Theory of Electron Transport in Semiconductors

PhD in Solid-state Physics at Purdue University (Indiana, USA) in 1969. Since then at the University of Modena with successive positions from research-assistant to Dean of the School of Sciences. Published 3 books and about 170 papers in the field of semiclassical and quantum theory of electron transport in semiconductors. His main contributions are related to the Monte Carlo simulation of electron transport in materials and devices, and to the application of the Wigner-function formalism to quantum transport.

• Basic concepts in semiconductor physics.- Survey of Classical Physics.- Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics.- Fundamentals of Statistical Physics.- Crystal Structures.- Phonons.- Bloch States and Band Theory.- Effective-Mass Theorems, Envelope Function, and Semiclassical Dynamics.- Semiconductors.- Semiclassical transport in bulk semiconductors.- Electronic Interactions.- Boltzmann Equation.- Linear Transport.- Diffusion, Fluctuations, and Noise.- Nonlinear Transport.- Monte Carlo Simulation of Bulk Electron Transport.- Bulk Transport Properties of Main Semiconductors.- Quantum transport in bulk semiconductors.- Quantum Transport in Homogeneous Systems.- The Wigner-Function Approach to Quantum Transport.- Transport in semiconductor structures.- Inhomogeneous and Open Systems: Electronic Devices.- Low-Dimensional Structures.- Carbon Nanotubes.- Coherent Transport in Mesoscopic Structures.- Semiconductor Photo Gallery.- Quantum transport with non-equilibrium Green functions.- Second-Quantization Formalism.- to Green Functions.- Wick–Matsubara Theorems.- Perturbation Expansion of Green Functions: Feynman Diagrams and Dyson Equation.- Nonequilibrium Green Functions Applied to Transport: Quantum Boltzmann Equation.- NonEquilibrium Green Functions Applied to Transport: Mesoscopic Systems.- Appendices.- Vector Spaces and Fourier Analysis.- One-Dimensional Potential Step, Barrier, and Well.- Quantum Theory of Harmonic Oscillator.- Landau Levels.- Perturbation Theory.