Preface |
Acknowledgements |
Introduction / 1: |
Nanostructures: the impact / 1.1: |
Mesoscopic observables in nanostructures / 1.2: |
Space and time scales / 1.3: |
Nanostructures and nanodevices / 1.4: |
An introduction to the subsequent chapters / 1.5: |
What is omitted / 1.6: |
Quantum confined systems / 2: |
Nanostructure materials / 2.1: |
Quantization in heterojunction systems / 2.2: |
Lateral confinement: quantum wires and quantum dots / 2.3: |
Electronic states in quantum wires and dots / 2.4: |
Magnetic field effects in quantum confined systems / 2.5: |
Screening and collective excitations in low-dimensional systems / 2.6: |
Homogeneous transport in low-dimensional systems / 2.7: |
Transmission in nanostructures / 3: |
Tunneling in planar barrier structures / 3.1: |
Current in resonant tunneling diodes / 3.2: |
Landauer formula / 3.3: |
The multi-channel case / 3.4: |
Transport in quantum waveguide structures / 3.5: |
The quantum Hall effects / 4: |
The integer quantum Hall effect in two-dimensional electron systems / 4.1: |
Edge-state propagation in nanostructures / 4.2: |
The fractional quantum Hall effect / 4.3: |
The many-body picture / 4.4: |
Ballistic transport in quantum wires / 5: |
Conductance quantization in quantum point contacts / 5.1: |
Non-integer conductance quantization in quantum point contacts / 5.2: |
Some ballistic device concepts / 5.3: |
Quantum dots / 6: |
Fundamentals of single-electron tunneling / 6.1: |
Single-electron tunneling in semiconductor quantum dots / 6.2: |
Coupled quantum dots as artificial molecules / 6.3: |
Quantum interference due to spatial wave function coherence in quantum dots / 6.4: |
Weakly disordered systems / 7: |
Disordered semiconductors / 7.1: |
Conductivity / 7.2: |
Weak localization / 7.3: |
Universal conductance fluctuations / 7.4: |
Green's functions in disordered materials / 7.5: |
Temperature decay of fluctuations / 8: |
Temperature decay of coherence / 8.1: |
The role of temperature on the fluctuations / 8.2: |
Electron-electron interaction effects / 8.3: |
Nonequilibrium transport and nanodevices / 8.4: |
Nonequilibrium transport in mesoscopic structures / 9.1: |
Semiconductor nanodevices in the real world / 9.2: |
Quantum simulations via the scattering matrix / 9.3: |
Real-time Green's functions / 9.4: |
Index |