Electronic Quantum Transport in Mesoscopic Semiconductor Structures - Thomas Ihn

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Sommaire:
to Electron Transport.- Electrical conductance: Historical account from Ohm to the semiclassical Drude-Boltzmann theory.- Toward the microscopic understanding of conductance on a quantum mechanical basis.- Conductance in Strongly Interacting and Disordered Two-Dimensional Systems.- The concept of metals and insulators.- Scaling theory of localization.- Electron-electron interactions within the Fermi-liquid concept.- Beyond Fermi-liquid theory.- Summary of disorder and interaction effects.- Experiments on strongly interacting two-dimensional systems and the metal-insulator transition.- Theoretical work related to the metal-insulator transition.- Metallic behavior in p-SiGe quantum wells.- Electron Transport through Quantum Dots and Quantum Rings.- to electron transport through quantum dots.- Energy spectra of quantum rings.- Spin filling in quantum dots.- Local Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanostructures.- Instrumentation: Scanning force microscopes for cryogenic temperatures and magnetic fields.- Local investigation of a two-dimensional electron gas with an SFM at cryogenic temperatures.- Local investigation of edge channels.- Scanning gate measurements on a quantum wire.