Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
1.1 Nanostructures:The impact
1.2 Mesoscopic observables in nanostructures
1.3 Space and time scales
1.4 An introduction to the subsequent chapters
1.5 What is omitted
2 Quantum confined systems
2.1 Nanostrue materials
2.2 Quantization in herojunction system
2.3 Lateral confinement:Quantum wires and quantum dots
2.4 Electronic states in quantum wires and quantum 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 Wavefunction treatment of tunneling
3.3 Current in resonant tuueling diodes
3.4 Landauer formula
3.5 The multi-channel case
3.6 Quantized conductance in nanostructures
3.7 Transport in quantum waveguied structures
3.8 Lattice Green's function method
3.9 Multi-probe formula
3.10 Magnetic fields and quantum waveguides
4 Quantum dots and single electron phenomena
5 Interference in diffusive transport
6 Temperature decay of fluctuations
7 Nonequilibrium transport and nanodevices
Index
