Mesoscopic Electronics in Solid State Nanostructures, Second Edition

✍ Scribed by Prof. Dr. Thomas Heinzel(auth.)

• Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 401
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This text treats electronic transport in the regime where conventional textbook models are no longer applicable, including the effect of electronic phase coherence, energy quantization and single-electron charging. This second edition is completely updated and expanded, and now comprises new chapters on spin electronics and quantum information processing, transport in inhomogeneous magnetic fields, organic/molecular electronics, and applications of field effect transistors. The book also provides an overview of semiconductor processing technologies and experimental techniques. With a number of examples and problems with solutions, this is an ideal introduction for students and beginning researchers in the field.

"This book is a useful tool, too, for the experienced researcher to get a summary of recent developments in solid state nanostructures. I applaud the author for a marvellous contribution to the scientific community of mesoscopic electronics."
-Prof. K. Ensslin, Solid State Physics Laboratory, ETH Zurich

Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–14):
Chapter 2 An Update of Solid State Physics (pages 15–55):
Chapter 3 Surfaces, Interfaces, and Layered Devices (pages 57–95):
Chapter 4 Experimental Techniques (pages 97–137):
Chapter 5 Important Quantities in Mesoscopic Transport (pages 139–146):
Chapter 6 Magneto?transport Properties of Quantum Films (pages 147–176):
Chapter 7 Quantum Wires and Quantum Point Contacts (pages 177–222):
Chapter 8 Electronic Phase Coherence (pages 223–246):
Chapter 9 Single?Electron Tunneling (pages 247–272):
Chapter 10 Quantum Dots (pages 273–307):
Chapter 11 Mesoscopic Superlattices (pages 309–321):
Chapter 12 Spintronics (pages 323–341):
Chapter A SI and CGS Units (pages 343–344):
Chapter B Correlation and Convolution (pages 345–348):
Chapter C Capacitance Matrix and Electrostatic Energy (pages 349–352):
Chapter D The Transfer Hamiltonian (pages 353–354):
Chapter E Solutions to Selected Exercises (pages 355–382):