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
