Electronic Quantum Transport in Mesoscopic Semiconductor Structures

Part I: Introduction to Electron Transport
- Electrical conductance: historical account from Ohm to the semiclassical Drude-Boltzmann theory, Towards the microscopic understanding of conductance on a quantum mechanical basis

Part II: Conductance in Strongly Interacting and Disordered Two-Dimensional Systems
- The concept of metals and insulators
- Scaling theory of localization
- Electron-electron intereactions within the Fermi-liquid concept
- Beyond Fermi-liquid theory
- Summary of disorder and interaction effects
- Experiments on strongly interacting two-dimensional systems and the metal-insulator transition
- Metallic behavior in p-SiGe quantum wells

Part III: Electron Transport through quantum dots and quantum rings
- Introduction to electron transport through quantum dots
- Energy spectra through quantum rings
- Spin filling in quantum dots

Part IV: Local spectroscopy of semiconductor nanostructures
- Instrumentation: Scanning force microscopies for cryogenic temperatures and magnetic fields
- Local investigation of a two-dimensional electron gas with an SFM at cryogenic temperatures
- Local investigation of edge channels
- Scanning gate measurements on a quantum wire
- Appendices: Formal