Serge Luryi's Selected Research Topics
Theory of anisotropic
intermolecular interactions
and lattice dynamics in solid hydrogen (1977-79).
Space-charge-limited
current and barrier injection in
semiconductor structures (1981-82) and (1987-89).
Theory of the integer quantum
Hall effect (1981-83).
Anomalous
photomagnetoresistance
in modulation-doped heterostructures (1984).
Studies of MOS transistor
structures with polysilicon gates (1982-93).
Invention and experimental
demonstration
of opto-electronic heterostructure devices
based on the real-space transfer of hot electrons (1983-96).
Invention and
experimental demonstration of
novel infrared photodetectors for fiber-optical communications;
Si heteroepitaxy (1984-86).
Studies of resonant
tunneling in heterostructures
and reduced-dimensionality systems; electronic transmission
across an interface of different crystals (1985-91).
Invention and
experimental realization of the induced-base and
quantum-capacitance transistors (1985-88).
Prediction of the resonant
photon drag effect in intersubband absorption
by a two-dimensional electron gas (1987-88).
Kinetic studies of
non-equilibrium
electronic ensembles in semiconductors (1990-92).
Internal
photo-polarization effect in asymmetric superlattices (1991).
Boltzmann-equation
studies of minority-carrier transport
in bipolar transistors; theory of abrupt-junction HBT;
invention of the coherent transistor (1992-93).
Invention of the method of
dual laser modulation (1992-95).
Theory of the intermodulation
distortion in analog communication lasers (1993-95).
Active packaging
technology (1994-96).
Contributions to theoretical
understanding of quantum cascade lasers (1994-96).
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