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Theory of Transport Properties of Semiconductor Nanostructures

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Eckehard Schöll

    1. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

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Part of the book series: Electronic Materials Series (EMAT, volume 4)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Eckehard Schöll
    Pages 1-25

  3. Hydrodynamic simulation of semiconductor devices

    • Massimo Rudan, Martino Lorenzini, Rossella Brunetti
    Pages 27-57

  4. Monte Carlo simulation of semiconductor transport

    • C. Jacoboni, R. Brunetti, P. Bordone
    Pages 59-101

  5. Cellular automaton approach for semiconductor transport

    • P. Vogl, G. Zandler, A. Rein, M. Saraniti
    Pages 103-126

  6. Quantum transport theory

    • A. P. Jauho
    Pages 127-171

  7. Density matrix theory of coherent ultrafast dynamics

    • Tilmann Kuhn
    Pages 173-214

  8. Dynamic and nonlinear transport in mesoscopic structures

    • M. Büttiker, T. Christen
    Pages 215-248

  9. Transport in systems with chaotic dynamics: Lateral superlattices

    • M. Suhrke, P. Rotter
    Pages 249-282

  10. Bloch oscillations and Wannier—Stark localization in semiconductor superlattices

    • Fausto Rossi
    Pages 283-320

  11. Vertical transport and domain formation in multiple quantum wells

    • Andreas Wacker
    Pages 321-355

  12. Scattering processes in low-dimensional structures

    • B. K. Ridley
    Pages 357-385

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 387-391
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About this book

Recent advances in the fabrication of semiconductors have created almost un­ limited possibilities to design structures on a nanometre scale with extraordinary electronic and optoelectronic properties. The theoretical understanding of elec­ trical transport in such nanostructures is of utmost importance for future device applications. This represents a challenging issue of today's basic research since it requires advanced theoretical techniques to cope with the quantum limit of charge transport, ultrafast carrier dynamics and strongly nonlinear high-field ef­ fects. This book, which appears in the electronic materials series, presents an over­ view of the theoretical background and recent developments in the theory of electrical transport in semiconductor nanostructures. It contains 11 chapters which are written by experts in their fields. Starting with a tutorial introduction to the subject in Chapter 1, it proceeds to present different approaches to transport theory. The semiclassical Boltzmann transport equation is in the centre of the next three chapters. Hydrodynamic moment equations (Chapter 2), Monte Carlo techniques (Chapter 3) and the cellular au­ tomaton approach (Chapter 4) are introduced and illustrated with applications to nanometre structures and device simulation. A full quantum-transport theory covering the Kubo formalism and nonequilibrium Green's functions (Chapter 5) as well as the density matrix theory (Chapter 6) is then presented.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

    Eckehard Schöll

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Theory of Transport Properties of Semiconductor Nanostructures

  • Editors: Eckehard Schöll

  • Series Title: Electronic Materials Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5807-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-412-73100-6Published: 31 December 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7661-3Published: 14 March 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-5807-1Published: 27 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 391

  • Topics: Optical and Electronic Materials

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