Quantum Transport
Atom to Transistor

This book presents the atomistic theory of matter related to current flow. MATLAB code and videostreamed lectures are available on the Web.

Supriyo Datta (Author)

9780521631457, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 16 June 2005

420 pages
25.5 x 18.1 x 3.4 cm, 0.99 kg

'In recent years, scientists have developed a powerful practical technique based on Green function methods for calculating transport through small open systems. Supriyo Datta is one of its leading exponents and his new textbook makes a valiant and fascinating effort to use the formalism to provide a simple exposition of quantum transport on the atomic scale … It is more accessible, more embracing and a much better read than his earlier monograph Electronic Transport in Mesoscopic Systems. It contains excellent examples, good breadth and progressive detail, and is of real value to electronic engineers, physicists, and chemists researching modern interdisciplinary nanoelectronics.' Chemistry World

This book presents the conceptual framework underlying the atomistic theory of matter, emphasizing those aspects that relate to current flow. This includes some of the most advanced concepts of non-equilibrium quantum statistical mechanics. No prior acquaintance with quantum mechanics is assumed. Chapter 1 provides a description of quantum transport in elementary terms accessible to a beginner. The book then works its way from hydrogen to nanostructures, with extensive coverage of current flow. The final chapter summarizes the equations for quantum transport with illustrative examples showing how conductors evolve from the atomic to the ohmic regime as they get larger. Many numerical examples are used to provide concrete illustrations and the corresponding Matlab codes can be downloaded from the web. Videostreamed lectures, keyed to specific sections of the book, are also available through the web. This book is primarily aimed at senior and graduate students.

Foreword
1. Prologue - electrical resistance: an atomistic view
2. Schrödinger equation
3. Self-consistent field
4. Basis functions
5. Bandstructure
6. Subbands
7. Capacitance
8. Level broadening
9. Coherent transport
10. Non-coherent transport
11. Atom to transistor
Epilogue
Appendix/advanced formalism
Selected bibliography
MATLAB codes for text figures.

Subject Areas: Semi-conductors & super-conductors [TJFD5], Electronics engineering [TJF], Electronics & communications engineering [TJ], Nanotechnology [TBN], Technology: general issues [TB]