Transport in nanostructures

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ferry David K.
Group Author: Goodnick Stephen M.; (Stephen Marshall), 1955-; Bird Jonathan P.
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, UK New York
Publication Dates: 2009.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: 2nd ed.
Subjects:
Carrier Form: x, 659 p.: ill., maps ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 0521877482 (hbk.)
9780521877480 (hbk.)
Index Number: O413
CLC: O413
TN201
Call Number: TN201/F399/2nd.ed.
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. 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. multi-channel case -- 3.5. Transport in quantum waveguide structures.