Quantum wells wires and dots : theoretical and computational physics of semiconductor nanostructures Semiconductors and heterostructures Solutions to Schrödingers equation Numerical solutions Diffusion Impurities Excitons Strained quantum wells Simple models of quantum wires and dots Quantum dots Carrier scattering Optical properties of quantum wells Carrier transport Optical waveguides Multiband envelope function (k.p) method Empirical pseudo potential bandstructure Pseudo potential calculations of nanostructures