Semiconductor Nanostructures

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bimberg, Dieter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: NanoScience and Technology,
• Subjects: Materials science.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Nanotechnology.; Materials > Surfaces.; Thin films.; Materials Science.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.

Reducing the size of a coherently grown semiconductor cluster in all three directions of space to a value below the de Broglie wavelength of a charge carrier leads to complete quantization of the energy levels, density of states, etc. Such "quantum dots" are more similar to giant atoms in...

Table of Contents:

• Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Quantum Dot Growth
• Control of Self-Organized In(Ga)As/GaAs Quantum Dot Growth
• In-Situ Monitoring for Nano-Structure Growth in MOVPE
• Bottom-up Approach to the Nanopatterning of Si(001)
• Structural Characterisation of Quantum Dots by X-Ray Diffraction and TEM
• The Atomic Structure of Quantum Dots
• Theory of Excitons in InGaAs/GaAs Quantum Dots
• Phonons in Quantum Dots and Their Role in Exciton Dephasing
• Theory of the Optical Response of Singleand Coupled Semiconductor Quantum Dots
• Theory of Nonlinear Transport for Ensembles of Quantum Dots
• Quantum Dots for Memories
• Visible-Bandgap II–VI Quantum Dot Heterostructures
• Narrow-Gap Nanostructuresin Strong Magnetic Fields
• Optical Properties of III–V Quantum Dots
• Ultrafast Coherent Spectroscopy of Single Semiconductor Quantum Dots
• Single-Photon Generation from Single Quantum Dots.