Download or read book Optics of Semiconductors and Their Nanostructures written by Heinz Kalt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-07-13 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the field of semiconductor optics has been pushed to several extremes. The size of semiconductor structures has shrunk to dimensions of a few nanometers, the semiconductor-light interaction is studied on timescales as fast as a few femtoseconds, and transport properties on a length scale far below the wavelength of light have been revealed. These advances were driven by rapid improvements in both semiconductor and optical technologies and were further facilitated by progress in the theoretical description of optical excitations in semiconductors. This book, written by leading experts in the field, provides an up-to-date introduction to the optics of semiconductors and their nanostructures so as to help the reader understand these exciting new developments. It also discusses recently established applications, such as blue-light emitters, as well as the quest for future applications in areas such as spintronics, quantum information processing, and third-generation solar cells.
Download or read book Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Semiconductors and Semiconductor Nanostructures written by Jagdeep Shah and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultrafast spectroscopy of semiconductors and semiconductor nanostructures is currently one of the most exciting areas of research in condensed-matter physics. Remarkable recent progress in the generation of tunable femtosecond pulses has allowed direct investigation of the most fundamental dynamical processes in semiconductors. This second edition presents the most striking recent advances in the techniques of ultrashort pulse generation and ultrafast spectroscopy; it discusses the physics of relaxation, tunneling and transport dynamics in semiconductors and semiconductor nanostructures following excitation by femtosecond laser pulses.
Download or read book Optical Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanostructures written by Eougenious L. Ivchenko and published by Alpha Science Int'l Ltd.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume looks at optical spectroscopy of semiconductir nanostructures. Some of the topics it covers include: kingdom of nanostructures; quantum confinement in low-dimensional systems; resonant light reflection; and transmission and absorption.
Download or read book Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanostructures written by Marcin L. Sadowski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000-06-30 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optical methods for investigating semiconductors and the theoretical description of optical processes have always been an important part of semiconductor physics. Only the emphasis placed on different materials changes with time. Here, a large number of papers are devoted to quantum dots, presenting the theory, spectroscopic investigation and methods of producing such structures. Another major part of the book reflects the growing interest in diluted semiconductors and II-IV nanosystems in general. There are also discussions of the fascinating field of photonic crystals. `Classical' low dimensional systems, such as GsAs/GaAlAs quantum wells and heterostructures, still make up a significant part of the results presented, and they also serve as model systems for new phenomena. New materials are being sought, and new experimental techniques are coming on stream, in particular the combination of different spectroscopic modalities.
Download or read book Semiconductor Quantum Dots written by Yasuaki Masumoto and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-05-28 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growth of Self Organized Quantum Dots / J.-S. Lee / - Excitonic Structures and Optical Properties of Quantum Dots / Toshihide Takagahara / - Electron-Phonon Interactions in Semiconductor Quantum Dots / Toshihide Takagahara / - Micro-Imaging and Single Dot Spectroscopy of Self Assembled Quantum Dots / Mitsuru Sugisaki / - Persistent Spectral Hole Burning in Semiconductor Quantum Dots / Yasuaki Masumoto / - Dynamics of Carrier Relaxation in Self Assembled Quantum Dots / Ivan V. Ignatiev, Igor E. Kozin / - Resonant Two-Photon Spectroscopy of Quantum Dots / Alexander Baranov / - Homogeneous Width of Confined Excitons in Quantum Dots - Experimental / Yasuaki Masumoto / - Theory of Exciton Dephasing in Semiconductor Quantum Dots / Toshihide Takagahara / - Excitonic Optical Nonlinearity and Weakly Correlated Exciton-Pair States / Selvakumar V. Nair, Toshihide Takagahara / - Coulomb Effects in the Optical Spectra of Highly Excited Semiconductor Quantum Dots / Selvakumar V. Nair / - Device ...
Download or read book Optics of Semiconductors and Their Nanostructures written by Heinz Kalt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the field of semiconductor optics has been pushed to several extremes. The size of semiconductor structures has shrunk to dimensions of a few nanometers, the semiconductor-light interaction is studied on timescales as fast as a few femtoseconds, and transport properties on a length scale far below the wavelength of light have been revealed. These advances were driven by rapid improvements in both semiconductor and optical technologies and were further facilitated by progress in the theoretical description of optical excitations in semiconductors. This book, written by leading experts in the field, provides an up-to-date introduction to the optics of semiconductors and their nanostructures so as to help the reader understand these exciting new developments. It also discusses recently established applications, such as blue-light emitters, as well as the quest for future applications in areas such as spintronics, quantum information processing, and third-generation solar cells.
