Single Quantum Dots: Fundamentals, Applications, and New Concepts

✍ Scribed by Pierre M. Petroff (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 355
• Series: Topics in Applied Physics 90
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book reviews recent advances in the exciting and rapid growing field of semiconductor quantum dots by contributions from some of the most prominent researchers in the field. Special focus is given to the optical and electronic properties of single quantum dots due to their potential applications in devices operating with single electrons and/or single photons. This includes quantum dots in electric and magnetic fields, cavity-quantum electrodynamics, nonclassical light generation, and coherent optical control of excitons. Single Quantum Dots also addresses various growth techniques as well as potential device applications such as quantum dot lasers, and new concepts like a single-photon source, and a single quantum dot laser.

✦ Table of Contents

Epitaxial Growth and Electronic Structure of Self-Assembled Quantum Dots....Pages 1-24
Electronic Properties of Self-Assembled Quantum Dots....Pages 25-92
Exciton Complexes in Self-Assembled In(Ga)As/GaAs Quantum Dots....Pages 93-146
Optical Spectroscopy on Epitaxially Grown II--VI Single Quantum Dots....Pages 147-184
Quantum-Dot Lasers....Pages 185-236
Dephasing Processes and Carrier Dynamics in (In,Ga)As Quantum Dots....Pages 237-268
Solid-State Cavity-Quantum Electrodynamics with Self-Assembled Quantum Dots....Pages 269-314
Nonclassical Light from Single Semiconductor Quantum Dots....Pages 315-347

✦ Subjects

Laser Technology, Photonics;Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation;Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices