Semiconductor nanostructures : quantum states and electronic transport /
This introduction to the physics of semiconductor nanostructures and their transport properties emphasizes five fundamental transport phenomena: quantized conductance, tunnelling transport, the Aharonov-Bohm effect, the quantum Hall effect and the Coulomb blockade effect.
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction; 2 Semiconductor crystals; 3 Band structure; 4 Envelope functions 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 in 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.
