介觀物理是凝聚態物理的一個活躍的分支。自八十年代初以來， 已迅速發展成為函蓋基礎與應用研究的領域。
本書是一本研究生教材，主要介紹介觀繫統中的電子輸運理論。由於介觀物理方面的教科書不多，本書的出版受到歡迎。
本書比較繫統地介紹了介觀量子輸運的兩種主要理論，即“散射矩陣理論”和“非平衡格林函數理論”，但以前者為主。另外，也討論了兩種理論之間的聯繫。書中對基本概念的闡述比較清晰，內容循序漸進，每一章首有引導，章末有小結及習題，書末還附有題解，比較適合教學的需要。

Acknowledgements
A few common symbols
Introdctory remarks
1 Preliminary concepts
1.1 Two-dimensional electron gas(2-DEG)
1.2 Effective mass,density of states ect.
1.3 Characteristic lengths
1.4 Low-Field magnetoresistance
1.5 High-field magnetoresistance
1.6 Transverse Modes(or magneto-electric subbands)
1.7 Drift velocity of Fermi velocity?
Summary
Exercises
2 Conductance from Transmission
2.1 Resistance of a ballistic conductor
2.2 Landauer formula
2.3 Where is the resistance?
2.4 What deos a voltage probe measure?
2.5 Non-zero temperature and bias
2.6 Exclusion principle?
2.7 When can we use the Landauer-Buttiker formalism?
Summary
Exercises
3 Transmission function,S-matric and Green's functions
4 Quantum Hall effect
5 Localization and Fluctuations
6 Double-barrier tunneling
7 Optical analgoies
8 Non-equilibrium Green's function fromalism
Concluding remarks
Solutions of exercises
Index