Table of Contents

PART 1. INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
1. Hot electrons and related phenomena: a brief history - B K Ridley
2. Milestones of hot electron research in semiconductors - Karl Hess
3. Growth and fabrication of semiconductor devices for hot electron research - J J Harris and C T Foxon
4. Optical spectroscopy as a tool in hot electron studies - Jagdeep Shah
PART 2. ELECTRON PHONON INTERACTIONS
5. Energy and momentum relaxation of hot electrons by acoustic phonon emission - A J Kent
6. Scattering of electrons by optical modes in bulk semiconductors and quantum wells - M Babiker and N Zakhleniuk
7. Phonon emission and absorption by hot electrons in (-doped multiple layers in GaAs - M Asche
8. Ultrafast spectroscopy of low dimensional structures - John F Ryan
9. Impact phenomena and nonlinear spatio-temporal dynamics of hot electrons in semiconductors - Eckhard Schöll
10. Non-equilibrium phonons and instabilities in quantum wells - N Balkan
PART 3. QUANTUM WELLS AND DOTS
11. Carrier relaxation in 1-D and 0-D - C M Sotomayor Torres
12. Energy and momentum relaxation of hot electrons in long quantum wires - Roberto Cingolani
13. Electron phonon interactions in electron transfer devices and in quasi 1-D structures - Nabuhiko Sawaki
PART 4. HOT ELECTRON TUNNELLING
14. Aspects of tunnelling phenomena in non-equilibrium transport - J R Barker
15. Plasmon excitation effects in resonant tunnelling - L Eaves
16. Hot electrons and space charge waves in superlattices - H T Grahn
PART 5. HOT ELECTRON DEVICES
17. Hot electrons in semiconductor devices - Serge Luryi
18. Mote Carlo simulation of hot electrons in semiconductor devices - C Jacoboni, A Abramo and R Brunetti
19. Hot electron effects in quantum well lasers and the tunnelling injection laser - P K Bhattacharaya
20. Electroluminescence by impact ionization of impurities in semiconductors - Gaetano Scamarcio and Frederico Capasso
21. Hot electrons in n-i-p-i based devices - G H Döhler, J Heber, M Peter, S Eckl, S Malzer, A Förster and H Lüth

About the Author

Dr Naci Balkan, University of Essex, Department of Physics, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ, UK Tel.: +44 1206 872878, Fax: +44 1206 873598, Email: balkan@essex.ac.uk