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    Magneto-electrical transport through MBE-grown III-V semiconductor nanostructures: from zero- to one-dimensional type of transport
    (2009) Storace , Eleonora; von Klitzing, Klaus (Prof. Dr.)
    From the development of the first transistor in 1947, great interest has been directed towards the technological development of semiconducting devices and the investigation of their physical properties. A very vital field within this topic focuses on the electrical transport through low-dimensional structures, where the quantum confinement of charge carriers leads to the observation of a wide variety of phenomena that, in their turn, can give an interesting insight on the fundamental properties of the structures under examination. In the present thesis, we will start analyzing zero-dimensional systems, focusing on how electrons localized onto an island can take part in the transport through the whole system; by precisely tuning the tunnel coupling strength between this island and its surroundings, we will then show how it is possible to move from a zero- to a one-dimensional system. Afterwards, the inverse path will be studied: a one-dimensional system is electrically characterized, proving itself to split up due to disorder into several zero-dimensional structures.