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

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,...

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Other Authors: Burstein, Elias (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1969, 1969
Edition:1st ed. 1969
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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