| Abstract Note | This book, which provides an introduction to the field of nanoelectronics, explains the physical phenomena that take place in nanoelectronic structures and explains how these phenomena are accessed in measurements. The emphasis is on phenomena taking place at low temperatures, where thermal noise cannot completely suppress the interesting physics. The book details the theory of the phenomena as much as possible without the use of heavy formalism. The main topics it discusses are the semiclassical theory of electron transport, the scattering theory of quantum transport, quantum interference effects, superconductivity, noise and fluctuations, single-electron tunnelling, quantum dots, heat transport in superconducting heterostructures, superconducting quantum bits, electron transport in graphene, and nanoelectromechanics. While the book aims to provide a historical overview of the development of the field, it also presents and explains the advances that have taken place in the past few years. |