Tunneling Phenomena in Solids: Lectures Presented at the 1967/NATO Advanced Study Institute at Risö, Denmark

ISBN-13: 9781468417548 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 580 str.

Elias Burstein

Opis

The aim of this volume is to provide advanced predoctoral students and young postdoctoral physicists with an opportunity to study the concepts of tunneling phenomena in solids and the theoretical and experimental techniques for their investigation. The contributions are primarily tutorial in nature, covering theoretical and experimental aspects of electron tunnel ing in semiconductors, metals, and superconductors, and atomic tunneling in solids. The work is based upon the lectures delivered at the Advanced Study Institute on "Tunneling Phenomena in Solids," held at the Danish A. E. C. Research Establishment, Riso, Denmark, June 19-30, 1967. Sponsored by the Danish Atomic Energy Commission, the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA), and the Science Affairs Division of NATO, with the cooperation of the University of Copenhagen, the Technical University of Denmark, Chalmers Institute of Technology, and the University of Penn sylvania, the lectures were presented by a distinguished panel of scientists who have made major contributions in the field. The relatively large number of lecturers was, in part, made possible by the close coordination of the Advanced Study Institute with the Second International Conference on Electron Tunneling in Solids, which was held at Riso on June 29, 30 and July 1, 1967, under the sponsorship of the U. S. Army Research Office Durham. We are indebted to I. Giaever, E. O. Kane, J. Rowell, and J. R. Schrieffer for advice and assistance in planning the lecture program of the Institute."

Spis treści

1 Basic Concepts of Tunneling.- 2 WKB Methods.- 3 Metal-Insulator-Metal Tunneling.- 4 Theory of Metal-Barrier-Metal Tunneling.- 5 Tunneling.- 6 Interband Tunneling.- 7 Interband Tunneling—Theory.- 8 Tunneling in Schottky Barrier Rectifiers.- 9 Some Properties of Exponentially Damped Wave Functions.- 10 Image Force in Metal-Oxide-Metal Tunnel Junctions.- 11 Phonon-Assisted Semiconductor Tunneling.- 12 Effect of Stress on Interband Tunneling in Semiconductors.- 13 Phonon-Assisted Tunneling in Semiconductors.- 14 Excess Currents in Semiconductor Tunneling.- 15 Phonon-Assisted Tunneling (Franz-Keldysh Effect).- 16 Magnetotunneling Effects in Semiconductors.- 17 Molecular Excitations in Barriers. I.- 18 Molecular Excitations in Barriers. II.- 19 Tunneling Between Superconductors.- 20 Tunneling Density of States—Experiment.- 21 Single-Particle Tunneling in Superconductors.- 22 Many-Body Theory of Tunneling: Polarons in Schottky Junctions.- 23 Geometrical Resonances in the Tunneling Characteristics of Thick Superconducting Films.- 24 Multiparticle Tunneling.- 25 Photon-Assisted Single-Particle Tunneling Between Superconductors.- 26 Phonon Generation and Detection Single-Particle Tunneling in Superconductors.- 27 Tunneling Anomalies.- 28 A Unified Theory of Zero-Bias Anomalies and Energy-Loss Mechanisms in the Barrier.- 29 Gapless Superconducting Tunneling—Theory.- 30 Gapless Superconductor Tunneling—Experiment.- 31 DC Josephson Effects.- 32 The Theory of Josephson Tunneling.- 33 AC Josephson Tunneling—Experiment.- 34 Weakly Coupled Superconductors.- 35 Atomic Tunneling in Solids.- 36 The Detection of Atomic Tunneling in Solids.