Download or read book Nanoscale Compound Semiconductors and their Optoelectronics Applications written by Vijay B. Pawade and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-21 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nanoscale Compound Semiconductors and their Optoelectronics Applications provides the basic and fundamental properties of nanoscale compound semiconductors and their role in modern technological products. The book discusses all important properties of this important category of materials such as their optical properties, size-dependent properties, and tunable properties. Key methods are reviewed, including synthesis techniques and characterization strategies. The role of compound semiconductors in the advancement of energy efficient optoelectronics and solar cell devices is also discussed. The book also touches on the photocatalytic property of the materials by doping with graphene oxides--an emerging and new pathway. Covers all relevant types of nanoscale compound semiconductors for optoelectronics, including their synthesis, properties and applications Provides historical context and review of emerging trends in semiconductor technology, particularly emphasizing advances in non-toxic semiconductor materials for green technologies Reviews emerging applications of nanoscale compound semiconductor-based devices in optoelectronics, energy and environmental sustainability
Download or read book Electron and Photon Confinement in Semiconductor Nanostructures written by Benoît Deveaud and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this course was to give an overview of the physics of artificial semiconductor structures confining electrons and photons. It furnishes the background for several applications in particular in the domain of optical devices, lasers, light emitting diodes or photonic crystals. The effects related to the microactivity polaritons, which are mixed electromagnetic radiation-exciton states inside a semiconconductor microactivity are covered. The study of the characteristics of such states shows strong relations with the domain of cavity quantum electrodynamics and thus with the investigation of some fundamental theoretical concepts.
Download or read book Handbook of Self Assembled Semiconductor Nanostructures for Novel Devices in Photonics and Electronics written by Mohamed Henini and published by Elsevier Science. This book was released on 2008 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, Leo Esaki (1973 Nobel Laureate) and Ray Tsu from IBM, USA, proposed research on “man-made crystals” using a semiconductor superlattice (a semiconductor structure comprising several alternating ultra-thin layers of semiconductor materials with different properties). This invention was perhaps the first proposal to advocate the engineering of a new semiconductor material, and triggered a wide spectrum of experimental and theoretical investigations. However, the study of what are now called low dimensional structures (LDS) began in the late 1970's when sufficiently thin epitaxial layers were first produced following developments in the technology of epitaxial growth of semiconductors, mainly pioneered in industrial laboratories for device purposes. The LDS are materials structures whose dimensions are comparable with inter-atomic distances in solids (i.e. nanometre, nm). Their electronic properties are significantly different from the same material in bulk form. These properties are changed by quantum effects. At the inception of their investigation it was already clear that such structures were of great scientific interest and excitement and their novel properties caused by quantum effects offered potential for application in new devices. Moreover these complex LDS offer device engineers new design opportunities for tailor-made new generation electronic devices. The LDS could be considered as a new branch of condensed matter physics because of the large variety of possible structures and the changes in the physical processes. One of the promising fabrication methods to produce and study structures with a dimension less than two such as quantum wires and quantum dots, in order to realise novel devices that make use of low-dimensional confinement effects, is self-organisation. Self-assembled nanostructured materials offer a number of advantages over conventional material technologies in a wide-range of sectors. Clearly, future research work on self-assembled nanostructures will connect diverse areas of material science, physics, chemistry, electronics and optoelectronics. Key Features: - Contributors are world leaders in the field - Brings together all the factors which are essential in self-organisation of quantum nanostructures - Reviews the current status of research and development in self-organised nanostructured materials - Provides a ready source of information on a wide range of topics - Useful to any scientist who is involved in nanotechnology - Excellent starting point for workers entering the field - Serves as an excellent reference manual
Download or read book Quantum Optics with Semiconductor Nanostructures written by Frank Jahnke and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An understanding of the interaction between light and matter on a quantum level is of fundamental interest and has many applications in optical technologies. The quantum nature of the interaction has recently attracted great attention for applications of semiconductor nanostructures in quantum information processing. Quantum optics with semiconductor nanostructures is a key guide to the theory, experimental realisation, and future potential of semiconductor nanostructures in the exploration of quantum optics.Part one provides a comprehensive overview of single quantum dot systems, beginning with a look at resonance fluorescence emission. Quantum optics with single quantum dots in photonic crystal and micro cavities are explored in detail, before part two goes on to review nanolasers with quantum dot emitters. Light-matter interaction in semiconductor nanostructures, including photon statistics and photoluminescence, is the focus of part three, whilst part four explores all-solid-state quantum optics, crystal nanobeam cavities and quantum-dot microcavity systems. Finally, part five investigates ultrafast phenomena, including femtosecond quantum optics and coherent optoelectronics with quantum dots.With its distinguished editor and international team of expert contributors, Quantum optics with semiconductor nanostructures is an essential guide for all those involved with the research, development, manufacture and use of semiconductors nanodevices, lasers and optical components, as well as scientists, researchers and students. A key guide to the theory, experimental realisation, and future potential of semiconductor nanostructures in the exploration of quantum optics Chapters provide a comprehensive overview of single quantum dot systems, nanolasers with quantum dot emitters, and light-matter interaction in semiconductor nanostructures Explores all-solid-state quantum optics, crystal nanobeam cavities and quantum-dot microcavity systems, and investigates ultrafast phenomena
Download or read book Optics of Semiconductors and Their Nanostructures written by Heinz Kalt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-12 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the field of semiconductor optics has been pushed to several extremes. The size of semiconductor structures has shrunk to dimensions of a few nanometers, the semiconductor-light interaction is studied on timescales as fast as a few femtoseconds, and transport properties on a length scale far below the wavelength of light have been revealed. These advances were driven by rapid improvements in both semiconductor and optical technologies and were further facilitated by progress in the theoretical description of optical excitations in semiconductors. This book, written by leading experts in the field, provides an up-to-date introduction to the optics of semiconductors and their nanostructures so as to help the reader understand these exciting new developments. It also discusses recently established applications, such as blue-light emitters, as well as the quest for future applications in areas such as spintronics, quantum information processing, and third-generation solar cells.
