Serge Luryi's Selected Research Topics
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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).
Invention of novel crystal growth techniques that
permit epitaxial growth of lattice-mismatched materials,
notably heteroepitaxy on Si substrates (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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