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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....
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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...
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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....
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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,...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Empirical Molecular Dynamics: Possibilities, Requirements, and Limitations
Classical molecular dynamics enables atomistic structure simulations of nanoscopic systems to be made. The method is extremely powerful in solving...
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Light Induced Effects in Amorphous and Glassy Solids
In this Chapter, we discuss how exposure to light can affect the properties of disordered materials and review our recent computational studies of...
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Multiscale Modeling of Defectsin Semiconductors:A Novel Molecular-Dynamics Scheme
Now that the modeling of simple semiconductor systems has become reliable, accurate and routine, attention is focusing on larger scale, more complex...
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Defect Theory: An Armchair History
This introductory chapter begins with a summary of the developments of the theory of defects in semiconductors in the past 50 years. This is followed...
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Dynamical Matrices and Free Energies
The calculation of the entire dynamical matrix of a periodic supercell (containing a defect or not) provides several most useful pieces of...
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Supercell Methods for Defect Calculations
Periodic boundary conditions enable fast density-functional-based calculations for defects and their complexes in semiconductors. Such calculations...
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Defects in Amorphous Semiconductors: Amorphous Silicon
Defects in disordered (amorphous) semiconductors are discussed, with an emphasis on hydrogenated amorphous silicon. The general differences between...
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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...
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The Zintl–Klemm Concept Applied to Cations in Oxides. II. The Structures of Silicates
The structures of ternary and quaternary silicates are revisited on the basis of the Zintl–Klemm concept and the Pearson's generalised octet rule....
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Charge Transport and Catalysis by Molecules Confined in Polymeric Materialsand Application to Future Nanodevices for Energy Conversion
Polymeric materials confining functional molecules are one of the most promising materials for designing nanodevices for energy conversion, e.g.,...