells: Transport Properties and Possible Devices....Pages 333-342
New Trends in Si and Si 1−x Ge x Devices and Nanostructures....Pages 343-353
MBE-Growth and Device Applications of Modulation-Doped Si/SiGe Heterostructures....Pages 354-363