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Ballistic electrons : microscopy, spectroscopy, devices and luminescence

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Appelbaum, Ian, 1977-
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics.
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Venkatesh Narayanamurti and John D. Joannopoulos.
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This thesis describes research to theoretically model and experimentally measure electronic systems which employ ballistic electron emission. First, a Monte-Carlo framework for simulating electron injection from a tunnel junction emitter into a semiconductor collector is presented in detail and a few applications of this theory are described. Second, a method of treating ballistic electron transport through nano-scale heterostructures by considering realistic, atomic-scale periodic potentials is examined. Third, experimental results toward development of a novel scanning-probe microscopy for the local study of buried luminescent heterostructure layers is presented. Finally, a number of future research directions suggested by these results are described.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2003.
 
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 139-147).
 
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2003
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29612
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Physics.

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