Characterization of Semiconductor Heterostructures and Nanostructures - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444595511 ISBN 13: 9780444595515

Publisher: Elsevier Science, 2013

Synopsis

Characterization of Semiconductor Heterostructures and Nanostructures” is structured so that each chapter is devoted to a specific characterization technique used in the understanding of the properties (structural, physical, chemical, electrical etc..) of semiconductor quantum wells and superlattices. An additional chapter is devoted to ab initio modeling.

The book has two basic aims. The first is educational, providing the basic concepts of each of the selected techniques with an approach understandable by advanced students in Physics, Chemistry, Material Science, Engineering, Nanotechnology. The second aim is to provide a selected set of examples from the recent literature of the TOP results obtained with the specific technique in understanding the properties of semiconductor heterostructures and nanostructures. Each chapter has this double structure: the first part devoted to explain the basic concepts, and the second to the discussion of the most peculiar and innovative examples. 

The topic of quantum wells, wires and dots should be seen as a pretext of applying top level characterization techniques in understanding the structural, electronic etc properties of matter at the nanometer (and even sub-nanometer) scale. In this respect it is an essential reference in the much broader, and extremely hot, field of Nanotechnology.

• Comprehensive collection of the most powerful characterization techniques for semiconductors heterostructures and nanostructures
• Most of the chapters are authored by scientists that are world-wide among the top-ten in publication ranking of the specific field
• Each chapter starts with a didactic introduction on the technique
• The second part of each chapters deals with a selection of top examples highlighting the power of the specific technique to analyse the properties of semiconductors heterostructures and nanostructures

About this title

Review

Reviews the theory and presents real-life examples of methods used to analyze the structural, physical, chemical, and electrical properties of nanometer-scale structures and materials

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0444595511
• ISBN 13: 9780444595515
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 828
• Editor: Agostini Giovanni, Lamberti Carlo