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The Physics of Low-dimensional Semiconductors: An Introduction

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The first book you should read if you wanna do some Low Dimentional Electron Physics and only learned Solid State Physics before. It just covers all topics in this field --- with the knowledge in this book, you could read any new paper published recently.
And this book's written style is very friendly --- just a textbook! So it could be finished in 2 days if you know the basic notions in Solid State Physics and concentrate on it.

So there is no match for such a good introductory book --- there's no other ones like this --- I searched a lot when I tried to enter this field, and this is a good choice:)

Readable introductions to mesoscopic physics are few and far between, many being either far too simplistic and naive or too mired in formalism. Davies gives clear and lucid discussions of such topics as electron confinement in quantum wells, the integral quantum Hall effect, quantum point contacts, and MODFET's/HEMT's. Although by no means extensive and in depth, Davies does point out simplifications and refers the interested reader to relevant references for more details. Overall, it is a balanced introduction.

This book is a useful point of entry for undergraduates to low-dimensional semiconductor physics. Reading this book is good preparation for more advanced and specialized literature including: Solid State Physics vol. 44 ed. Ehrenreich and Turnbull; Perspectives in Quantum Hall Effects, Das Sarma and Pinczuk.

As with any new text, there are errata but an up to date webpage of corrections is maintained by the author.

The book is pretty good and very useful! What I find most exciting is that the author always explains you the phenomena physically --- not only mathematically, which helps you to have a better understanding of the physical mechanisms. I ensure you that you will have a clearly "feeling" of the phenomena which are badly explained in other books.

Each figure is well prepared, each sentence is clearly written. This is a book need to be read extensively, not roughly. This is also a great reference book since it does not struggles with too much details but only the essentials.

But you'd better have learnt Quantum Mechanics and Solid State Physics before. Otherwise, you will find yourself lost. Therefore this book is NOT written for a freshman.

i read this book and it seems to be very readable. it explains the physics behind the quantum heterostructures in a lucid and tractable manner. i recommend this volume before reading the treatise by weisbach & vinter. those who want to start research on quantum structures will find this book as an invaluable resource. its comprehensive and almost exhaustive.

As a graduate student working on semiconductor devices, this book is an incredible reference. Davies only assumes about an undergraduate familiarity with the subject, making the text a great "bridge" from core textbooks to research papers. There have been many occasions when, upon not understanding a paper, reading a section in this book made everything clear.

Graduate level concepts are expounded upon in the manner of an undergraduate text (i.e. readable. Boggle!). John Davies does not assume that the reader has already done all of the calculations available in the field. Rich conceptual descriptions are rooted in an easy formalism accessible to anyone with a background in the elements of physics. This text is proof that even the exotic physics of quantum mechanics in reduced dimensions is not difficult when care is taken by the author to relate to the reader as a student rather than a peer.

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Possibly with strong background in Quantum Mechanics and Advanced Mathematics - the book is readable. Otherwise, the authors incomplete explanations make the book entirely incomprehensible.