Download or read book Coherent Semiconductor Optics written by Torsten Meier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-02-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the basic theoretical concepts required for the analysis of the optical response of semiconductor systems in the coherent regime. It is the most instructive textbook on the theory and optical effects of semiconductors. The entire presentation is based on a one-dimensional tight-binding model. Starting with discrete-level systems, increasing complexity is added gradually to the model by including band-structure and many-particle interaction. Various linear and nonlinear optical spectra and temporal phenomena are studied. The analysis of many-body effects in nonlinear optical phenomena covers a major part of the book.
Download or read book The Physics of Semiconductors written by Marius Grundmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings the reader to an overview of the subject as a whole and to the point where they can specialize and enter supervised laboratory research Provides a balance between aspects of solid state and semiconductor physics and the concepts of various semiconductor devices and their applications in electric and photonic devices. Proffers explicit formulas (with the help of Mathematica) for as many as possible results, going beyond current textbook equations, thus makes easier to understand for undergrads.
Download or read book Second Order Non linear Optics of Silicon and Silicon Nanostructures written by O. A. Aktsipetrov and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory and practice of the non-linear optics of silicon are inextricably linked with a variety of areas of solid state physics, particularly semiconductor physics. However, the current literature linking these fields is scattered across various sources and is lacking in depth. Second Order Non-linear Optics of Silicon and Silicon Nanostructures describes the physical properties of silicon as they apply to non-linear optics while also covering details of the physics of semiconductors. The book contains six chapters that focus on: The physical properties and linear optics of silicon Basic theoretical concepts of reflected second harmonics (RSH) The authors’ theory of the generation of RSH at the non-linear medium–linear medium interface An analytical review of work on the non-linear optics of silicon The results of non-linear optical studies of silicon nanostructures A theory of photoinduced electronic processes in semiconductors and their influence on RSH generation The book also includes methodological problems and a significant amount of reference data. It not only reflects the current state of research but also provides a single, thorough source of introductory information for those who are becoming familiar with non-linear optics. Second Order Non-linear Optics of Silicon and Silicon Nanostructures is a valuable contribution to the fields of non-linear optics, semiconductor physics, and microelectronics, as well as a useful resource for a wide range of readers, from undergraduates to researchers.
Download or read book Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanocrystals written by S. V. Gaponenko and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the optical properties of low-dimensional semiconductor structures, a hot research area - for graduate students and researchers.
Download or read book Ultrafast Dynamical Processes in Semiconductors written by Kong-Thon Tsen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-02-25 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international team of experts describes the optical and electronic properties of semiconductors and semiconductor nanostructures at picosecond and femtosecond time scales. The contributions cover the latest research on a wide range of topics. In particular they include novel experimental techniques for studying and characterizing nanostructure materials. The contributions are written in a tutorial way so that not only researchers in the field but also researchers and graduate students outside the field can benefit.
Download or read book Inelastic Light Scattering of Semiconductor Nanostructures written by Christian Schüller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-09-13 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of semiconductor nanostructures is of enormous and still-growing research interest. On one hand, they are already realized in mass products such as high-electron-mobility field-effect transistors and quantum-well lasers. On the other hand, they allow, in specially tailored systems, the investigation of fundamental properties such as many-particle interactions of electrons in reduced dimensions. This book bridges the gap between general semiconductor textbooks and research articles.
