Description: Primary goal of this book is to provide a cohesive description of the vast field of semiconductor quantum devices, with special emphasis on basic quantum-mechanical phenomena governing the electro-optical response of new-generation nanomaterials. The book will cover within a common language different types of optoelectric nanodevices, including quantum-cascade laser sources and detectors, few-electron/exiton quantum devices, and semiconductor-based quantum logic gates. The distinguishing feature of the present volume is a unified microscopic treatment of quantum-transport and coherent-optics phenomena on ultrasmall space- and time-scales, as well as of their semiclassical counterparts.
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"This book is the result of 20 years of research activities on fundamental issues related to quantum transport as well as coherent optical phenomena in semiconductor bulk and nanostructures. It covers different types of optoelectronic nanodevices, including quantum cascade laser sources and detectors, electron/exciton quantum devices and semiconductor based quantum logic gates. It is well organized and includes references and an index. ... suitable for graduate students as well as researchers." (Lisa Tongning Li, Optics & Photonics News, July, 2011)