Presenting the latest advances in artificial structures, this volume discusses in-depth the structure and electron transport mechanisms of quantum wells, superlattices, quantum wires, and quantum dots. It will serve as an invaluable reference and review for researchers and graduate students in solid-state physics, materials science, and electrical and electronic engineering.

Inhalt

1. Electronic Properties in Semiconductor Heterostructures.- 2. Phonons in Low-Dimensional Systems.- 3. Theory of Electron Transport in Low-Dimensional Semiconductor Structures.- 4. Quantum Wires and Quantum Dots.- 5. Quantum Interference in Disordered Electron Systems.- 6. Theory of the Quantum Hall Effect.- 7. Tunneling in Semiconductor Resonant Structures.- 8. Keldysh Formalism and the Landauer Approach.- 9. Magneto-Optical Properties of Semiconductor Heterostructures.- 10. Electrons in Superlattices.- 11. Metallic Superlattices.- 12. Phonon Emission, Absorption, and Reflection from a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas.- 13. Quantum Adiabatic Electron Transport in Ballistic Conductors.- 14. Experiments on Two-Dimensional Wigner Crystals.- 15. Artificial Semiconductor Structures: Electronic Properties and Device Applications.