Much-needed update on experimental research into mesoscopic devices for graduate students and researchers in mesoscopic physics, nanoelectronics, and semiconductor nanostructures.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Nanostructures: the impact -- 1.2. Mesoscopic observables in nanostructures -- 1.3. Space and time scales -- 1.4. Nanostructures and nanodevices -- 1.5. introduction to the subsequent chapters -- 1.6. What is omitted -- 2. Quantum confined systems -- 2.1. Nanostructure materials -- 2.2. Quantization in heterojunction systems -- 2.3. Lateral confinement: quantum wires and quantum dots -- 2.4. Electronic states in quantum wires and dots -- 2.5. Magnetic field effects in quantum confined systems -- 2.6. Screening and collective excitations in low-dimensional systems -- 2.7. Homogeneous transport in low-dimensional systems -- 3. Transmission in nanostructures -- 3.1. Tunneling in planar barrier structures -- 3.2. Current in resonant tunneling diodes -- 3.3. Landauer formula -- 3.4. multi-channel case -- 3.5. Transport in quantum waveguide structures -- 4. quantum Hall effects -- 4.1. integer quantum Hall effect in two-dimensional electron systems -- 4.2. Edge-state propagation in nanostructures -- 4.3. fractional quantum Hall effect -- 4.4. many-body picture -- 5. Ballistic transport in quantum wires -- 5.1. Conductance quantization in quantum point contacts -- 5.2. Non-integer conductance quantization in quantum point contacts -- 5.3. Some ballistic device concepts -- 6. Quantum dots -- 6.1. Fundamentals of single-electron tunneling -- 6.2. Single-electron tunneling in semiconductor quantum dots -- 6.3. Coupled quantum dots as artificial molecules -- 6.4. Quantum interference due to spatial wave function coherence in quantum dots -- 7. Weakly disordered systems -- 7.1. Disordered semiconductors -- 7.2. Conductivity -- 7.3. Weak localization -- 7.4. Universal conductance fluctuations -- 7.5. Green's functions in disordered materials -- 8. Temperature decay of fluctuations -- 8.1. Temperature decay of coherence -- 8.2. role of temperature on the fluctuations -- 8.3. Electron-electron interaction effects -- 8.4. Conductivity -- 9. Nonequilibrium transport and nanodevices -- 9.1. Nonequilibrium transport in mesoscopic structures -- 9.2. Semiconductor nanodevices in the real world -- 9.3. Quantum simulations via the scattering matrix -- 9.4. Real-time Green's functions.
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Much-needed update on experimental research into mesoscopic devices for graduate students and researchers in mesoscopic physics, nanoelectronics, and semiconductor nanostructures.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Nanostructures: the impact -- 1.2. Mesoscopic observables in nanostructures -- 1.3. Space and time scales -- 1.4. Nanostructures and nanodevices -- 1.5. introduction to the subsequent chapters -- 1.6. What is omitted -- 2. Quantum confined systems -- 2.1. Nanostructure materials -- 2.2. Quantization in heterojunction systems -- 2.3. Lateral confinement: quantum wires and quantum dots -- 2.4. Electronic states in quantum wires and dots -- 2.5. Magnetic field effects in quantum confined systems -- 2.6. Screening and collective excitations in low-dimensional systems -- 2.7. Homogeneous transport in low-dimensional systems -- 3. Transmission in nanostructures -- 3.1. Tunneling in planar barrier structures -- 3.2. Current in resonant tunneling diodes -- 3.3. Landauer formula -- 3.4. multi-channel case -- 3.5. Transport in quantum waveguide structures -- 4. quantum Hall effects -- 4.1. integer quantum Hall effect in two-dimensional electron systems -- 4.2. Edge-state propagation in nanostructures -- 4.3. fractional quantum Hall effect -- 4.4. many-body picture -- 5. Ballistic transport in quantum wires -- 5.1. Conductance quantization in quantum point contacts -- 5.2. Non-integer conductance quantization in quantum point contacts -- 5.3. Some ballistic device concepts -- 6. Quantum dots -- 6.1. Fundamentals of single-electron tunneling -- 6.2. Single-electron tunneling in semiconductor quantum dots -- 6.3. Coupled quantum dots as artificial molecules -- 6.4. Quantum interference due to spatial wave function coherence in quantum dots -- 7. Weakly disordered systems -- 7.1. Disordered semiconductors -- 7.2. Conductivity -- 7.3. Weak localization -- 7.4. Universal conductance fluctuations -- 7.5. Green's functions in disordered materials -- 8. Temperature decay of fluctuations -- 8.1. Temperature decay of coherence -- 8.2. role of temperature on the fluctuations -- 8.3. Electron-electron interaction effects -- 8.4. Conductivity -- 9. Nonequilibrium transport and nanodevices -- 9.1. Nonequilibrium transport in mesoscopic structures -- 9.2. Semiconductor nanodevices in the real world -- 9.3. Quantum simulations via the scattering matrix -- 9.4. Real-time Green's functions.
