Optical properties of semiconductor quantum dots /

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 theor...

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Main Author: Woggon, Ulrike, 1958-
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [1997]
Series:Springer tracts in modern physics ; 136.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 251 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and index.
ISBN:9783540496717 (electronic bk.)
3540496718 (electronic bk.)
ISSN:0081-3869 ;