Primary goal of this book is to provide a cohesive description of the vast field of
semiconductor quantum devices with special emphasis on basic quantum-mechanical phenomena
governing the electro-optical response of new-generation nanomaterials. The book will cover
within a common language different types of optoelectronic nanodevices including
quantum-cascade laser sources and detectors few-electron exciton quantum devices and
semiconductor-based quantum logic gates. The distinguishing feature of the present volume is a
unified microscopic treatment of quantum-transport and coherent-optics phenomena on ultrasmall
space- and time-scales as well as of their semiclassical counterparts.
