Research on conducting and semiconducting solids has become one of the fashionable
subjects in the field of physics for the last four or five decades partly because of the …

The application of femtosecond spectroscopy to the study of ultrafast dynamics in
semiconductor materials and nanostructures is reviewed with particular emphasis on the …

Low-dimensional semiconductors provide a marvelous platform for pursuing versatile
photocatalytic solar energy conversion. Compared with the bulk counterparts, low …

The reduced point symmetry C 2 v of a zinc-blende-based (001) interface allows mixing
between heavy-and light-hole states even under normal incidence. We have generalized …

The quantum-confined Stark effect (QCSE) is an established optical modulation mechanism,
yet top-performing modulators harnessing it rely on costly fabrication processes. Here, we …

This work contains a theoretical analysis of the optical properties of semiconductor quantum
wells embedded in planar Fabry-Perot microcavities. In particular, the properties of the …

Zinc-blende (ZB) cadmium selenide (CdSe) nanoplatelets (NPLs) have drawn increasing
attention as an ideal condensed-phase material for facilitating photon-to-spin transduction in …

Low-dimensional semiconductors have become a vital part of today's semiconductor
physics, and excitons in these systems are ideal objects that bring textbook quantum …

The InSb thin films were successfully prepared from binary alloy target by Pulsed Laser
Deposition (PLD) onto heated Si/SiO 2 substrates at various deposition temperatures (T d) …

Double quantum wells are among the simplest semiconductor heterostructures exhibiting
tunnel coupling. The existence of a quantum confinement effect for the energy levels of a …