Ballistic Electron/Hole Emission Microscopy (BEEM/BHEM) has been applied to imaging
and spectroscopy of Au nanoclusters (NCs) embedded into ultrathin (≈ 6 nm thick) yttria …

The electrostatic barrier of a Au/1.4 nm HfO 2/0.8 nm SiO 2/Si (001) structure was mapped
with ballistic hole emission microscopy on p-type silicon substrates to nanoscale dimensions …

Insulators play an important role in the architecture and resulting performance of
semiconductor devices manufactured today. Materials such as HfO2 and Al2O3 are utilized …

Ballistic hole emission microscopy/spectroscopy has been applied to study the electronic
structure of the hole states in the self-assembled GeSi/Si (001) nanoislands. The ballistic …

The method of ballistic electron emission spectroscopy is used for the first time to study the
energy spectrum of Er-impurity complexes in Si. The features are observed in the ballistic …

The field effect in i-InP-based heteronanostructures has been studied in InP and In 0.52 Al
0.48 As layers with an In x Ga 1− x As quantum well with a high Hall electron mobility in the …

We have obtained tunneling current-voltage characteristics for growing quantum dots of
colloidal gold in the combined atomic-force and scanning tunneling microscope. It is …

The results of integrated studies of thin-film structures based on silicon and hafnium dioxides
on silicon grown by electron-beam evaporation in vacuum are presented. The surface …