Spintronics: Fundamentals and applications

I Žutić, J Fabian, SD Sarma - Reviews of modern physics, 2004 - APS
Spintronics, or spin electronics, involves the study of active control and manipulation of spin
degrees of freedom in solid-state systems. This article reviews the current status of this …

Photon-assisted transport in semiconductor nanostructures

G Platero, R Aguado - Physics Reports, 2004 - Elsevier
In this review we focus on electronic transport through semiconductor nanostructures which
are driven by ac fields. Along the review we describe the available experimental information …

Coherent and sequential tunneling in series barriers

M Buttiker - IBM Journal of Research and Development, 1988 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A simple approach which can describe both coherent tunneling and sequential tunneling is
applied to resonant tunneling through a double-barrier structure. This approach models …

A bird's-eye view on the evolution of semiconductor superlattices and quantum wells

L Esaki - IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1986 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Following the past seventeen-year developmental path in the research of semiconductor
superlattices and quantum wells, significant milestones are presented with emphasis on …

Evidence for LO-phonon-emission-assisted tunneling in double-barrier heterostructures

VJ Goldman, DC Tsui, JE Cunningham - Physical Review B, 1987 - APS
We report on our observation of a structure in the valley region of the current-voltage
characteristic of a double-barrier resonant-tunneling structure. We attribute this feature to the …

Probing the hole dispersion curves of a quantum well using resonant magnetotunneling spectroscopy

RK Hayden, DK Maude, L Eaves, EC Valadares… - Physical review …, 1991 - APS
We describe a novel magnetotunneling spectroscopy technique for probing the complicated
dispersion curves of hole states in the quantum well of p-type double-barrier resonant …

[图书][B] Physics of semiconductors in high magnetic fields

N Miura - 2007 - books.google.com
This book describes the basic concepts of various physical phenomena in semiconductors
and their modulated structures under high magnetic fields. The topics cover magneto …

Probing a two-dimensional Fermi surface by tunneling

JP Eisenstein, TJ Gramila, LN Pfeiffer, KW West - Physical Review B, 1991 - APS
Equilibrium tunneling between parallel two-dimensional electron systems is measured as a
function of in-plane magnetic field and sheet density. For equal two-dimensional densities …

Space‐charge buildup and bistability in resonant‐tunneling double‐barrier structures

FW Sheard, GA Toombs - Applied physics letters, 1988 - pubs.aip.org
Using the sequential theory of resonant tunneling, the dc current‐voltage characteristic of a
double‐barrier structure is calculated, taking into account the effect of space charge in the …

Noise characteristics of double-barrier resonant-tunneling structures below 10 kHz

YP Li, A Zaslavsky, DC Tsui, M Santos, M Shayegan - Physical Review B, 1990 - APS
We report on the noise characteristics of double-barrier resonant-tunneling structures
obtained from systematic noise measurements on three samples with different barrier …