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This paper reports investigations of two topical areas of semiconductor physics research: the electronic properties of zero-dimensional quantum dots, and the effect of chaotic motion on the quantum transport properties of semiconductor nanostructures. Section 2 examines the electronic properties of self-organized InAs quantum dots, grown by Stranskii-Krastanov epitaxy. The dots are incorporated in the AlAs barrier of a singlebarrier GaAs/AlAs/GaAs heterostructure. Section 3 of the paper examines the quantum states of electrons moving in a quantum well in the presence of a strong, tilted magnetic field. Under these conditions, the electron motion in the well is classically chaotic. In both cases, magnetotunneling spectroscopy is employed as the experimental technique to study the electronic states.
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Eaves, L. (1997). Magnetotunneling Spectroscopy: Studying Self-Organized Quantum Dots and Quantum Chaology. In: Sohn, L.L., Kouwenhoven, L.P., Schön, G. (eds) Mesoscopic Electron Transport. NATO ASI Series, vol 345. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8839-3_5
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