Optical Phenomena in Semiconductor Structures of Reduced Dimensions, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993 NATO Science Series E: Series, Vol. 248

Remarkable advances in semiconductor growth and processing technologies continue to have a profound impact on condensed-matter physics and to stimulate the invention of novel optoelectronic effects. Intensive research on the behaviors of free carriers has been carried out in the two-dimensional systems of semiconductor heterostructures and in the one and zero-dimensional systems of nanostructures created by the state-of-the-art fabrication methods. These studies have uncovered unexpected quantum mechanical correlations that arise because of the combined effects of strong electron-electron interactions and wave function confinement associated with reduced dimensionality. The investigations of these phenomena are currently at the frontiers of condensed-matter physics. They include areas like the fractional quantum Hall effect, the dynamics of electrons on an ultra short (femtosecond) time scale, electron behavior in quantum wires and dots, and studies of electron tunneling phenomena in ultra small semiconductor structures. Optical techniques have made important contributions to these fields in recent years, but there has been no coherent review of this work until now.
The book provides an overview of these recent developments that will be of interest to semiconductor materials scientists in university, government and industrial laboratories.

Quantum Hall Effect.- Electrons in a Landau Level Near Half-Filling (abstract only).- Electron Spin Resonance and Nuclear Spin Relaxation in GaAs/AlGaAs Heterostructures.- Collective Spin-Flip Excitations in the Quantum Hall Regime.- Coulomb Perturbation by Photoholes of Two-Dimensional Electron Gas InGaAs-Heterojunctions: The Case of Fermi-Edge Singularities (abstract only).- Photoluminescence Studies of Two-Dimensional Electrons in the Extreme Quantum Limit.- Photoluminescence Spectroscopy of Incompressible Electron Liquid States in GaAs.- Optical Spectroscopy in the Regimes of the Integer and Fractional Quantum Hall Effects (extended abstract).- Magneto-Optics of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: Theory.- Photoluminescence in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect.- Exciton Unbinding in the Quasi-Two-Dimensional Electron Gas.- Time-Resolved Spectroscopy.- Ultrafast Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Quantum Confined Semiconductor Heterostructures.- Femtosecond Coherent Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanostructures.- Free Exciton Radiative Recombination in GaAs Quantum Wells.- Time Resolved Four Wave Mixing in GaAs/AlAs Quantum Well Structures.- Spin Dynamics and Dimensionality in Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Structures.- Coherent Optical Phenomena of Quantum Well Excitons in a Magnetic Field.- Coherent Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy of Excitons in Quantum Wells.- Theory of Spin Dynamics of Excitons and Free Carriers in Quantum Wells.- Quantum Wells.- All-Optical Bistability in Asymmetric Quantum Wells.- Magneto-Optics of Shallow Impurities in Superlattices.- Enhanced Linear Electro-Optic Anisotropy in GaAs Quantum Wells.- Spectroscopy on Lateral Superlattices.- Optical Spectroscopy of Quantum Wires and Dots (extended abstract).- Optical Properties of Semiconductor Quantum Well Wires.- Optical Singularities of the Quasi One-Dimensional Electron Gas.- Acceptor Related Photoluminescence as a Probe of Many-Electron States in Semiconductor Nanostructures.- Towards Fully Quantized Optoelectronic Semiconductor Heterostructures: Quantum Boxes or Quantum Microcavities?.- Luminescence Properties of GaAs Quantum Wells, Wires, Dots, and Antidots.- Optical Properties of Strain-Induced Nanometer Scale Quantum Wires.- Spectroscopy of Quantum-Dot Atoms.- Tunneling.- Transmissions Through Barriers and Resonant Tunneling in a Luttinger Liquid.- Novel Electro-Optical Device Structures Based on Quantum Wells (extended abstract).- Excited State Populations of the Quantum Wells of Double Barrier Resonant Tunneling Structures.- Quantum Well Luminescence by Resonant Tunneling Injection of Electrons and Holes.- Nanoscale Structures.- Electronic Excitations and Optical Properties of C60 Molecules.- Optical Properties of Porous Silicon.- Optical Properties of Siloxene and Siloxene Derivates.- Group Photograph.- Participants.- Author Index.