Overview

The trend in electronics to reduce device dimensions well below the sub-micron scale inevitably leads to mesoscopic devices - devices that exhibit quantum effects. These effects have to be taken into account and may even be exploited when developing more and more miniaturized electronic circuits. This book introduces recent results of active research on such phenomena, with an emphasis on single-electron tunnelling (SET). Besides a presentation of theoretical aspects and experimental results of single-electron tunnelling in tunnel junctions, junction arrays and one-and-two-dimensional electron gas systems, a collection of other quantum effects in mesoscopic devices and phenomena in semi-/superconducting junctions are treated in detail. The purpose of this volume is to provide an up-to-date reference book on the status of a field that is just emerging and promises a future of new physics, electronics and technology.

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Author:   Hans Koch ,  Heinz Lubbig ,  K. V. Klitzing
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Volume:   v. 31
Weight:   0.585kg
ISBN:  

9783540551324

ISBN 10:   3540551328
Pages:   317
Publication Date:   03 April 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I Single-Electron Tunneling.- Single-Electronics - Recent Developments.- Effect of the Electromagnetic Environment on Single Charge Tunneling.- Manipulating Electrons One by One.- Single-Electron Transistors as Ultrasensitive Electrometers.- SET Circuits for Digital Applications.- Single-Electron and Cooper Pair Tunneling in Systems of Small Junctions Coupled to an Electromagnetic Environment.- Quantum Decay of the Coulomb Blockade State in an Array of Two Ultrasmall Tunnel Junctions with General Channels of Tunneling.- Single-Electron Tunneling Effects at the Surfaces of Oxide Superconductor Films.- II Bloch Oscillations.- Observation of Bloch Oscillations in Ultrasmall Josephson Tunnel Junctions.- Resonant Interaction of External Irradiation with the Incoherent Phase Tunneling in Ultrasmall Josephson Junctions.- III Arrays.- New Results on SET-Oscillations in One-Dimensional Arrays of Tunnel Junctions.- Charges and Vortices in Josephson Junction Arrays.- Ballistic Motion of Vortices in Josephson Junction Arrays.- Topological Excitations in Arrays of Mesoscopic Systems.- Comparison of the Transition to the Insulating State in Two-Dimensional and One-Dimensional Arrays of Ultrasmall Tunnel Junctions.- Periodic Oscillations of the Resistive Transition in Superconducting Wire Networks - Influence of Pinning and Fluctuations.- IV One- and Two-Dimensional Electron Gas Devices.- Quantum Phenomena in Microstructured Semiconductors.- Coulomb-Blockade Oscillations in Quantum Wires and Dots.- Conductance Resonances in Transport Through a Single Quantum Dot.- Resonant Josephson Current Through a Quantum Dot.- The Role of Electron Wave Modes in Optical Devices.- V Mesoscopic Devices/ Quantum Effects.- Conductance Fluctuations and Persistent Currents in Mesoscopic Systems.- Selection of One of the Different Zero-Voltage States of a Hysteretic DC SQUID.- Anomalous Behaviour of RF-SQUIDs with S-c-S Contacts of Small Area.- Variable ? RF SQUID.- Theory of Coherent Electron Transport in Impure Quantum Wires.- Theory of Quantum Conduction of Supercurrent Through Narrow Channels.- Phase Transition in Small Metallic Junctions with Quasiparticle Dissipation.- Quantum Charge Based Saturation Effect on Stationary Tunneling Between Superconductors at Finite Temperature.- Exact Solution of the Master Equation for Small Josephson Junctions.- The Flux Mode and Charge Mode Regimes in Superconducting Weak Link Circuits.- Introducing Dissipation in the Schrodinger Picture.- Tunnel Current Modifications due to Finite Tunneling Times.- Dual Macroscopic Quantum Effects in Tunnel-Type and Bridge-Type Junctions.- Quantum Fluctuation and Disappearance of the Josephson Effect in Highly Resistive Microbridges.- Printing-In Effect in NbN Granular Thin Films Caused by Electric Field.- VI Semi-/Superconducting Junctions.- Semiconductor-Coupled Superconducting Junctions - SNS in the Mesoscopic Regime.- Transport in Nb-InGaAs Contacts.- Sub-Energygap Structures in a Nb/InAs/Nb Junction.- Nino an eSquupileibrcriounmdu Tctroarn-sSpeomrti conductor Heterostructure.- Electron Transport in CoSi2-Si-CoSi2Structures.- Index of Contributors.

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