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Electrical Characterization of Rare Earth Oxides Grown by Atomic Layer Deposition
In this contribution, we investigate the electrical properties of thin (3–30 nm) Lu2O3 and Yb2O3 oxides grown on silicon by atomic layer depostion.... -
Rare Earth Oxides Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy for Ultimate Scaling
Combination of lanthanum and other rare earth oxides with HfO2 yields stable compounds which withstand transistor processing and have low gate... -
Atomic Layer Deposition of Rare Earth Oxides
The principles of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) for thin film growth are briefly introduced, emphasizing the aspects of a self-limiting mechanism.... -
Sesquioxides as Host Materialsfor Rare-Earth-Doped Bulk Lasersand Active Waveguides
This Chapter focuses on the optical applications of rare-earth oxides. Due to their thermo-mechanical properties, the sesquioxides of yttrium,... -
Domain-Wall Dynamics in Nanowiresand Nanostrips
In nanowires or nanostrips, the magnetic domain walls have structures that depend sensitively on the transverse sizes of these samples. These... -
HgTe, CdTe, (Cd,Hg)Te, Cd(Te,Se), Cd(Te,S), ZnTe, HgSe, CdSe, Cd(Se,S), (Cd,Mn)Se, (Cd,Zn)Se quantum dots-nanocrystals
This document is part of subvolume C2 'Optical Properties', of volume 34 'Semiconductor quantum structures' of Landolt-Börnstein, Group III,... -
Domain-Wall Dynamicsin Magnetic Logic Devices
Domain walls propagate very well through magnetic nanowires and have been used to demonstrate a logic scheme in which the two stable magnetization... -
Local Structure, Composition and Electronic Properties of Rare Earth Oxide Thin Films Studied Using Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy Techniques (TEM-EELS)
This contribution aims to demonstrate the ability of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and its associated techniques, high-resolution... -
Electronic Structure of Rare Earth Oxides
The electronic structures of dioxides, REO2, and sesquioxides, RE2O3, of the rare earths, RE=Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy and Ho, are... -
Requirements of Precursors for MOCVDand ALD of Rare Earth Oxides
This Chapter gives an account of the coordination chemistry of precursors for MOCVD and ALD of rare earth oxides. It opens with a brief introduction... -
Fabrication and Characterization of Rare Earth Scandate Thin Films Prepared by Pulsed Laser Deposition
The continuous structure size reduction in semiconductor technology is leading to a considerable attention for advanced high-κ dielectrics. The rare... -
Infrared Model Dielectric Functions
This chapter reviews a selection of dielectric function models progressed for lineshape analysis of (far) infrared ellipsometry data. Contributions... -
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... -
Polaritons in Semiconductor Layer Structures
The infrared optical response of layered structures composed of polar semiconductor materials is strongly influenced by resonant excitation of... -
Zincblende-Structure Materials (III–V)
The following chapters will provide different examples including various semiconductor materials of contemporary interest and with diverse... -
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,... -
Evidence for a Metal-Insulator Transition in Overdoped Cuprates: New Raman Results
Transport properties play a major role in the characterization of correlated metals such as the cuprates. The usual dc and optical conductivity... -
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... -
Models for Food Webs
Food webs are complex systems of many interacting biological species. After summarizing some of their properties, this contribution presents... -
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...