Semiconductor nanostructures quantum states and electronic transport

• Main Author: Ihn, Thomas (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
• Subjects: Semiconductors.; Nanostructures.; Transport theory.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9780191574177; 9780199534425; 9780199534432
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj (xv, 552 pages) : illustrations

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.

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.