Advances in Solid State Physics

Quantum Dots.- High Magnetic Fields in Semiconductor Nanostructures: Spin Effects in Single InAs Quantum Dots.- On the Way to the II-VI Quantum Dot VCSEL.- ZnCdSe Quantum Structures - Growth, Optical Properties and Applications.- Optics.- Photonic Crystals: Optical Materials for the 21st Century.- Quantum Optical Effects in Semiconductors.- Beryllium Chalcogenides: Interface Properties and Potential for Optoelectronic Applications.- ZnO Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy: Present State and Prospective Application in Optoelectronics and Spin Electronics.- Electron and Spin Transport.- Electrical Spin Injection from Ferromagnetic Metals into GaAs.- Probing the Conduction Channels of Gold Atomic-Size Contacts: Proximity Effect and Multiple Andreev Reflections.- Metal-Insulator Transitions at Surfaces.- The Role of Contacts in Molecular Electronics.- Electronic Transport, Spectral Fine Structures, and Atom Clusters in Quasicrystals and Approximants.- Full Counting Statistics of Mesoscopic Electron Transport.- Nonequilibrium Transport through a Kondo-dot in a Magnetic Field.- Thin Films and Surfaces.- Electrons, Phonons and Excitons at Semiconductor Surfaces.- Diffuse Interface Model for Microstructure Evolution.- Rapidly Produced Thin Films: Laser-Plasma Induced Surface Reactions.- Nanotechnology - Bottom-up Meets Top-down.- Local Ordering Processes in Ferroelectric, Glass-like and Modulated phases: An EPR Study.- Superconducting Systems.- Superconductivity and Non-Fermi Liquid Normal State of Itinerant Ferromagnets.- Infrared Conductivity and Superconducting Energy Gap in MgB2.- MgB2 Wires and Tapes: Properties and Potential.- Electron-Phonon Coupling and Superconductivity in MgB2 and Related Diborides.- Self-Organized Quasi-One Dimensional Structures inHigh-Temperature Superconductors: the Stripe Phase.- Theory of Superconductivity Due to the Exchange of Spin Fluctuations in Hole- and Electron-Doped Cuprate Superconductors: d-Wave Order Parameter.- Disorder Systems and Soft Matter.- Anomalous Behavior of Insulating Glasses at Ultra-low Temperatures.- Colloidal Suspensions - The Classical Model System of Soft Condensed Matter Physics.- Excitable Membranes: Channel Noise, Synchronization, and Stochastic Resonance.- Birth and Sudden Death of a Granular Cluster.- Interacting Neural Networks and Cryptography.- Low Energy Dynamics in Glasses Investigated by Neutron Inelastic Scattering.- Magnetism.- Metallic Magnetism.- Domain State Model for Exchange Bias: Influence of Structural Defects on Exchange Bias in Co/CoO.- Itinerant Ferromagnetism and Antiferromagnetism from a Chemical Bonding Perspective.- Theory of Ferromagnetism in (III, Mn)V Semiconductors.- Tetrahedral Quantum Magnets in One and Two Dimensions.- Applications.- SiGe:C Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors: From Materials Research to Chip Fabrication.- Transition Edge Sensors for Imaging X-ray Spectrometers.- Charge Injection in Polymer Light-Emitting Diodes.- Sensors and the Influence of Process Parameters and Thin Films.