Nanostructures
Subtitle: Theory and Modeling
By: by Christophe Delerue, Michel Lannoo
Contributors: Lannoo, Michel, author; SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: NanoScience and Technology
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9783662089033
Subjects: Materials science; Nanotechnology; Numerical and Computational Physics; Quantum optics
Description: Progress in nanoscience is becoming increasingly dependent on simulation and modelling. This is due to a combination of three factors: the reduced size of nano-objects, the increasing power of computers, and the development of new theoretical methods. This book represents the first attempt to provide the theoretical background needed by physicists, engineers and students to simulate nanodevices, semiconductor quantum dots and molecular devices. It presents in a unified way the theoretical concepts, the more recent semi-empirical and ab-initio methods, and their application to experiments. The topics include quantum confinement, dielectric and optical properties, non-radiative processes, defects and impurities, and quantum transport. This guidebook not only provides newcomers with an accessible overview (requiring only basic knowledge of quantum mechanics and solid-state physics) but also provides active researchers with practical simulation tools.
Table of contents: title: 1 General Basis for Computations and Theoretical Models; title: 2 Quantum Confined Systems; title: 3 Dielectric Properties; title: 4 Quasi-particles and Excitons; title: 5 Optical Properties and Radiative Processes; title: 6 Defects and Impurities; title: 7 Non-radiative and Relaxation Processes; title: 8 Transport; title: A Matrix Elements of the Renormalizing Potential; title: B Macroscopic Averages in Maxwell’s Equations; title: C Polarization Correction; title: References.