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Anisotropic Substrates
A prerequisite for infrared ellipsometry investigations of semiconductor layer structures is an accurate knowledge of the substrate materials’...
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The Active Carrier Plasma: Ultrafast Microscopic Dynamics and Spatio-Spectral Gratings
In this chapter we will analyze the dynamic physical processes in the active charge carrier plasma of a semiconductor laser. Calculation and...
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4 × 4 Transfer Matrix T p for Dielectric Helical Films
Dielectric helical thin films (DHTF’s) are described by a homogeneous rotation of an arbitrarily oriented symmetric dielectric function tensor ɛ...
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Polaritons in Semiconductor Layer Structures
The infrared optical response of layered structures composed of polar semiconductor materials is strongly influenced by resonant excitation of...
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Infrared Model Dielectric Functions
This chapter reviews a selection of dielectric function models progressed for lineshape analysis of (far) infrared ellipsometry data. Contributions...
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Zincblende-Structure Materials (III–V)
The following chapters will provide different examples including various semiconductor materials of contemporary interest and with diverse...
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Polymer-Defined Semiconductor Nanostructures
Semiconductor nanostructures with sizes down to a few nanometers can be defined in different, highly parallel processes with the aid of polymers. In...
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Quantum Cascade Lasers for the Mid-infrared Spectral Range: Devices and Applications
Quantum cascade lasers emitting at λ∼5 µm based on different active region designs are investigated. Using lattice-matched GaInAs/AlInAs on InP...
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From Digital to Analogue Magnetoelectronics: Theory of Transport in Non-collinear Magnetic Nanostructures
Magnetoelectronics is mainly digital, i.e. governed by up and down magnetizations. In contrast, analogue magnetoelectronics makes use of phenomena...
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Models for Food Webs
Food webs are complex systems of many interacting biological species. After summarizing some of their properties, this contribution presents...
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Modeling of Metals and Metal Sponges via Embedded Particle Computer Simulation
In this article we review the embedded atom method when adapted to study solid friction and the mechanical behavior of model metals. The method...
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Order Out of Noise: Maximizing Coherence of Noisy Oscillators
In many nonlinear systems noise can play a constructive role, leading to an appearance of an ordered state. In this paper we describe the effects of...
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Fractional Aharonov-Bohm Oscillations in a Kondo Correlated Few-Electron Quantum Ring
We investigate a small quantum ring fabricated by local oxidation with an atomic force microscope. For strong tunnel coupling to the leads we observe...
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AC-Calorimetry at High Pressure and Low Temperature
Recent developments of the ac-calorimetric technique adapted for the needs of high pressure experiments are discussed. A semi-quantitative...
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Hidden Pseudogap and Superconductivity in Electron Doped High-Temperature Superconductors
The ground state of superconductors is characterized by the long range order of condensed Cooper-pairs. While this is the only order in conventional...
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Ultrafast Scanning Tunneling Microscopy: Principles and Applications
The growing field of nanotechnology requires special tools capable of probing ultrafast surface dynamics on atomic scales in order to unveil...
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Overview
A review on ferroelectric thin films used for nonvolatile random access memories is given. Particular attention is paid to fundamental...
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Capacitor-on-Metal/Via-Stacked-Plug (CMVP) Memory Cell Technologies and Application to a Nonvolatile SRAM
A capacitor-on-metal/via-stacked-plug (CMVP) memory cell was developed for the 0.25 micr meter CMOS logic embedded FeRAM. Using a 445 C MOCVD...
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Real-Space Renormalization and Energy-Level Statistics at the Quantum Hall Transition
We review recent applications of the real-space renormalization group (RG) approach to the integer quantum Hall (QH) transition. The RG approach,...
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Interaction of Palladium Nano-Crystals with Hydrogen During PECVD Growth of Carbon Nanotubes
Using plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) with Acetylene and Ammoniac on Pd-specimens Carbon nanotubes (CNT) could be produced...