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

We review a plethora of relevant experimental results on internal homogeneous crystal
nucleation in silicate glasses obtained in the last four decades, and their analyses in the …

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 importance of stress and strain effects on surface physics are reviewed. For this purpose
the following points are developed.(1) The elastic, thermodynamics and atomistic definitions …

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

Nanostructured surfaces can be broadly defined as substrates in which the typical features
have dimensions in the range 1–100 nm (although the upper limit of 100 nm may be relaxed …

We present an overview on approaches currently employed to fabricate advanced quantum
dot configurations by epitaxial growth. Widely investigated self-assembled quantum dots, ie …

A novel structure containing self-assembled, unstrained GaAs quantum dots is obtained by
combining solid-source molecular beam epitaxy and atomic-layer precise in situ etching …

Since the first studies in the late 1970s most of the researches on Si1− xGex nanostructures
have been motivated by their potential applications in micro, opto and nanoelectronic …

A microscopic picture for the GaAs overgrowth of self-organized InAs/GaAs (001) quantum
dots is developed. Scanning tunneling microscopy measurements reveal two cap** …