This book is a compilation of articles that span more than 30 years of research on developing comprehensive physical models that describe the physical properties of quantum wires.
Quantum wires are artificial structures characterized by nanoscale cross sections that contain charged particles moving along a single degree of freedom. With electronic motions constrained into standing modes along the two other spatial directions, they have been primarily investigated for their unidimensional dynamics of quantum-confined charge carriers, which eventually led to broad applications in large-scale nanoelectronics.
This book is a compilation of articles that span more than 30 years of research on developing comprehensive physical models that describe the physical properties of these unidimensional semiconductor structures. The articles address the effect of quantum confinement on lattice vibrations, carriers scattering rates, and charge transport and present practical examples of solutions to the Boltzmann equation by analytical techniques and by numerical simulation such as the Monte Carlo method. Topics on quantum transport and spin effects in unidimensional molecular structures such as carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons are also addressed in terms of non-equilibrium Greens function approaches and density-functional theory.
Part I: Semiconductor Quantum Wires
1. Size Effects on Polar Optical
Phonon Scattering of One-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in
Synthetic Semiconductors
2. Self-Consistent Polaron Scattering Rates in
Quasi-One-Dimensional Structures3. Plasmon Dispersion Relation of a
Quasi-One-Dimensional Electron Gas
4. Size Effects in Multisubband Quantum
Wire Structures
5. Impurity Scattering with Semiclassical Screening in
Multiband Quasi-One-Dimensional Systems
6. Resonant Intersubband Optic Phonon
Scattering in Quasi-One-Dimensional Structures
7. Intersubband Population
Inversion in Quantum Wire Structures
8. Intersubband Resonant Effects of
Dissipative Transport in Quantum Wires
9. Intersubband Optic Phonon
Resonances in Electrostatically Confined Quantum Wires
10. Transient
Simulation of Electron Emission from Quantum-Wire Structures
11. Carrier
Capture in Cylindrical Quantum Wires
12. Electron-Phonon Interaction and
Velocity Oscillations in Quantum Wire Structures
13. Transient and
Steady-State Analysis of Electron Transport in One-Dimensional Coupled
Quantum-Box Structures
14. Acoustic-Phonon Limited Mobility in Periodically
Modulated Quantum Wires
15. Antiresonant Hopping Conductance and Negative
Magnetoresistance in Quantum-Box Superlattices
16. Oscillatory Level
Broadening in Superlattice Magnetotransport
17. Breakdown of the Linear
Approximation to the Boltzmann Transport Equation in Quasi-One-Dimensional
Semiconductors
18. Optic-Phonon-Limited Transport and Anomalous Carrier
Cooling in Quantum-Wire Structures
19. lntersubband Stimulated Emission and
Optical Gain by Phonon Pumping in Quantum Wires
20. Superlinear Electron
Transport and Noise in Quantum Wires
21. Importance of Confined Longitudinal
Optical Phonons in Intersubband and Backward Scattering in Rectangular
AlGaAs/GaAs Quantum Wires
22. Confined and Interface Phonon Scattering in
Finite Barrier GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Wires
23. Hole Scattering by Confined
Optical Phonons in Silicon Nanowires Part II: Carbon Nanotubes and
Nanoribbons
24. Nonlinear Transport and Heat Dissipation in Metallic Carbon
Nanotubes
25. Joule Heating Induced Negative Differential Resistance in
Freestanding Metallic Carbon Nanotubes
26. Restricted WiedemannFranz Law and
Vanishing Thermoelectric Power in One-Dimensional Conductors
27. High-Field
Electrothermal Transport in Metallic Carbon Nanotubes
28. Atomic Vacancy
Defects in the Electronic Properties of Semi-metallic Carbon Nanotubes
29.
Chirality Effects in Atomic VacancyLimited Transport in Metallic Carbon
Nanotubes
30. Vacancy ClusterLimited Electronic Transport in Metallic Carbon
Nanotubes
31. Vacancy-Induced Intramolecular Junctions and Quantum Transport
in Metallic Carbon Nanotubes
32. On the Sensing Mechanism in Carbon Nanotube
Chemiresistors
33. Defect Symmetry Influence on Electronic Transport of
Zigzag Nanoribbons
34. Controllable Tuning of the Electronic Transport in
Pre-designed Graphene Nanoribbon
35. Quantum Conduction through Double-Bend
Electron Waveguide Structures
36. Quantum Ballistic Transport through a
Double-Bend Waveguide Structure: Effects of Disorder
37. Quantum Transport
through One-Dimensional Double-Quantum-Well Systems
38. Cascaded Spintronic
Logic with Low-Dimensional Carbon
Jean-Pierre Leburton is a Gregory Stillman Professor of electrical and computer engineering and a professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Illinois, USA. He is also a professor at the F. Seitz Material Research Laboratory, Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, and Coordinator Science Laboratory, UIUC. He earned his license in physics and PhD from the University of Liege, Belgium. He has authored or coauthored around 350 research papers in journals of international repute and nearly 50 book chapters, books, and media articles. His research interests include semiconductor devices, nonlinear transport in semiconductors, electronic and optical properties of quantum well heterostructures and superlattices, physical properties of quantum wires and quantum dots, spin effects in quantum dots, simulation of nanostructures, quantum computation and quantum information processing, and DNA electronic recognition.
