The generation, manipulation, storage, and detection of single photons play a central role in
emerging photonic quantum information technology. Individual photons serve as flying …

Instabilities in semiconductor heterostructure growth can be exploited for the self-organized
formation of nanostructures, allowing for carrier confinement in all three spatial dimensions …

The III-nitrides include the semiconductors AlN, GaN and InN, which have band gaps
spanning the entire UV and visible ranges. Thin films of III-nitrides are used to make UV …

Many potential applications of semiconductor nanocrystals are hindered by nonradiative
Auger recombination wherein the electron− hole (exciton) recombination energy is …

During the last 20 years interest in high-resolution x-ray diffractometry and reflectivity has
grown as a result of the development of the semiconductor industry and the increasing …

This book reviews recent advances in the exciting and rapid growing field of semiconductor
quantum dots by contributions from some of the most prominent researchers in the field …

In semiconductor heteroepitaxy the growing film frequently undergoes a series of strain relief
mechanisms that may include surface reconstruction, step bunching, faceting, and finally …

Many recent advances in microelectronics would not have been possible without the
development of strain induced nanodevices and bandgap engineering, in particular …

We have measured the vertical Stark effect of excitons confined to individual self-assembled
ring-shaped quantum dots. We find that the excitons have very large permanent dipole …

We present a cross-sectional scanning-tunneling microscopy investigation of the shape,
size, and composition of InAs quantum dots in a GaAs matrix, grown by molecular beam …