International experts gather every two years at this established conference to discuss recent developments in theory and experiment in non-equilibrium transport phenomena. These developments have been the driving force behind the spectacular advances in semiconductor physics and devices over the last few decades. Originally known as "Hot Carriers in Semiconductors," the 14th conference in the series covered a wide spectrum of traditional topics dealing with non-equilibrium phenomena, ranging from quantum transport to optical phenomena in mesoscopic and nano-scale structures. Particular attention was given this time to emerging areas of this rapidly evolving field, with many sessions covering terahertz devices, high field transport in nitride semiconductors, spintronics, molecular electronics, and bioelectronics applications.

Zusammenfassung

"Nonequilibrium Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductors" is a well-established, specialist conference, held every 2 years, covering a range of topics of current interest to R&D in semiconductor physics/materials, optoelectronics, nanotechnology, quantum information processing. Papers accepted for publication are selected and peer-reviewed by members of the Program Committee during the conference to ensure both rapid and high-quality processing.

The proceedings of this series of conferences constitute a comprehensive source of reference of the acknowledged state of the art in the field.

Inhalt

Electron transport in curved low dimensional electron systems.- Fabrication and Characterization of InAs Mesoscopic Devices.- Nonlinear Effects on Quantum Interference in Electron Billiards.- Prediction of Entanglement Detection by I-V Characteristics.- Simulation of Entanglement Creation for Carrier-Impurity Scattering in a 2D System.- Super-Poissonian Current Fluctuations in Tunneling Through Coupled Quantum Dots.- Ultrafast Formation of Coupled Phonon-Plasmon Modes in InP Observed with Femtosecond Terahertz Spectroscopy.- Optical Coherent Control of Polariton Modes in ZnSe Single-Quantum Wells.- Optical Properties of Coupled Quantum Disk-Waveguide Structure.- Picosecond Spin-Preserving Carrier Capture in InGaAs/GaAs Quantum Dots.- Influence of Surfaces on the Pure Dephasing of Quantum Dots.- Exploiting the Non-Markovian Nature of Carrier-Phonon Dynamics: Multi-Pulse Control of Decoherence in Quantum Dots.- Numerical Study of Weak Localization Effects in Disordered Cavities.- Carrier Scattering by Optical Phonons, Two-Phonon Processes in Photon Absorption, and Spontaneous Polarization in Wurtzites.- Terahertz Plasma Oscillations in Nanotransistors.- High-Intensity THz Radiation From a Large Interdigitated Array Photoconductive Emitter.- Broadband Terahertz Emission From Ion-Implanted Semiconductors.- THz Collective Real-Space Oscillations of Ballistic Electrons in Wide Parabolic Potential Wells: an Exotic Transport Regime.- Effect of Injector Doping on Non-Equilibrium Electron Dynamics in Mid-Infrared GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Cascade Lasers.- Experimental Investigation of Hot Carriers in THz and Mid-IR Quantum Cascade Lasers.- Time- and Spectrally Resolved THz Photoconductivity in Quantum Hall Devices.- Transport Properties and Terahertz Emission in Narrow Minigap GaAs-GaAlAs Superlattices.- Investigation of Antenna-Coupled MOM Diodes for Infrared Sensor Applications.- Transport and Noise in Ultrafast Unipolar Nanodiodes and Nanotransistors.- Monte Carlo Study of Coupled SO Scattering in Si MOSFETs with High ?- Dielectric Gate Stacks: Hot Electron and Disorder Effects.- Implementation of Separable Scattering Mechanisms in Three-Dimensional Quantum Mechanical Simulations of Devices.- A 2D-NEGF Quantum Transport Study of Unintentional Charges in a Double Gate Nanotransistor.- Wigner Function RTD Simulations with DMS Barriers.- High Field Transport in GaN and AlGaN/GaN Heterojunction Field Effect Transistors.- Impact Ionization and High-Field Electron Transport in GaN.