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Written by a respected investigator with extensive experience in optoelectronicproperties of semiconductors quantum structures nanostructures and relateddevices this rigorous text comprehensively untangles the complexities of IIIV semiconductor nanostructures starting from the bulk materials and ending withselfassembled quantum dots. Omar Manasrehs Semiconductor Heterojunctions andNanostructures explains the underlying physics of heterojunctions quantumwells quantum dots and related electronic and optoelectronic devices. Thetextbook is constructed for two courses an introductory graduateundergraduatesenior course and an advance graduate course. While the book is primarily agraduate text it can be used for short courses as well as a reference fornewcomers and advanced researchers in the field of semiconductornanostructures. This text features clear readable coverage of Anintroduction to quantum mechanics Electrical and transport properties Potentialbarriers and wells Electronic energy levels in periodic potentials Tunnelingthrough potential barriers Distribution functions and density of states Opticalproperties of interband and intersubband transitions Growth technologies Bulkthin films and nanostructures Electronic and optoelectronic devices HBTsHEMTs or MODFETs HFETs SETs and Coulomb blockade infrared detectors LEDsedgeemitting lasers VCSELs quantum cascade lasers and quantum dotlasersAdditionally the contents include comprehensive stepbysteptheoretical derivations needed to understand many advanced concepts of the everchanging field of nanostructures. Many properties of quantum structures aresupported by experimentalobservation and explanations. Major topics includeIntroduction to quantum mechanics Tunneling phenomena Density of statesin lowdimensional systems Equilibrium nonequilibrium ballistic andcoherence transports Optical properties of interband and intersubband t «