MANASREH,OMAR

Semiconductor HETEROJUNCTIONS : AND NANOSTRUCTURES - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (xv, 554 pages) : illustrations 24CM

Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-544) and index.

1 Introduction; 2 Semiconductor crystals; 3 Band structure; 4 Envelope functions and effective mass approximation; 5 Material aspects of heterostructures, doping, surfaces, and gating; 6 Fabrication of semiconductor nanostructures; 7 Electrostatics of semiconductor nanostructures; 8 Quantum mechanics in semiconductor nanostructures; 9 Two-dimensional electron gases in heterostructures; 10 Diffusive classical transport in two-dimensional electron gases; 11 Ballistic electron transport in quantum point contacts; 12 Tunneling transport through potential barriers.

This introduction to the physics of semiconductor nanostructures and their transport properties emphasizes five fundamental transport phenomena: quantized conductance, tunnelling transport, the Aharonov-Bohm effect, the quantum Hall effect and the Coulomb blockade effect.

0191574171 9780191574177

9786612383816


Semiconductors.
Nanostructures.
Transport theory.
Semiconductors
Nanostructures
Semi-conducteurs.
Nanostructures.
Th�eorie du transport.
semiconductor.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Electronics--Solid State.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Electronics--Semiconductors.
Nanostructures
Semiconductors
Transport theory

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