Quantum Transport.

Abstract

During the period March 15, 1991 to August 14, 1994, research carried out by the Nanostructures Group in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Notre Dame was concerned with a variety of quantum transport in mesoscopic structures. This research was funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Grant No. AFOSR-91-0211. The major issues examined included quantum transport in high magnetic fields and modulated channels, Coulomb coupled quantum dot systems, transmission resonances and zeroes in resonant transport, self-consistent Hartree calculations of transport, lateral quantum wires an pn-junction formation, quantum magnetotransport in disordered systems, magnetoelectric states in quantum wires, anomalous magnetoresistance, electromigration, collision retardation and phonon effects in hot-electron transport, spin-polarized single electronics, single-particle lifetimes in quasi-1D structures, quantum transport experiments in metals, the mesoscopic photovoltaic effect, and new techniques for fabricating quantum structures in semiconductors.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 15, 1994
Accession Number
ADA294977

Entities

People

  • Craig S. Lent
  • Gary H. Bernstein
  • Supriyo Bandyopadhyay
  • Wolfgang Porod

Organizations

  • University of Notre Dame

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Compound Semiconductors
  • Crystal Lattice Vibrations
  • Electric Fields
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Electronics
  • Electronics Laboratories
  • Electrons
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Materials
  • Nanotechnology
  • P-N Junctions
  • Power Electronics
  • Quantum Dots
  • Quantum Wires
  • Semiconductors

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Electronics Engineering
  • Quantum spin resonance or Electron Paramagnetic Resonance spectroscopy.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene
  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Science - Quantum Dots