This book deals with basic structures important for a new kiund of electronics and optoelectronics, to proceed from microelectronics to nanoelectronics.

Concentrates on: one-particle properties, many-electron dot, probing of a dot with tunneling, FIR, PL Comparison of band-structure and effective-mass-method based models

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Creation and Structure of Quantum Dots.- 3. Single-Particle States of Quantum Dots.- 4. Properties of an Interacting System.- 5. Intraband Optical Transitions.- 6. Interband Optical Transitions.- 7. Capacitance Spectroscopy.- 8. Description of the Properties of Self-Assembled Quantum Dots Within the Band-Structure Model.- 9. Description of a Many-Electron Quantum Dot with the Inclusion of the Spin-Orbit Interaction.- 10. Description of an Exciton in a Quantum Dot Within the Effective-Mass Approximation.- References.