Single-electron tunneling (SET) and related phenomena have recently come to be considered as "hot topics". This also became apparent when we organized the 4th International Conference on Superconducting and Quantum Effect Devices and Their Applications, SQUID'91, which was held June 18-21, 1991, in Berlin, Germany. Impressed by the number of contributions dedicated to the new physics of ultrasmall devices, we deemed it appropriate to devote this volume of the Springer Series in Electronics and Photonics to these specialized proceedings. The other contributions presented at SQUID'91, which are more conventional in character but nevertheless contain excitingly innovative results, are published separately as Volume 64 of the series Springer Proceedings in Physics. At first glance it seems strange that a conference abbreviated SQUID'91 should attract so many papers on non-superconducting devices, and in fact the first SQUID'XX conferences dealt exclusively with the physics and technology of Josephson junctions, SQUIDs and other superconducting devices and their ap plications. However, many concepts developed for superconducting devices, like tunneling, flux quantization, and flux-charge conjugation, appeared to be suitable for ultrasmall non-superconducting structures as well, and many researchers in the field of superconducting devices extended their activities accordingly. Thus the extension of the conference programme evolved quite informally. Meanwhile, the meetings established themselves as well-known conference series tradition ally appreciated by the SQUID community for its balanced mixture of physics and technology, review and preview. SQUID'XX became a kind of a trademark.
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10.1007/978-3-642-77274-0
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I Single-Electron Tunneling.- Single-Electronics - Recent Developments.- Effect of the Electromagnetic Environment on Single Charge Tunneling.- Manipulating Electrons One by One.- Single-Electron Transistors as Ultrasensitive Electrometers.- SET Circuits for Digital Applications.- Single-Electron and Cooper Pair Tunneling in Systems of Small Junctions Coupled to an Electromagnetic Environment.- Quantum Decay of the Coulomb Blockade State in an Array of Two Ultrasmall Tunnel Junctions with General Channels of Tunneling.- Single-Electron Tunneling Effects at the Surfaces of Oxide Superconductor Films.- II Bloch Oscillations.- Observation of Bloch Oscillations in Ultrasmall Josephson Tunnel Junctions.- Resonant Interaction of External Irradiation with the Incoherent Phase Tunneling in Ultrasmall Josephson Junctions.- III Arrays.- New Results on SET-Oscillations in One-Dimensional Arrays of Tunnel Junctions.- Charges and Vortices in Josephson Junction Arrays.- Ballistic Motion of Vortices in Josephson Junction Arrays.- Topological Excitations in Arrays of Mesoscopic Systems.- Comparison of the Transition to the Insulating State in Two-Dimensional and One-Dimensional Arrays of Ultrasmall Tunnel Junctions.- Periodic Oscillations of the Resistive Transition in Superconducting Wire Networks - Influence of Pinning and Fluctuations.- IV One- and Two-Dimensional Electron Gas Devices.- Quantum Phenomena in Microstructured Semiconductors.- Coulomb-Blockade Oscillations in Quantum Wires and Dots.- Conductance Resonances in Transport Through a Single Quantum Dot.- Resonant Josephson Current Through a Quantum Dot.- The Role of Electron Wave Modes in Optical Devices.- V Mesoscopic Devices/ Quantum Effects.- Conductance Fluctuations and Persistent Currents in Mesoscopic Systems.- Selection of One of the Different Zero-Voltage States of a Hysteretic DC SQUID.- Anomalous Behaviour of RF-SQUIDs with S-c-S Contacts of Small Area.- Variable ? RF SQUID.- Theory of Coherent Electron Transport in Impure Quantum Wires.- Theory of Quantum Conduction of Supercurrent Through Narrow Channels.- Phase Transition in Small Metallic Junctions with Quasiparticle Dissipation.- Quantum Charge Based Saturation Effect on Stationary Tunneling Between Superconductors at Finite Temperature.- Exact Solution of the Master Equation for Small Josephson Junctions.- The Flux Mode and Charge Mode Regimes in Superconducting Weak Link Circuits.- Introducing Dissipation in the Schrödinger Picture.- Tunnel Current Modifications due to Finite Tunneling Times.- Dual Macroscopic Quantum Effects in Tunnel-Type and Bridge-Type Junctions.- Quantum Fluctuation and Disappearance of the Josephson Effect in Highly Resistive Microbridges.- Printing-In Effect in NbN Granular Thin Films Caused by Electric Field.- VI Semi-/Superconducting Junctions.- Semiconductor-Coupled Superconducting Junctions - SNS in the Mesoscopic Regime.- Transport in Nb-InGaAs Contacts.- Sub-Energygap Structures in a Nb/InAs/Nb Junction.- Nino an eSquupileibrcriounmdu Tctroarn-sSpeomrti conductor Heterostructure.- Electron Transport in CoSi2-Si-CoSi2Structures.- Index of Contributors.
