Advances in Solid State Physics, Vol. 40 (Advances in Solid State Physics)

This volume contains most of the invited talks of the 2000 meeting of the Solid State Physics Section of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft held in Regensburg from March 22 to 26. Among others the results of current research in the fields of semiconductor physics, low temperature physics and thin layer physics are presented. The topics covered reflect the present activities in this lively domain of modern physics and are thus supposed to flashlight the state of the art in condensed matter physics in Germany in the year 2000. The Quantum Hall Effect: after 20 years still a challenge for theory and experiment....Pages 3-19 Measuring the fractional charge and its evolution....Pages 21-34 Bloch electrons in a magnetic field: Hofstadter's butterfly....Pages 35-50 Scaling in the Integer Quantum Hall Effect: interactions and low magnetic fields....Pages 51-63 Anisotropic state of two-dimensional electron gas in high Landau levels....Pages 65-76 Composite fermions in quantum hall systems near ν=1/2....Pages 77-93 Quantum wires as Luttinger liquids: experiment....Pages 97-116 Quantum wires as Luttinger liquids: theory....Pages 117-132 Flow equations for Hamiltonians....Pages 133-142 Disorder, electron-electron interactions and the metal-insulator transition in heavily doped Si:P....Pages 143-167 The numerical renormalization group method for correlated electrons....Pages 169-182 Characerization and manipulation of carbon nanotubes by scanning force and scanning tunnelling microscopy....Pages 185-192 Analysis of single wall carbon nanotubes by Raman scattering....Pages 193-204 Electronic structure of carbon nanotubes....Pages 205-218 Luttinger liquid behavior in carbon nanotubes....Pages 219-231 Lattice dynamical effects on the peierls transition in one-dimensional metals and spin chains....Pages 235-250 Electronic structure and ordered phases in transition metal oxides: application of the dynamical mean-field theory....Pages 251-265 Energy and phase relaxation in non-equilibrium diffusive nano-wires with two-level systems....Pages 267-277 Beyond the tunneling model—Elastic properties of vitreous silica at low temperatures....Pages 279-291 Rashba spin-splitting and ferromagnetic electrodes on InAs....Pages 295-308 Electrical spin-injection into semiconductors-from cobalt contacts to semiconductor spin aligners....Pages 309-320 Nb/InAs(2DEG)/Nb hybrid quantum structures....Pages 321-332 The excitation spectrum of mesoscopic proximity structures....Pages 333-341 Molecular-dynamics simulations of martensitic transformations....Pages 345-360 Structural and magnetic phase transitions in Ni−Mn−Ga shape-memory alloys....Pages 361-374 Martensitic transformations studied on nano-and microscopic length scales....Pages 375-387 Nanocrystallization of Al-rich metallic glasses....Pages 391-405 Structuring thin films via ion beams....Pages 407-421 Periodic application of the sequence ‘growth and ion-induced stress relaxation’: A way to prepare stable, thick films of cubic boron nitride....Pages 423-438 Ion assisted deposition of thin layers....Pages 439-452 Interreaction of metals—The dominant influence of microstructure....Pages 453-468 Computer simulations of the dynamics in glasses and melts....Pages 469-479 Fast relaxation in viscous liquids....Pages 481-495 Confined optical modes in photonic molecules and crystals....Pages 499-514 Microwave studies of chaotic billiards and disordered systems....Pages 515-528 Tunable photonic crystals....Pages 529-543 Photonic crystals from macroporous silicon....Pages 545-559 Optical spectroscopy on single quantum dots....Pages 561-576 Index-guided long-wavelength InGaAIAs/InP vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers....Pages 577-586 Quantum dots for GaAs-based surface emitting lasers at 1300 nm....Pages 589-597 (GaIn) (NAs)/GaAs vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with high performance....Pages 599-610 High performance selectively oxidized VCSELs and arrays for parallel high-speed optical interconnects....Pages 611-625 GaSb/AlGaSb VCSEL structures and microcavities in the 1.5 μm wavelength range....Pages 627-639 Group III-Nitride heterostructures: From materials research to devices....Pages 641-656 Flat panel displays: introduction and LCDs—from physics to technology....Pages 657-668 Concerning the pairing mechanism in high- T c Superconductors—a status report....Pages 671-683 High trapped fields in bulk YBCO superconductors....Pages 685-696 Fermi surface mapping of Bi-2212 using high resolution angle-scanned photoemission....Pages 697-711 Superconducting rare earth transition metal borocarbides....Pages 713-728 Magnetism and superconductivity in granular platinum at low temperatures....Pages 729-740 Bi 2223 tape processing....Pages 741-751 AC properties of high-temperature superconductors....Pages 753-768 HTS Josephson junctions as electromagnetic sensors for low and high frequencies....Pages 769-778 Charge carrier dynamics—a key factor for fast organic photorefractive materials....Pages 781-793 Organic semiconductors: fundamentals and applications....Pages 795-808 The hard physics of soft matter....Pages 809-817 Statistical physics of learning: Phase transitions in multilayered neural networks....Pages 819-826