ID - 131772946 TI - Handbook of self assembled semiconductor nanostructures for novel devices in photonics and electronics PY - 2008 SN - 9780080560472 0080560474 9780080463254 0080463258 1281795291 9786611795290 PB - Oxford : Elsevier, DB - UniCat KW - Mechanical properties of solids KW - Materials sciences KW - Nanostructured materials. KW - Nanotechnology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131772946 AB - In 1969, Leo Esaki (1973 Nobel Laureate) and Ray Tsu from IBM, USA, proposed research on "man-made crystals? using a semiconductor superlattice (a semiconductor structure comprising several alternating ultra-thin layers of semiconductor materials with different properties). This invention was perhaps the first proposal to advocate the engineering of a new semiconductor material, and triggered a wide spectrum of experimental and theoretical investigations. However, the study of what are now called low dimensional structures (LDS) began in the late 1970's when sufficiently thin epitaxial layers ER -