Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Subtitle: From Basic Principles to Applications
By: edited by Alexander L. Efros, David J. Lockwood, Leonid Tsybeskov
Contributors: Lockwood, David J., editor; Tsybeskov, Leonid, editor; SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Nanostructure Science and Technology
Published: 2003
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781475736779
Subjects: Materials science; Solid state physics; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Spectroscopy and Microscopy; Surfaces (Physics); Optical and Electronic Materials; Optical materials
Description: A physics book that covers the optical properties of quantum-confined semiconductor nanostructures from both the theoretical and experimental points of view together with technological applications. Topics to be reviewed include quantum confinement effects in semiconductors, optical adsorption and emission properties of group IV, III-V, II-VI semiconductors, deep-etched and self assembled quantum dots, nanoclusters, and laser applications in optoelectronics.
Table of contents: title: 1. Photonic Applications of Semiconductor-Doped Glasses; title: 2. Auger Processes in Nanosize Semiconductor Crystals; title: 3. Carrier Dynamics, Optical Nonlinearities, and Optical Gain in Nanocrystal Quantum Dots; title: 4. Novel Device Applications of Stranski-Krastanov Quantum Dots; title: 5. Porous Silicon as an Open Dielectric Nanostructure; title: 6. Nanocrystalline Silicon-Silicon Dioxide Superlattices: Structural and Optical Properties; title: 7. Quantum Dot Photonic Crystals.