Electrical transport in nanoscale systems /

Ventra, Massimiliano Di.

Electrical transport in nanoscale systems / Massimiliano Di Ventra. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2008. - xvi, 476 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A primer on electron transport
Drude model, Kubo formalism and Boltzmann equation
Landauer approach
Non-equilibrium Green's function formalism
Electron-ion interaction
The micro-canonical picture of transport
Hydrodynamics of the electron liquid
Appendices.

This is a graduate textbook describing the transport phenomena in systems of nanoscale dimensions for students in physics, chemistry, and electrical engineering.

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Nanoelectromechanical systems.
Electric conductivity.

620.5 / VEN