Quantum Transport in Ultrasmall Devices

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• Lectures.- to Quantum Transport.- Traditional Modelling of Semiconductor Devices.- Quantum Confined Systems: Wells, Wires, and Dots.- Fabrication of Nanoscale Devices.- Artificial Impurities in Quantum Wires and Dots.- Mesoscopic Devices—What are They.- Trajectories in Quantum Transport.- Two-Dimensional Dynamics of Electrons Passing Through a Point Contact.- Localized Acoustic Phonons in Low Dimensional Structures.- Conductance in Quantum Boxes: Interference and Single Electron Effects.- Quantum Traffic Theory of Single Electron Transport in Nanostructures.- Some Recent Developments in Quantum Transport in Mesoscopic Structures and Quantum Wells.- Density Matrix Simulations of Semiconductor Devices.- Effects of Band-Structure and Electric Fields on Resonant Tunneling Dynamics.- Interacting and Coherent Time-Dependent Transport in Semiconductor Heterostructures.- Recursive Tight-Binding Green’s Function Method: Application to Ballistic and Dissipative Transport in Semiconductor Nanostructures.- Screening and Many-Body Effects in Low-Dimensional Electron Systems.- Quantum Kinetics in Laser Pulse Excited Semiconductors.- Statistical Fluctuations in Devices.- Multiband and Multidimensional Analysis of Quantum Transport in Ultrasubmicron Devices.- Contributed Papers.- Vapor Etching of Beam-Deposited Carbon on Silicon Dioxide Films.- Electron Heating in GaAs due to Electron-Electron Interactions.- Transport and Optical Spectroscopy of an Array of Quantum Dots with Strong Coulomb Correlations.- Three-Dimensional Quantum Transport Simulations of Transmission Fluctuations in a Quantum Dot.- Acoustic Scattering of Electrons in a Narrow Quantum Well.- Non-Ohmic Phonon-Assisted Landauer Resistance.- Acoustic Phonon Relaxation in Valence Band Quantum Wells.- StationaryTransport of Holes in GaAs.- Beating Pattern in the Magneto-Oscillations of the 2DEG in Semiconductor Quantum Wells.- Ultrafast Coherent and Incoherent Dynamics in Photoexcited Semiconductors.- Theoretical Analysis of Terahertz-Emission from Asymmetric Double-Quantum Wells.- Carrier Transport in Quantum Well Lasers: A Comparison between Different Heterostructures.- Small Signal Differential Mobility of Planar Superlattice Miniband Transport and Negative Differential Conductance.- General Conditions for Stability in Bistable Electrical Devices with S- or Z-Shaped Current-Voltage Characteristics.- Quantum Hydrodynamics: Derivation and Classical Limit.- A Transfer-Matrix Approach to Photon-Assisted Tunneling through a Driven Double-Barrier Diode.- Dynamics of Resonant Tunneling Domains in Superlattices: A Discrete Drift Model.- Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Split Gate Quantum Waveguides.- Theory of Delta-Wires.- Model and Transport in a Three-Layered Heterostructure with Thin Quantum Wells in the Schottky Layer.- Dissipation Effects in Quantum Tunneling.- A First Step for Semiconductor Quantum Device Modeling with Incoherent Scattering.- Evaluation of the Mobility in a Si-SiO2 Inversion Layer at T=0 K Using Green’s Function Formalism.- Linearized Quantum Transport Equations in Periodic Fields.- Photograph.- Participants.