Festkörperprobleme 26: 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 (

Walter Schottky (1886–1976)....Pages 1-15 The discovery of the quantum hall effect....Pages 17-39 Light scattering in novel layered semiconductor structures....Pages 41-53 Excitons and the electronic polarization in semiconductors....Pages 55-66 On the present understanding of Schottky contacts....Pages 67-88 Point defects and diffusion mechanisms in crystalline semiconductors....Pages 89-112 Physics on fractal structures....Pages 113-132 Calculation of phase diagrams for models of metallic alloys....Pages 133-168 Bloch oscillations and the dissipative phase transition in Josephson junctions....Pages 169-181 Light induced magnetization in semiconductors....Pages 183-201 Semiconductor physics in ultra-pure germanium....Pages 203-229 Transport properties of semiconductor heterostructures....Pages 231-250 Band offsets in heterostructures....Pages 251-275 Optics with gradients of free carrier concentration....Pages 277-308 Instabilities in semiconductors: Domains, filaments, chaos....Pages 309-333 Physics of metal organic chemical vapour deposition....Pages 335-359 Power thyristors using IC-technology....Pages 361-373