Download or read book Optical Investigations of Low dimensional Semiconductor Systems written by Michael Kenneth Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Transport and Optical Studies of Low Dimensional Semiconductor Systems written by Ganesh M. Sudaram and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Transport and Optical Studies of Low Dimensional Semiconductor Systems written by Ganesh M. Sudaram and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Optical Switching in Low Dimensional Systems written by Hartmut Haug and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains all the papers presented at the NATO workshop on "Optical Switching in Low Dimensional Systems" held in Marbella, Spain from October 6th to 8th, 1988. Optical switching is a basic function for optical data processing, which is of technological interest because of its potential parallelism and its potential speed. Semiconductors which exhibit resonance enhanced optical nonlinearities in the frequency range close to the band edge are the most intensively studied materials for optical bistability and fast gate operation. Modern crystal growth techniques, particularly molecular beam epitaxy, allow the manufacture of semiconductor microstructures such as quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum dots in which the electrons are only free to move in two, one or zero dimensions, of the optically excited electron-hole pairs in these low respectively. The spatial confinement dimensional structures gives rise to an enhancement of the excitonic nonlinearities. Furthermore, the variations of the microstruture extensions, of the compositions, and of the doping offer great new flexibility in engineering the desired optical properties. Recently, organic chain molecules (such as polydiacetilene) which are different realizations of one dimensional electronic systems, have been shown also to have interesting optical nonlinearities. Both the development and study of optical and electro-optical devices, as well as experimental and theoretical investigations of the underlying optical nonlinearities, are contained in this book.

Download or read book Optical Properties Of Low dimensional Materials written by Yoshihiko Kanemitsu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1996-01-18 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys recent experimental and theoretical studies on optical properties of low-dimensional materials, e.g., artificial crystals in zeolites, C60 and its related compounds, silicon nanostructures including porous Si, II-VI and III-V semiconductor quantum structures, and Pb-based natural quantum-well systems. The eight excellent detailed review articles are written by authorities on each field in Japan. All the materials introduced in this book yield new optical phenomena originating from their mesoscopic and low-dimensional characters contributing to a new research field of condensed matter and optical physics.

Download or read book Optical Properties of Narrow Gap Low Dimensional Structures written by Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Optical Properties of Narrow-Gap Low-Dimensional Structures", held from July 29th to August 1st, 1986, in St. Andrews, Scotland, under the auspices of the NATO International Scientific Exchange Program. The workshop was not limited to optical properties of narrow-gap semiconductor structures (Part III). Sessions on, for example, the growth methods and characterization of III-V, II-VI, and IV-VI materials, discussed in Part II, were an integral part of the workshop. Considering the small masses of the carriers in narrow-gap low dimensional structures (LOS), in Part I the enhanced band mixing and magnetic field effects are explored in the context of the envelope function approximation. Optical nonlinearities and energy relaxation phenomena applied to the well-known systems of HgCdTe and GaAs/GaAIAs, respectively, are reviewed with comments on their extension to narrow gap LOS. The relevance of optical observations in quantum transport studies is illustrated in Part IV. A review of devices based on epitaxial narrow-gap materials defines a frame of reference for future ones based on two-dimensional narrow-gap semiconductors; in addition, an analysis of the physics of quantum well lasers provides a guide to relevant parameters for narrow-gap laser devices for the infrared (Part V). The roles and potentials of special techniques are explored in Part VI, with emphasis on hydrostatic pressure techniques, since this has a pronounced effect in small-mass, narrow-gap, non-parabolic structures.

Download or read book Low Dimensional Electronic Systems written by Guenther Neubauer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owing to new physical, technological, and device concepts of low-dimensionalelectronic systems, the physics and fabrication of quasi-zero, one- and two-dimensional systems are rapidly growing fields. The contributions presented in this volume cover results of nanostructure fabrication including recently developed techniques, for example, tunneling probe techniques and molecular beam epitaxy, quantum transport including the integer and fractional quantum Hall effect, optical and transport studies of the two-dimensional Wigner solid, phonon studies of low-dimensional systems, and Si/SiGe heterostructures and superlattices. To the readers new in the field this volume gives a comprehensive introduction and for the experts it is an update of their knowledge and a great help for decisions about future research activities.

