Transport in nanostructures /
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| Author / Creator: | Ferry, David K. |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. |
| Description: | x, 659 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7842223 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Nanostructures: the impact
- 1.2. Mesoscopic observables in nanostructures
- 1.3. Space and time scales
- 1.4. Nanostructures and nanodevices
- 1.5. An introduction to the subsequent chapters
- 1.6. What is omitted
- 2. Quantum confined systems
- 2.1. Nanostructure materials
- 2.2. Quantization in heterojunction systems
- 2.3. Lateral confinement: quantum wires and quantum dots
- 2.4. Electronic states in quantum wires and dots
- 2.5. Magnetic field effects in quantum confined systems
- 2.6. Screening and collective excitations in low-dimensional systems
- 2.7. Homogeneous transport in low-dimensional systems
- 3. Transmission in nanostructures
- 3.1. Tunneling in planar barrier structures
- 3.2. Current in resonant tunneling diodes
- 3.3. Landauer formula
- 3.4. The multi-channel case
- 3.5. Transport in quantum waveguide structures
- 4. The quantum Hall effects
- 4.1. The integer quantum Hall effect in two-dimensional electron systems
- 4.2. Edge-state propagation in nanostructures
- 4.3. The fractional quantum Hall effect
- 4.4. The many-body picture
- 5. Ballistic transport in quantum wires
- 5.1. Conductance quantization in quantum point contacts
- 5.2. Non-integer conductance quantization in quantum point contacts
- 5.3. Some ballistic device concepts
- 6. Quantum dots
- 6.1. Fundamentals of single-electron tunneling
- 6.2. Single-electron tunneling in semiconductor quantum dots
- 6.3. Coupled quantum dots as artificial molecules
- 6.4. Quantum interference due to spatial wave function coherence in quantum dots
- 7. Weakly disordered systems
- 7.1. Disordered semiconductors
- 7.2. Conductivity
- 7.3. Weak localization
- 7.4. Universal conductance fluctuations
- 7.5. Green's functions in disordered materials
- 8. Temperature decay of fluctuations
- 8.1. Temperature decay of coherence
- 8.2. The role of temperature on the fluctuations
- 8.3. Electron-electron interaction effects
- 8.4. Conductivity
- 9. Nonequilibrium transport and nanodevices
- 9.1. Nonequilibrium transport in mesoscopic structures
- 9.2. Semiconductor nanodevices in the real world
- 9.3. Quantum simulations via the scattering matrix
- 9.4. Real-time Green's functions
- Index
