Quantum Materials, Lateral Semiconductor Nanostructures, Hybrid Systems and Nanocrystals

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Self-Assembly of Quantum Dots and Rings on Semiconductor Surfaces

   • Christian Heyn, Andrea Stemmann, Wolfgang Hansen

   Pages 1-24

3. Curved Two-Dimensional Electron Systems in Semiconductor Nanoscrolls

   • Karen Peters, Stefan Mendach, Wolfgang Hansen

   Pages 25-49

4. Capacitance Spectroscopy on Self-Assembled Quantum Dots

   • Andreas Schramm, Christiane Konetzni, Wolfgang Hansen

   Pages 51-77

5. The Different Faces of Coulomb Interaction in Transport Through Quantum Dot Systems

   • Benjamin Baxevanis, Daniel Becker, Johann Gutjahr, Peter Moraczewski, Daniela Pfannkuche

   Pages 79-101

6. Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of Low-Dimensional Electron Systems

   • Detlef Heitmann, Can-Ming Hu

   Pages 103-138

7. Electronic Raman Spectroscopy of Quantum Dots

   • Tobias Kipp, Christian Schüller, Detlef Heitmann

   Pages 139-163

8. Light Confinement in Microtubes

   • Tobias Kipp, Christian Strelow, Detlef Heitmann

   Pages 165-182

9. Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Nanocrystals

   • Giuseppe Maruccio, Roland Wiesendanger

   Pages 183-216

10. Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy on III–V Materials: Effects of Dimensionality, Magnetic Field, and Magnetic Impurities

    • Markus Morgenstern, Jens Wiebe, Felix Marczinowski, Roland Wiesendanger

    Pages 217-243

11. Magnetization of Interacting Electrons in Low-Dimensional Systems

    • Marc A. Wilde, Dirk Grundler, Detlef Heitmann

    Pages 245-275

12. Spin Polarized Transport and Spin Relaxation in Quantum Wires

    • Paul Wenk, Masayuki Yamamoto, Jun-ichiro Ohe, Tomi Ohtsuki, Bernhard Kramer, Stefan Kettemann

    Pages 277-302

13. InAs Spin Filters Based on the Spin-Hall Effect

    • Jan Jacob, Toru Matsuyama, Guido Meier, Ulrich Merkt

    Pages 303-326

14. Spin Injection and Detection in Spin Valves with Integrated Tunnel Barriers

    • Jeannette Wulfhorst, Andreas Vogel, Nils Kuhlmann, Ulrich Merkt, Guido Meier

    Pages 327-351

15. Growth and Characterization of Ferromagnetic Alloys for Spin Injection

    • Jan M. Scholtyssek, Hauke Lehmann, Guido Meier, Ulrich Merkt

    Pages 353-372

16. Charge and Spin Noise in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

    • Alexander Chudnovskiy, Jacek Swiebodzinski, Alex Kamenev, Thomas Dunn, Daniela Pfannkuche

    Pages 373-394

17. Nanostructured Ferromagnetic Systems for the Fabrication of Short-Period Magnetic Superlattices

    • Sabine Pütter, Holger Stillrich, Andreas Meyer, Norbert Franz, Hans Peter Oepen

    Pages 395-415

18. How X-Ray Methods Probe Chemically Prepared Nanoparticles from the Atomic- to the Nano-Scale

    • Edlira Suljoti, Annette Pietzsch, Wilfried Wurth, Alexander Föhlisch

    Pages 417-427

19. Back Matter

    Pages 429-434

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Semiconductor nanostructures are ideal systems to tailor the physical properties via quantum effects, utilizing special growth techniques, self-assembling, wet chemical processes or lithographic tools in combination with tuneable external electric and magnetic fields. Such systems are called "Quantum Materials".The electronic, photonic, and phononic properties of these systems are governed by size quantization and discrete energy levels. The charging is controlled by the Coulomb blockade. The spin can be manipulated by the geometrical structure, external gates and by integrating hybrid ferromagnetic emitters.This book reviews sophisticated preparation methods for quantum materials based on III-V and II-VI semiconductors and a wide variety of experimental techniques for the investigation of these interesting systems. It highlights selected experiments and theoretical concepts and gives such a state-of-the-art overview about the wide field of physics and chemistry that can be studied in these systems.

• Hybrid systems
• Lithographic tools
• Nanogrowth techniques
• Quantum materials
• Semiconductor nanocrystals
• Semiconductor nanostructures
• chemistry
• cluster
• nanostructure
• semiconductor
• spectroscopy
• superlattices
• surface
• surfaces
• transport

• FB Physik, Inst. Angewandte Physik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

  Detlef Heitmann

Detlef Heitmann is a Full Professor at the Institute of Applied Physics of the University of Hamburg and Head of the Semiconductor Group. After research on Cerenkov radiation, surface plasmons and Integrated Optics he entered the field of low-dimensional semiconductor systems. His interest was devoted in particular to the fabrication of quantum structures and its investigation with far infrared, Raman and photoluminescence spectroscopy. In recent years his group also used the tools of the semiconductor technology to prepare ferromagnetic nanostructures and study the spin dynamics in these systems, and to fabricate and investigate optical metamaterials. From 1997 to 2009 he was Speaker of the DFG Collaborative Research Center SFB 508 "Quantum Materials".

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