Introduction to Optical and Optoelectronic Properties of Nanostructures

Get to grips with the fundamental optical and optoelectronic properties of nanostructures. This comprehensive guide makes a wide variety of modern topics accessible, and includes up-to-date material on the optical properties of monolayer crystals, plasmonics, nanophotonics, UV quantum well lasers, and wide bandgap materials and heterostructures. The unified, multidisciplinary approach makes it ideal for those in disciplines spanning nanoscience, physics, materials science, and optical, electrical and mechanical engineering. Building on work first presented in Quantum Heterostructures (Cambridge, 1999), this volume draws on years of research and teaching experience. Rigorous coverage of basic principles makes it an excellent resource for senior undergraduates, and detailed mathematical derivations illuminate concepts for graduate students, researchers and professional engineers. The examples with solutions included in the text and end-of-chapter problems allows the students to use this text to enhance their understanding.

1. Some trends in optoelectronics; 2. Materials for optoelectronic applications; 3. Electrons in quantum structures; 4. Light-semiconductor materials interaction; 5. Optics of quantum structures; 6. Electro-optics and nonlinear optics; 7. Light emitting devices based on interband phototransitions in quantum structure; 8. Devices based on intraband phototransitions in quantum structures and silicon optoelectronics.

Vladimir V. Mitin is a SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and in the Department of Physics at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York.
Viacheslav A. Kochelap is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Head of the Theoretical Physics Department at the Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Mitra Dutta is the Vice Chancellor for Research and a University Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago and holds appointments in the Departments of Electronic and Computer Engineering and Physics at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Michael A. Stroscio is a University Distinguished Professor and Richard and Loan Hill Professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago and also holds appointments in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bioengineering, and Physics.