Download or read book Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanostructures written by Marcin L. Sadowski and published by Springer. This book was released on with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optical methods for investigating semiconductors and the theoretical description of optical processes have always been an important part of semiconductor physics. Only the emphasis placed on different materials changes with time. Here, a large number of papers are devoted to quantum dots, presenting the theory, spectroscopic investigation and methods of producing such structures. Another major part of the book reflects the growing interest in diluted semiconductors and II-IV nanosystems in general. There are also discussions of the fascinating field of photonic crystals. `Classical' low dimensional systems, such as GsAs/GaAlAs quantum wells and heterostructures, still make up a significant part of the results presented, and they also serve as model systems for new phenomena. New materials are being sought, and new experimental techniques are coming on stream, in particular the combination of different spectroscopic modalities.

Download or read book Science and Engineering of One and Zero Dimensional Semiconductors written by Steven P. Beaumont and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the Science and Engineering of 1- and O-dimensional semiconductors held at the University of Cadiz from 29th March to 1st April 1989, under the auspices of the NATO International Scientific Exchange Program. There is a wealth of scientific activity on the properties of two-dimensional semiconductors arising largely from the ease with which such structures can now be grown by precision epitaxy techniques or created by inversion at the silicon-silicon dioxide interface. Only recently, however, has there burgeoned an interest in the properties of structures in which carriers are further confined with only one or, in the extreme, zero degrees of freedom. This workshop was one of the first meetings to concentrate almost exclusively on this subject: that the attendance of some forty researchers only represented the community of researchers in the field testifies to its rapid expansion, which has arisen from the increasing availability of technologies for fabricating structures with small enough (sub - O. I/tm) dimensions. Part I of this volume is a short section on important topics in nanofabrication. It should not be assumed from the brevity of this section that there is little new to be said on this issue: rather that to have done justice to it would have diverted attention from the main purpose of the meeting which was to highlight experimental and theoretical research on the structures themselves.

Download or read book Optical Properties Of Low dimensional Materials Vol 2 written by Tetsuo Ogawa and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998-08-06 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys recent theoretical and experimental studies of optical properties of low-dimensional materials. As an extended version of Optical Properties of Low-Dimensional Materials (Volume 1, published in 1995 by World Scientific), Volume 2 covers a wide range of interesting low-dimensional materials including both inorganic and organic systems, such as disordered polymers, deformable molecular crystals, dilute magnetic semiconductors, SiGe/Si short-period superlattices, GaAs quantum wires, semiconductor microcavities, and photonic crystals. There are excellent review articles by promising researchers in each field. All the materials introduced in this book yield new optical phenomena originating from their mesoscopic and low-dimensional electronic characters and electron-lattice couplings, which offer a new research field of materials science as well as condensed-matter and optical physics. Volumes 1 and 2 are interrelated but can be read independently. They are pitched at the level of graduate students and are useful to both students and scientists.

Download or read book The Physics of Low dimensional Semiconductors written by John H. Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The composition of modern semiconductor heterostructures can be controlled precisely on the atomic scale to create low-dimensional systems. These systems have revolutionised semiconductor physics, and their impact on technology, particularly for semiconductor lasers and ultrafast transistors, is widespread and burgeoning. This book provides an introduction to the general principles that underlie low-dimensional semiconductors. As far as possible, simple physical explanations are used, with reference to examples from actual devices. The author shows how, beginning with fundamental results from quantum mechanics and solid-state physics, a formalism can be developed that describes the properties of low-dimensional semiconductor systems. Among numerous examples, two key systems are studied in detail: the two-dimensional electron gas, employed in field-effect transistors, and the quantum well, whose optical properties find application in lasers and other opto-electronic devices. The book includes many exercises and will be invaluable to undergraduate and first-year graduate physics or electrical engineering students taking courses in low-dimensional systems or heterostructure device physics.

