Festkörperprobleme 26 [electronic resource] : Plenary Lectures of the Divisions “Semiconductor Physics” “Dynamics and Statistical Mechanics” “Low Temperature Physics” “Magnetism” “Metal Physics” “Thin Films” “Surface Physics” “Vacuum Technology” of the German Physical Society (DPG) Freudenstadt, April 7…11, 1986 / herausgegeben von P. Grosse.

Walter Schottky (1886–1976) -- The discovery of the quantum hall effect -- Light scattering in novel layered semiconductor structures -- Excitons and the electronic polarization in semiconductors -- On the present understanding of Schottky contacts -- Point defects and diffusion mechanisms in crystalline semiconductors -- Physics on fractal structures -- Calculation of phase diagrams for models of metallic alloys -- Bloch oscillations and the dissipative phase transition in Josephson junctions -- Light induced magnetization in semiconductors -- Semiconductor physics in ultra-pure germanium -- Transport properties of semiconductor heterostructures -- Band offsets in heterostructures -- Optics with gradients of free carrier concentration -- Instabilities in semiconductors: Domains, filaments, chaos -- Physics of metal organic chemical vapour deposition -- Power thyristors using IC-technology.