Point-Contact Spectroscopy

I. K. Yanson

ISBN 10: 1441919384 / ISBN 13: 9781441919380

Published by Springer New York, Springer, 2011

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The main goal of solid-state physics is investigation of the properties of the matter including the mechanical, electrical, optical, magnetic, and so on with the aim of developing new materials with defined characteristics. Nowadays, the synthesis of superconductors with high critical temperature it consists of or fabrication of new heterostructures on the base of semiconductors, in cre ation of layered, amorphous, organic, or nanofabricated structures and many others. To do all of these, the various methods of investigation are developed during the past. Because it is impossible to find an universal method to in vestigate a variety of materials, which are either conducting or insulating, crystalline or amorphous, thin-layered or bulk, magnetic or segnetoelectric, and so on, various kind of spectroscopies, like optical, neutron, electron, tun nel and so on, are widely used in solid-state physics. Recently, a new type of spectroscopy, namely, the Point-Contact Spectroscopy (PCS), wasdesigned for study of the conduction-electron interaction mechanism with a whole class of elementary excitations in the solids. In PCS, a small constriction, about a few nanometers large, between two conductors plays a role of a spectrome ter. Namely, because of inelastic scattering of accelerated electrons, the I - V characteristic of such a tiny metallic contact is nonlinear versus an applied voltage and its second derivative surprisingly turns out to be proportional to the electron-quasiparticle-interaction spectrum.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Point-Contact Spectroscopy
• Publisher: Springer New York, Springer
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441919384
• ISBN 13: 9781441919380
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 155H x 18D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 482 grams

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Synopsis

Point-contact spectroscopy has been a powerful tool for investigating elementarty excitations in solids. This text provides fundamentals and techniques for point-contact spectroscopy, as well as an outlook for new and future research trends.

About the Author

Both authors are affiliated with the B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperatire Physics and Engineering, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.