Preface
Acknowledgements
List of symbols
1 Prologue:an atomistic view of electrical resistance
2 Schrodinger equation
3 Self-consistent field
4 Basis functions
5 Bandstructure
6 Subbands
7 Capacitance
8 Level broadening
9 Coherent transport
10 Non-coherent transport
11 Atom to transistor
12 Epilogue
Appendix:advanced formalism
Matlab codes used to generate text figures