Primary goal of the present volume is to provide a cohesive description of the
vast area of semiconductor quantum devices, with special emphasis on basic
quantum-mechanical phenomena governing the electro-optical response of
new-generation nanomaterials. The book covers within a common theoretical
framework different types of optoelectronic nanodevices, including quantumcascade
laser sources and detectors, few-electron/exciton quantum devices,
and semiconductor-based quantum logic gates. Distinguished 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.