The book may be used as a textbook by graduate students. It will also benefit researchers in the field by helping them grasp the basic principles and techniques of the method, without having to spend a lot of time digging out the information from widespread literature covering a period of 30 years.
Contents: Main Physical Considerations and Transport Balance Equations; DC Steady-State Transport; Time-Dependent and High-Frequency Transport; Center-of-Mass Velocity Fluctuations, Noise and Diffusion; Effects of Nonequilibrium and Confined Phonons; Systems with Several Species of Carriers; Balance Equation Transport Theory and Electron Correlation; Balance Equation Approach to Magnetotransport; Higher-Order Scatterings and Alternative Formulations of Balance Equation Theory; Weakly Nonuniform Systems, Hydrodynamic Balance Equations; Balance Equations for Hot Electron Transport in an Arbitrary Energy Band; Miniband Transport in Semiconductor Superlattices; Nonparabolic Systems with Magnetic Field, Impact Ionization or under Nonuniform Condition; Carrier Transport in Semiconductors Driven by THz Radiation Fields; Radiation Driven Magnetotransport in Two-Dimensional Systems in Faraday Geometry.
