Semiconductor quantum dots is among the fields of solid state physics that have experienced the greatest progress in the last decade. Recent years have witnessed the discovery of many striking new aspects of the optical response and electronic transport phenomena. The advent of various techniques for fabricating well-controlled nanostructures and the development of powerful methods of microimaging a single quantum dot have accelerated the discovery of new phenomena in semiconductor physics. This book surveys this progress in the physics, optical spectroscopy and application-oriented research of semiconductor quantum dots. It focuses especially on excitons, multi-excitons, their dynamical relaxation behaviour and their interactions with the surroundings of a semiconductor quantum dot. Recent developments in fabrication techniques are reviewed and potential applications discussed. This book will serve not only as an introductory textbook for graduate students but also as a concise guide for active researchers.

Klappentext

Semiconductor quantum dots represent one of the fields of solid state physics that have experienced the greatest progress in the last decade. Recent years have witnessed the discovery of many striking new aspects of the optical response and electronic transport phenomena. This book surveys this progress in the physics, optical spectroscopy and application-oriented research of semiconductor quantum dots. It focuses especially on excitons, multi-excitons, their dynamical relaxation behaviour and their interactions with the surroundings of a semiconductor quantum dot. Recent developments in fabrication techniques are reviewed and potential applications discussed. This book will serve not only as an introductory textbook for graduate students but also as a concise guide for active researchers.

Inhalt

1 Growth of Self-Organized Quantum Dots.- 2 Excitonic Structures and Optical Properties of Quantum Dots.- 3 Electron-Phonon Interactions in Semiconductor Quantum Dots.- 4 Micro-Imaging and Single Dot Spectroscopy of Self-Assembled Quantum Dots.- 5 Persistent Spectral Hole Burning in Semiconductor Quantum Dots.- 6 Dynamics of Carrier Relaxation in Self-Assembled Quantum Dots.- 7 Resonant Two-Photon Spectroscopy of Quantum Dots.- 8 Homogeneous Width of Confined Excitons in Quantum Dots - Experimental.- 9 Theory of Exciton Dephasing in Semiconductor Quantum Dots.- 10 Excitonic Optical Nonlinearity and Weakly Correlated Exciton-Pair States.- 11 Coulomb Effects in the Optical Spectra of Highly Excited Semiconductor Quantum Dots.- 12 Device Applications of Quantum Dots.