Download or read book Optical Properties of Narrow Gap Low Dimensional Structures written by Clivia M Sotomayor Torres and published by . This book was released on 1987-06-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Optical Phenomena in Semiconductor Structures of Reduced Dimensions written by D.J. Lockwood and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remarkable advances in semiconductor growth and processing technologies continue to have a profound impact on condensed-matter physics and to stimulate the invention of novel optoelectronic effects. Intensive research on the behaviors of free carriers has been carried out in the two-dimensional systems of semiconductor heterostructures and in the one and zero-dimensional systems of nanostructures created by the state-of-the-art fabrication methods. These studies have uncovered unexpected quantum mechanical correlations that arise because of the combined effects of strong electron-electron interactions and wave function confinement associated with reduced dimensionality. The investigations of these phenomena are currently at the frontiers of condensed-matter physics. They include areas like the fractional quantum Hall effect, the dynamics of electrons on an ultra short (femtosecond) time scale, electron behavior in quantum wires and dots, and studies of electron tunneling phenomena in ultra small semiconductor structures. Optical techniques have made important contributions to these fields in recent years, but there has been no coherent review of this work until now. The book provides an overview of these recent developments that will be of interest to semiconductor materials scientists in university, government and industrial laboratories.

Download or read book Nano optical Spectroscopy of Low Dimensional Semiconductor written by Wei Bao and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The necessity to push the spatial resolution of optical microscopy and spectroscopy beyond the diffraction limit has been of high interest for almost three decades starting with the idea of using an aperture smaller than the diffraction limit by Ash and Nicholls (Nature 237, 510 - 512) and first examples on nano spectroscopy by Betzig and Trautman (Science 257, 189-195), who advertised: "two of the most exciting possibilities are localized optical spectroscopy of semiconductors and fluorescence imaging of living cells". However, albeit its enormous potential for the advancement of nano science to study at the critical length scales physical and chemical properties of nano materials that can be accessed only optically, nano optics has developed only a niche existence. The reasons are many limitations of present nano optics, which advanced specific aspects e.g. high local field intensity via the concept of optical antennae (Science 308, 1607-1609) but with major trade offs such as lack of band width, background of diffraction limited light or intrinsic geometries that enable only the study of e.g. monolayers of molecules squeezed between metal substrate and a metal tip. Here we present a wildly applicable solution to the nanoscale spectroscopy problem with the concept of a far-field to near field optical transformer that does not require the trade offs made in the past and combines record near field enhancement, enormous bandwidth, background free and complete sample independence to perform nano scale optical spectroscopy. The "campanile" transformer is the missing element that enables to perform the whole bandwidth of optical spectroscopy modalities. In the first part of this thesis, the finite element method is used compare the properties of this "campanile" structure with conventional aperture and apertureless NSOM tips, as well as state-of-the-art adiabatic-compression-type probes. These benchmarks elucidate a number of advantages of the campanile design, showing that its unique characteristics are crucial for optical techniques such as nano-Raman and nano-IR spectroscopy and nano-photoluminescence studies. In the second part of the thesis, we have experimentally used the campanile transformer to perform indeed local optical spectroscopy of semiconducting Indium Phosphite nanowires (InP NW),1D semiconductor, taking advantage of enhancement, bandwidth as well as the ability to excite and collect through the campanile, to show the influence of trap states on the local excitation energy and charge recombination rate. InP NWs have fascinating opto-electronic properties (Science 293, 1455-1457) and are expected to be the functional elements of next generation opto-electronic devices. However, many of the observed optical phenomena in nanowire systems are not understood due to the lack of spatial resolution. This work provides the necessary insight to start understanding the optical properties of nanowire and nano crystals systems. We demonstrate how the concept of optical campanile transformers convert bi-directional light with high efficiency between far and near field over a bandwidth spanning the visible to the near IR. Utilizing the campanile to perform hyperspectral nano optical spectroscopy on InP NWs revealed strong heterogeneity of the local photoluminescence, both in local intensity and spectral response, along individual NWs, due to the local influence of trap states. In the last part of the thesis, we present the first nano-optical investigation of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs). Establishing a breakthrough solution to the "nanospectroscopy imaging" problem for these materials, we cross the boundary from insufficient to sufficient optical spatial resolution, mapping critical optoelectronic properties at their native length scales. In doing so, we uncover new optoelectronic regions and spatially-varying features in CVD-grown MoS2 that were hidden in prior optical studies. We discover an unexpected edge region in synthetic MoS2 (~300 nm wide) that acts as a collection of disordered states effectively localizing carriers and excitons. Moreover, we show that significant nanoscale optoelectronic heterogeneity is present even within more "conventional" regions, and directly visualize the optoelectronic effects of key features such defects and edges - highly-soughtafter information that was unobtainable previously. By revealing key structure-function relationships at the proper length scales, these findings directly impact nearly all anticipated atomically-thin device technologies including novel quantum-optical circuitry, bio sensors and valley-based electronics.

