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Semiconducting and Superconducting Physics and Devices in theInAs/AlSb Materials System

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Advances in the understanding of mesoscopic transport have benefited from the ability to fabricate and characterize structures at the requisite dimensions (≤ 100 nm), having appropriate materials characteristics. For example, the high mobilities of modulation-doped heterostructures, with their resulting long mean free paths, have enabled the observation of quantized conductance, and Aharanov-Bohm oscillations. In addition to the high mobilities, the field-controllable modulation of electron densities has made such semiconductor materials key factors in the observation of mesoscopic phenomena.

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Kroemer, H., Hu, E. (1999). Semiconducting and Superconducting Physics and Devices in theInAs/AlSb Materials System. In: Timp, G. (eds) Nanotechnology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0531-9_15

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