Optical properties of semiconductor quantum dots
By: Ulrike Woggon.
Series: Springer tracts in modern physics,; v. 136; Springer tracts in modern physics ;; 136.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Wide gap semiconductors -- Optical properties.; Quantum electronics.; Quantum dots.
Description: This book presents an overview of the current understanding of the physics of zero-dimensional semiconductors. It concentrates mainly on quantum dots of wide-gap semiconductors, but touches also on zero-dimensional systems based on silicon and III-V materials. After providing the reader with a theoretical background, the author illustrates the specific properties of three-dimensionally confined semiconductors, such as the size dependence of energy states, optical transitions, and dephasing mechanisms, with the results from numerous experiments in linear and nonlinear spectroscopy. Technological aspects of the growth concepts and the potential of this new class of semiconductor materials for electro-optic and nonlinear optical devices are also discussed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-248) and index.