ABSTRACT
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 with 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, carrier scattering rates, and charge transport as well as present practical examples of solutions to the Boltzmann equation by analytical techniques and by numerical simulations such as the Monte Carlo method. The book also presents topics on quantum transport and spin effects in unidimensional molecular structures such as carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons in terms of non-equilibrium Green’s function approaches and density functional theory.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|315 pages
Semiconductor Quantum Wires
chapter Chapter 2|9 pages
Self-Consistent Polaron Scattering Rates in Quasi-One-Dimensional Structures
chapter Chapter 5|18 pages
Impurity Scattering with Semiclassical Screening in Multiband Quasi-One-Dimensional Systems
chapter Chapter 6|11 pages
Resonant Intersubband Optic Phonon Scattering in Quasi-One-Dimensional Structures
chapter Chapter 9|9 pages
Intersubband Optic Phonon Resonances in Electrostatically Confined Quantum Wires
chapter Chapter 12|8 pages
Electron-Phonon Interaction and Velocity Oscillations in Quantum Wire Structures
chapter Chapter 13|19 pages
Transient and Steady-State Analysis of Electron Transport in One-Dimensional Coupled Quantum-Box Structures
chapter Chapter 15|13 pages
Antiresonant Hopping Conductance and Negative Magnetoresistance in Quantum-Box Superlattices
chapter Chapter 18|21 pages
Optic-Phonon-Limited Transport and Anomalous Carrier Cooling in Quantum-Wire Structures
chapter Chapter 19|10 pages
Intersubband Stimulated Emission and Optical Gain by “Phonon Pumping” in Quantum Wires
chapter Chapter 22|20 pages
Confined and Interface Phonon Scattering in Finite Barrier GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Wires
part II|222 pages
Carbon Nanotubes and Nanoribbons