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Electronic Properties and Stability of Semiconductor Heterostructures

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Condensed Systems of Low Dimensionality

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Owing to advances in crystal growth techniques, synthetic semiconductor structures, i.e. superlattices or heterostructures, can now be fabricated with high perfection and unusual electronic properties. Such electronic properties undergo dramatic changes because of the reduced dimensionality and the formation of novel quantum states arising from the new periodicity imposed by the superlattice. The novel behavior of carriers discovered in these systems of lower dimensionality have attracted the attention of many prominent research centers around the world. New concepts in solid state electronics have led to the design of devices with very short response times. Not only technological applications, but also the quantum behavior of electrons in such systems has become an active field of fundamental study.

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  1. IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, K08/282 650 Harry Road, San Jose, Ca., 95120-6099, USA

    Inder P. Batra

  2. Department of Physics, Bilkent University, 06533, Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey

    S. Ciraci

  3. IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, 8803, Rüschlikon, Switzerland

    A. Baratoff

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  1. University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

    J. L. Beeby

  2. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

    P. K. Bhattacharya

  3. CNRS-PIRSEM, Paris, France

    P. Ch. Gravelle

  4. Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany

    F. Koch

  5. National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada

    D. J. Lockwood

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Batra, I.P., Ciraci, S., Baratoff, A. (1991). Electronic Properties and Stability of Semiconductor Heterostructures. In: Beeby, J.L., Bhattacharya, P.K., Gravelle, P.C., Koch, F., Lockwood, D.J. (eds) Condensed Systems of Low Dimensionality. NATO ASI Series, vol 253. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1348-9_43

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