Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: Semiconductor Crystals
3: Band Structure
4: Envelope function and effective mass approximation
5: Material aspects of heterostructures, doping, surfaces, and gating
6: Fabrication of semiconductor nanostructures
7: Electrostatics of Semiconductor nanostructures
8: Quantum mechanics of semiconductor nanostructures
9: Two-dimensional electron gases in heterostructures
10: Diffusive classical transport in two-dimensional electron gases
11: Ballistic electron transport in quantum point contacts
12: Tunneling transport through potential barriers
13: Multiterminal systems
14: Interference effects in nanostructures
15: Diffusive quantum transport
16: Magnetotransport in two-dimensional systems
17: Interaction effects in diffusive two-dimensional systems
18: Quantum dots
19: Coupled quantum dots
20: Electronic noise in semiconductor nanostructures
21: The Fano effect
22: Measurements of the transmission phase
23: Controlled dephasing experiments
24: Quantum information processing

About the Author

Professor Thomas Ihn took his PhD in Physics in 1994 at TU Munich, Germany, then did post-doctoral work at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham. He began work as a Research Assistant at the Solid State Physics Laboratory, ETH Zurich, in 1998, and is now Professor of Physics there.

Reviews

`Very helpful for graduate and doctoral students in the field.'
Jorg P. Kotthaus, Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
`A good book on quantum transport in semiconductor nanostructures, which fills an existing niche in the market. Highly topical and very nicely illustrated.
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Laurence Eaves, Nottingham University