Table of Contents

The Bottom-Up Approach; Introductory Concepts: Why Electrons Flow; The Elastic Resistor; The New Ohm's Law; Where is the Resistance?; Transverse Modes; Drude Formula; Kubo Formula; How Realistic is an Elastic Resistor?; Semiclassical & Quantum Transport: The Nanotransistor; Semiclassical Transport and the SCF Method; Resistance and Uncertainty; Quantum Transport: Schrodinger to NEGF; Resonant Tunneling and Anderson Localization; Coulomb Blockade and Mott Transition; Spin Blockade; Hall Effect / QHE; Beyond Voltages and Currents: Thermoelectricity; Heat Flow; Spin Flow; Spin Transistor; Entropy Flow And Maxwell's Demon; Epilogue: Physics in a Grain of Sand; Solutions to Exercises; Additional Problems.