this book has grown out of our somewhat disorganized attempts to teach the physics and electronics of mesoscopic devices over the past decade. fortunately, these have evolved into a more consistent approach, and the book tryies to balance experiments and theory in the current understanding of mesoscopic physics. whenever possible, we attempt to first introduce the important experimental results in this field followed by the relevant theoretical approaches.the focus of the book is on electronic transport in nanostructure systems, and therefore by necessity we have omitted many important aspects of nanostructures such as their optical properties, or details of nanostructure fabrication. due to length considerations,many germane topics related to transport itself have not received full coverage, or have been referred to by reference. also, due to enormity of the literature related to this field, we have not included an exhavstive bibiography of nanostructure transport. rather, we have tried to refer the interested reader to comprehensive review articles and book chapters when possible.
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