Edited by
Carlo Lamberti, Department of Inorganic, Physical & Materials Chemistry, University of Torino, Italy
Carlo Lamberti, Department of Inorganic, Physical & Materials Chemistry, University of Torino, Italy
Description
Characterization of Semiconductor Heterostructures and Nanostructures” is structured so that each chapter is devoted to a specific
characterization technique used in the understanding of the properties (structural, physical, chemical, electrical etc..) of semiconductor
quantum wells and superlattices. An additional chapter is devoted to ab initio modeling.
The book has two basic aims.
The first is educational, providing the basic concepts of each of the selected techniques with an approach understandable by advanced
students in Physics, Chemistry, Material Science, Engineering, Nanotechnology. The second aim is to provide a selected set of examples
from the recent literature of the TOP results obtained with the specific technique in understanding the properties of semiconductor heterostructures
and nanostructures. Each chapter has this double structure: the first part devoted to explain the basic concepts, and the second
to the discussion of the most peculiar and innovative examples.
The topic of quantum wells, wires and dots should be seen
as a pretext of applying top level characterization techniques in understanding the structural, electronic etc properties of matter at
the nanometer (and even sub-nanometer) scale. In this respect it is an essential reference in the much broader, and extremely
hot, field of Nanotechnology.
Audience:
This book is suitable for researchers and professors and Master and PhD students in physics, chemistry, materials science and engineering fields.
