Preface
Introduction
1. Foundations
2. Electrons and phonons in crystals
3. Heterostructures
4. Quantum wells and low-dimensional systems
5. Tunnelling transport
6. Electric and magnetic fields
7. Approximate methods
8. Scattering rates: the Golden Rule
9. The two-dimensional electron gas
10. Optical properties of quantum wells
Appendix 1. Table of physical constants
Appendix 2. Properties of important semiconductors
Appendix 3. Properties of GaAs-AlAs alloys at room temperature
Appendix 4. Hermite's equation: harmonic oscillator
Appendix 5. Airy functions: triangular well
Appendix 6. Kramers-Kronig relations and response functions
Bibliography.