Transport in Nanostructures

David Ferry is Regents' Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University. His areas of research include nanoelectronic devices, quantum transport, and nonequilibrium transport. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and of the Institute of Physics (UK). Stephen M. Goodnick is Director of the Arizona Institute for Nanoelectronics and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University, where he researches transport in semiconductor devices, computational electronics, quantum and nanostructured devices and device technology. Jonathan Bird is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University at Buffalo. His research interests lie in the area of nanoelectronics. He is the co-author of more than two hundred peer-reviewed publications, and of undergraduate and graduate textbooks.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Quantum confined systems; 3. Transmission in nanostructures; 4. Quantum Hall effect; 5.Quantum Wireson-Abelian geometries; 6. Quantum dots; 7. Weakly disordered systems; 8. Temperature decay of fluctuations; 9. Nonequilibrium transport and nanodevices; Index.

Reviews from the first edition 'The authors have produced an excellent summary of the state-of-the-art, which is highly recommended to those working in this fascinating area.' J. J. Harris, Contemporary Physics