Low-Dimensional Electronic Systems: New Concepts [Paperback]

Owing to new physical, technological, and device concepts oflow-dimensionalelectronic systems, the physics andfabrication of quasi-zero, one- and two-dimensional systemsare rapidly growing fields. The contributions presented inthis volume cover results of nanostructure fabricationincluding recently developed techniques, for example,tunneling probe techniques and molecular beam epitaxy,quantum transport including the integer and fractionalquantum Hall effect, optical and transport studies of thetwo-dimensional Wigner solid, phonon studies oflow-dimensional systems, and Si/SiGe heterostructures andsuperlattices. To the readers new in the field this volumegives a comprehensive introduction and for the experts it isan update of their knowledge and a great help for decisionsabout future research activities.I Low-Dimensional Structures  General Aspects.- Perspectives of Low-Dimensional Semiconductor Heterostructures.- Electronic Energy Levels in Nanostructures.- Phonon Studies of Low-Dimensional Structures.- Electron Transport in Antidot Superlattices.- Numerical Approaches to Transport in Mesoscopic Systems.- Ballistic Electron Optics.- Three Universal Mesoscopic Josephson Effects.- II SXM Analytical Techniques and Nano-Fabrication.- Surface Modification with the SXMs.- Contributions of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy for Probing and Manipulating Electronic Properties in Low Dimensions.- Atomic-Scale View of Epitaxial Layers with Cross-Sectional STM.- Nanostructure Fabrication.- Direct Fabrication of III-V Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Quantum Wires by Molecular Beam Epitaxy.- Atomically Precise Lower-Dimensional Structures.- III Landau Level Phenomena and Integer Quantum Hall Effect.- Magneto-Tunneling Between 2-Dimensional Systems.- Compressibility of the Interacting Two-Dimensional Electron Gas.- Finite-Size Scaling in the Dissipative Transport Regime Between Quantum Hall Plateaus.- IV Fractló(