Advances in Solid State Physics 47

Quantum Dots and Wires.- Emission Characteristics, Photon Statistics and Coherence Properties of high-? Semiconductor Micropillar Lasers.- Optical Microtube Ring Cavities.- Wide-Bandgap Quantum Dot Based Microcavity VCSEL Structures.- Momentum Space Wave Functions in InAs Quantum Dots Mapped by Capacitance Voltage Spectroscopy.- Coupling Phenomena in Dual Electron Waveguide Structures.- Correlation Effects.- Electronic Correlations in Electron Transfer Systems.- Criticality and Correlations in Cold Atomic Gases.- Ferromagnetic Films and Particles.- Magnetic Anisotropy and Magnetization Switching in Ferromagnetic GaMnAs.- Highly Spin-Polarized Tunneling in Fully Epitaxial Magnetic Tunnel Junctions with a Co-Based Full-Heusler Alloy Thin Film and a MgO Barrier.- Structural and Magnetic Properties of Transition Metal Nanoparticles from First Principles.- First-Principles Study of Ferromagnetic Heusler Alloys: An Overview.- Graphene.- Dirac Particles in Epitaxial Graphene Films Grown on SiC.- Photoemission Studies of Graphene on SiC: Growth, Interface, and Electronic Structure.- Raman Imaging and Electronic Properties of Graphene.- THz-Physics.- Interaction of Semiconductor Laser Dynamics with THz Radiation.- Ultrafast THz Spectroscopy of Excitons in Multi-Component Carrier Gases.- Terahertz Near-Field Microscopy.- Interaction of THz Radiation with Semiconductors: Microscopic Theory and Experiments.- Nonlinear Terahertz and Midinfrared Response of n-Type GaAs.- Defects, Dislocations and Strain.- Effect of Hydrogen and Grain Boundaries on Dislocation Nucleation and Multiplication Examined with a NI-AFM.- Tuning the Strain in LaCoO3 Thin Films by the Heteroepitaxial Growth on Single Crystal Substrates.- Atomic Migration Phenomena in Intermetallics with High SuperstructureStability.- Material Science with Positrons: From Doppler Spectroscopy to Failure Prediction.- X-Ray Diffraction Residual Stress Analysis: One of the Few Advanced Physical Measuring Techniques That Have Established Themselves for Routine Application in Industry.- Piezoelectric Graded Materials - Preparation and Characterization.- Materials.- 59Co, 23Na, and 1H NMR Studies of Double-Layer Hydrated Superconductors NaxCoO2 · yH2O.

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