Download or read book Effective Electron Mass in Low Dimensional Semiconductors written by Sitangshu Bhattacharya and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-06 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the Effective Electron Mass (EEM) in low dimensional semiconductors. The materials considered are quantum confined non-linear optical, III-V, II-VI, GaP, Ge, PtSb2, zero-gap, stressed, Bismuth, carbon nanotubes, GaSb, IV-VI, Te, II-V, Bi2Te3, Sb, III-V, II-VI, IV-VI semiconductors and quantized III-V, II-VI, IV-VI and HgTe/CdTe superlattices with graded interfaces and effective mass superlattices. The presence of intense electric field and the light waves change the band structure of optoelectronic semiconductors in fundamental ways, which have also been incorporated in the study of the EEM in quantized structures of optoelectronic compounds that control the studies of the quantum effect devices under strong fields. The importance of measurement of band gap in optoelectronic materials under strong electric field and external photo excitation has also been discussed in this context. The influence of crossed electric and quantizing magnetic fields on the EEM and the EEM in heavily doped semiconductors and their nanostructures is discussed. This book contains 200 open research problems which form the integral part of the text and are useful for both Ph. D aspirants and researchers in the fields of solid-state sciences, materials science, nanoscience and technology and allied fields in addition to the graduate courses in modern semiconductor nanostructures. The book is written for post graduate students, researchers and engineers, professionals in the fields of solid state sciences, materials science, nanoscience and technology, nanostructured materials and condensed matter physics.

Download or read book Isotope Low Dimensional Structures written by Vladimir G. Plekhanov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Briefs volume describes the properties and structure of elementary excitations in isotope low-dimensional structures. Without assuming prior knowledge of quantum physics, the present book provides the basic knowledge needed to understand the recent developments in the sub-disciplines of nanoscience isotopetronics, novel device concepts and materials for nanotechnology. It is the first and comprehensive interdisciplinary account of the newly developed scientific discipline isotopetronics.

Download or read book Optical Far Infrared Control of Low Dimensional Semiconductor Structures written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A program of research was carried out in which theoretical investigations into the simultaneous manipulation of carriers (electrons, holes, and ultimately excitons) and light in semiconductor nanostructures such as quantum wells were conducted. The manipulation of the carrier and optical dynamics will be achieved by the use of specially tailored ultrafast optical pulses, multicolor laser fields, millimeter or submillimeter electromagnetic pulses, or combinations of the above. Because the relevant time scale for the carrier dynamics may be less than the characteristic dephasing time of the carriers, the evolution of the system can be coherent; phase effects play a dominant role. Such shaped pulses and multicolor fields may be used to coherently control optical excitations in semiconductors in order to access quantum mechanical states, which are otherwise difficult to attain.