Single-Electron Tunneling and Mesoscopic Devices: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference SQUID '91 (Sessions on SET and Mesoscopic Devices), ... Series in Electronics and Photonics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540551328 ISBN 13: 9783540551324

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 1992

Synopsis

Single-electron tunneling (SET) and related phenomena have recently come to be considered as "hot topics". This also became apparent when we organized the 4th International Conference on Superconducting and Quantum Effect Devices and Their Applications, SQUID'91, which was held June 18-21, 1991, in Berlin, Germany. Impressed by the number of contributions dedicated to the new physics of ultrasmall devices, we deemed it appropriate to devote this volume of the Springer Series in Electronics and Photonics to these specialized proceedings. The other contributions presented at SQUID'91, which are more conventional in character but nevertheless contain excitingly innovative results, are published separately as Volume 64 of the series Springer Proceedings in Physics. At first glance it seems strange that a conference abbreviated SQUID'91 should attract so many papers on non-superconducting devices, and in fact the first SQUID'XX conferences dealt exclusively with the physics and technology of Josephson junctions, SQUIDs and other superconducting devices and their ap- plications. However, many concepts developed for superconducting devices, like tunneling, flux quantization, and flux-charge conjugation, appeared to be suitable for ultrasmall non-superconducting structures as well, and many researchers in the field of superconducting devices extended their activities accordingly. Thus the extension of the conference programme evolved quite informally. Meanwhile, the meetings established themselves as well-known conference series tradition- ally appreciated by the SQUID community for its balanced mixture of physics and technology, review and preview. SQUID'XX became a kind of a trademark.

About this title

Synopsis

The trend in electronics to reduce device dimensions well below the sub-micron scale inevitably leads to mesoscopic devices - devices that exhibit quantum effects. These effects have to be taken into account and may even be exploited when developing more and more miniaturized electronic circuits. This book introduces recent results of active research on such phenomena, with an emphasis on single-electron tunnelling (SET). Besides a presentation of theoretical aspects and experimental results of single-electron tunnelling in tunnel junctions, junction arrays and one-and-two-dimensional electron gas systems, a collection of other quantum effects in mesoscopic devices and phenomena in semi-/superconducting junctions are treated in detail. The purpose of this volume is to provide an up-to-date reference book on the status of a field that is just emerging and promises a future of new physics, electronics and technology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540551328
• ISBN 13: 9783540551324
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Klitzing K. V.
• Number of pages: 317
• Editor: Koch Hans, Lubbig Heinz