Confined Electrons and Photons

Confined Electrons and Photons: A Summary:.- Basic Solid State Optics in Bulk and 2D Structures.- Dynamics of Optical Excitations in Semiconductors.- Optical Transitions, Excitons and Polaritons in Bulk and Low-Dimensional Semiconductor Structures.- Electron States in Biased Heterostructures.- Phonons and Electron-Phonon Interaction in Low-Dimensional Structures.- Excitonic Radiative Dynamics in Semiconductor Quantum Wells.- Superlattices and Quantum Wells in Organic Semiconductors: Excitons and Optical Non-linearities.- Intersubband Transitions in Quantum Wells.- Confined Electrons in 1D and 0D.- Principles of Electron Solid State Electron Optics.- Atomic-like Spectroscopy of Low Dimensional Electron Systems.- Inelastic Scattering and Thermalization in low-III-V Semiconductor Structures.- Synthesis and Spectroscopy of II-VI Quantum Dots: an Overview.- Prospects of High Efficiency Quantum Boxes obtained by direct epitaxial growth.- Confined Photons.- Atoms in Cavities.- Controlling Spontaneous Emission and Optical Microcavities.- Spontaneous Emission Control in Semiconductor Microcavities.- Strong Coupling in Semiconductor Microcavities.- Localization of Light in Disordered and Periodic Dielectrics.- Photonic Bloch Waves and Photonic Band Gaps.- Light Emission in Photonic Crystal Micro-Cavities.- Special Topics — Applications.- Semiconductor Nanostructure lasers: Fundamentals and Fabrications.- Quantum Wells Optical Switching Devices.- High-efficiency, Narrow Spectrum Resonant Cavity Light Emitting Diodes.- Short Papers (Seminars and Selected Posters).- Spontaneous Emission Control in Planar Structures: Er3+ in Si/SO2 Microcavities.- Vacuum Rabi Splitting in a Semiconductor Microcavity.- Impurity Modes in One-Dimensional Periodic Systems: The Transition from PhotonicBandgaps to Microcavities.- Photonic Bandgap Calculations: Inward and Outward Integral Equations and the KKR method.- Soliton-Polariton Interaction near an Excitonic Resonance in Semiconductors.- Dynamics of Excitons and Electron-Hole Plasma Confined in Semiconductor Nanocrystals.- Coupled-Quantum Wells for Optical Modulation.- In-plane Electro-Optic Effect in a Quantum Well.- Reprinted Papers: Basics.- Aspects of Polaritons.- Interband Optical Transitions in Extremely Anisotropic Semiconductors.- Effect of Retarded Interaction on the Exciton Spectrum in One-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional Crystals.- On the Exciton Luminescence at Low temperatures: Importance of the Polariton Viewpoint.- Spatial and Spectral Features of Polariton Fluorescence.- Reprinted Papers: Confined Electrons.- Studies of Exciton Localization in Quantum-Well Structures by Nonlinear-Optical Techniques.- Excitonic Optical Nonlinearity and Exciton Dynamics in Semiconductor Quantum Dots.- Very Large Optical Nonlinearity of Semiconductor Microcrystallites.- Reprinted Papers: Confined Photons.- Spontaneous Emission Probabilities at Radiofrequencies.- Inhibited Spontaneous Emission.- Inhibited Spontaneous Emission in Solid State Physics and Electronics.- Cavity Q.E.D.- Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics at Optical Frequencies.- Physics and Device Applications of Optical Microcavities.- Optical Processes in Microcavities.- Photon Number Squeezed States in Semiconductor Lasers.- Photonic Bandgap Structures.- Applications of Photonic Band gap Structures.- Contributors.