Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1 Introduction: Structural properties of silicon-germanium (SiGe) nanostructures
  • Electronic band structures of SiGe alloys. Part 2 Formation of nanostructures: Understanding crystal growth mechanisms in SiGe nanostructures
  • Types of SiGe bulk crystal growth methods and their applications
  • SiGe crystal growth using molecular beam epitaxy
  • SiGe crystal growth using chemical vapour deposition
  • Strain engineering of SiGe virtual substrates
  • Formation of silicon-germanium-on-insulator (SGOI)substrates
  • Miscellaneous methods and materials for SiGe based heterostructures
  • Modelling the evolution of germanium islands on silicon(001) thin films
  • Strain engineering of SiGe micro- and nanostructures. Part 3 Material properties of SiGe nanostructures: Self-diffusion and dopant diffusion in germanium (Ge) and SiGe alloys
  • Dislocations and other strain-induced defects in SiGe nanostructures
  • Transport properties of SiGe nanostructures at low temperatures
  • Transport properties of SiGe nanostructures and applications in devices
  • Microcavities and quantum cascade laser structures based on SiGe nanostructures
  • Silicide and germanide technology for interconnections in ultra large scale integrated (ULSI) applications. Part 4 Devices using Si, Ge and SiGe alloys: SiGe heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) and bipolar complementary metal oxide semiconductor (BiCMOS) technologies
  • SiGe-based field effect transistors (FET) and complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technologies
  • High electron mobility germanium (Ge) metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs)
  • Silicon (Si) and germanium (Ge) in optical devices
  • Spintronics of nanostructured MnGe dilute magnetic semiconductor.