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Scientific and Technological Issues Related to Rare Earth Oxides: An Introduction
Significant research effort is currently being devoted to study deposition, dielectric, and electronic properties of binary rare earth oxides, as...
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Requirements of Oxides as Gate Dielectricsfor CMOS Devices
Analysis of fundamental material properties of the d-electron-based high-k dielectrics, which are under consideration for the application as gate...
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Experimental Determination of the Band Offset of Rare Earth Oxides on Various Semiconductors
The critical role of gate oxide in ultra-scaled devices is being investigated in terms of the properties of rare earth oxides as high dielectric...
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Film and Interface Layer Compositionof Rare Earth (Lu, Yb) Oxides Depositedby ALD
Thin Lu2O3, Yb2O3, and Lu silicate layers were grown on Si using Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), and studied mainly with X-ray photoelectron...
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Prospects of Quantum Cascade Lasers with GaInAs Waveguides
High-performance InP-based quantum cascade lasers for pulsed operation in the 5.5 µm wavelength range have been fabricated in the strain-compensated...
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Optics and Transport in Conjugated Polymer Crystals: Interchain Interaction Effects
We investigate the fundamental properties of conjugated-polymer semiconductors from the novel viewpoint of solid-state {ab initio} approaches, that...
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Ultrafast Buildup of a Many-Body Resonance after Femtosecond Excitation of an Electron-Hole Plasma in GaAs
On a femtosecond timescale, we observe how Coulomb screening and collective scattering build up in an extreme nonequilibrium electron-hole plasma...
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The Single Quantum Dot Photodiode -- A Two-Level System with Electric Contacts
Semiconductor quantum dots can be described as quantum mechanical two-level systems. Under the influence of strong electromagnetic driving fields and...
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A Sharp Eye on Thin Films -- Advances through Synchrotron Radiation
The availability of high-brilliance synchrotron radiation has opened new avenues in thin-film research. In recent years new experimental techniques...
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Another Semiconductor Revolution: This Time It's Lighting!
A 40 year old semiconductor technology, Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) has steadily improved performance and cost to a point where it will move from...
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Field-Induced Superconductivity in Films with Magnetic Dots
Magnetic-field-induced superconductivity (FIS) is a rare phenomenon that has been observed up to now in only very few materials. We show that this...
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New Challenges in Optical Coating Design
Modern mathematical algorithms allow to theoretically generate thin film designs that fit nearly any reasonable specification. Nevertheless, as...
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Carrier Dynamics in III--Nitrides Studied by Time-Resolved Photoluminescence
Recent results on time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) studies for Al-rich AlGaN alloys, InAlGaN quaternary alloys, InGaN/InAlGaN and GaN/AlN...
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Polarization Fluctuations and Dynamics of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers
The theoretical description of spatially extended VCSELs consequently has to consider two transverse dimensions and two polarizations. In this...
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Introduction to Semiconductor Lasers
Every laser consists of or involves -- principle -- vital parts or mechanisms: an active medium that allows light ampli.cation and some form of...
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High-Speed Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers
Spatio-temporal effects are generally important for both types of semiconductor lasers, i.e. edge- and vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL)...
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Mesoscopic Theory for Quantum Dot Lasers
In this chapter we present a mesoscopic theory for the spatio-temporal carrier and light field dynamics in quantum dot lasers. Quantum dot...
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Spatially Inhomogeneous Luminescence in Semiconductor Lasers
In this chapter we discuss the theoretical basis for describing spatially inhomogeneous spontaneous and amplified spontaneous emission (luminescence)...
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Physics of Carbon Nanotubes
A brief review is given on electronic and transport properties of carbon nanotubes mainly from a theoretical point of view. The topics include a...