- Studies of High Field Transport in a High-Quality InN Film by Ultrafast Raman Spectroscopy.- Monte Carlo Investigation of Dynamic Transport in Nitrides.- High-Field Transport in Nitride Channels: a Hot-Phonon Bottleneck.- Quantum Transport and Spin Polarization in Strongly Biased Semiconductor Superlattices with Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling.- Temperature Dependent Transport in Spin Valve Transistor Structures.- Spin Filtering Effects in a Quantum Point Contact.- Exchange Effects in the Wigner-Function Approach.- Few-Particle Quantum Transmitting Boundary Method: Scattering Resonances Through a Charged 1D Quantum Dot.- The R-? Approach to Tunnelling in Nanoscale Devices.- Monte Carlo Simulation of Solid-State Thermionic Energy Conversion Devices Based on Non-Planar Heterostructure Interfaces.- Simulations of Inelastic Tunnelling in Molecular Bridges.- Phonon Effects in Nanotubes: Phase Space Reduction and Electron Conductance.- Carbon Nanotubes Films for Sensing Applications: From Piezoresistive Sensor to Gas Sensing.- Electro-Thermal Transport in Silicon and Carbon NanotubeDevices.- Silicon-Based Ion Channel Platforms.- Implicit Water Simulations of Non-Equilibrium Charge Transport in Ion Channels.- An Investigation of the Dependence of Ionic Conduction on the Dielectric Properties of Porin.- Physical Mechanisms for Ion-Current Levelling Off in the KcsA Channel Through Combined Monte Carlo/Molecular Dynamics Simulations.- Simulations of the Gramicidin A Channel by Using the TR-PNP Model.- Phonon Emission and Absorption by Holes in the HOMO Bands of Duplex DNA.- An Impedance Network Model for the Electrical Properties of a Single-Protein Nanodevice.- Field Effect Transistor Constructed of Novel Structure With Short-Period (GaAs)n/(AlAs)m Superlattice.- Predominance of Geminate Process of Exciton Formation in AlGaAs Layers at Low Excitation.- Electron-Distribution Function for the Boltzmann Equation in Semiconductors.- Giant Increase of Electron Saturated Drift Velocity in a MODFET Channel.- Technological Crossroads: Silicon or III-V for Future Generation Nanotransistors.- Optical Phonon Modes and Electron-Phonon Interaction in a Spheroidal Quantum Dot.- Terahertz Negative Differential Conductivity in Heterostructures due to Population Inversion and Bunching of Ballistic Electrons.- Carrier Dynamics of Single ZnO Nanowires.- Traditional Hot-Electron MOS Devices for Novel Optoelectronic Applications.- Investigation of Self- Heating Effects in Individual SOI Devices and Device-Device Interactions.- Measurements of the Electrical Excitation of QH-Devices in the Real Time Domain.- Impact Ionization and Avalanche Multiplication in AlGaAs: a Time-Resolved Study.- Fermi-Dirac Statistics in Monte Carlo Simulations of InGaAs MOSFETs.- Monte Carlo Study of the Suppression of Diffusion Noise.- TeraHertz Emission From Nanometric HEMTs Analyzed byNoise Spectra.- Electron Transport in Novel Sb-based Quantum Cascade Lasers.- Quantum Phonon-Limited High-Field Electron Transport in Semiconductors.- Transit Time and Velocity Distribution Functions in Decananometer Gate-Length SOI MOSFETs.- Collision of Fano Resonances in a Molecular Ring.- Simulation of Domain Formation in p-Si/SiGe Quantum Cascade Structures.- Calculation of Optical Gain and Electron Relaxation Rates in Single- and Double-Phonon Resonant Quantum Cascade Lasers in a Magnetic Field.- Curvature-Dependent Conductance Resonances in Quantum Cavities.- Mid-Infrared Optical Absorption in Germanium Under Intense Laser Fields.- Interface Related Radiative Recombination on a Type-II Broken-Gap Single GalnAsSb/InAs Heterojunction.- Drift and Diffusion in Superlattices Within the Wannier-Stark Approach.- Ballistic Transport in Arbitrary Oriented Nanowire MOSFETs.- Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Ultrathin Silicon-on-Insulator.- Effect of Regular and Irregular Potential Perturbations in Mesoscopic Cavities.- Simulation of Electronic/Ionic Mixed Conduction in Solid Ionic Memories.- Full-Band Modeli…