Advances in Solid State Physics 48 (eBook)

Nanowires.- From Ordered Arrays of Nanowires to Controlled Solid State Reactions.- Growth Methods and Properties of High Purity III-V Nanowires by Molecular Beam Epitaxy.- Simple Ways to Complex Nanowires and Their Application.- ZnO Nanostructures: Optical Resonators and Lasing.- Waveguiding and Optical Coupling in ZnO Nanowires and Tapered Silica Fibers.- Quantum Dots and Nanoparticles.- Electrically Driven Single Quantum Dot Emitter Operating at Room Temperature.- Silicon Nanoparticles: Excitonic Fine Structure and Oscillator Strength.- Intrinsic Non-Exponential Decay of Time-Resolved Photoluminescence from Semiconductor Quantum Dots.- Electrical Spin Injection into Single InGaAs Quantum Dots.- Spin and Magnetism.- Spintronic and Electro-Mechanical Effects in Single-Molecule Transistors.- Transport in 2DEGs and Graphene: Electron Spin vs. Sublattice Spin.- Spin Dynamics in High-Mobility Two-Dimensional Electron Systems.- Magnetization Dynamics of Coupled Ferromagnetic-Antiferromagnetic Thin Films.- Magnetic and Electronic Properties of Heusler Alloy Films Investigated by X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism.- Coherent Spin Dynamics in Nanostructured Semiconductor-Ferromagnet Hybrids.- Organic Materials and Water.- Coupling of Paramagnetic Biomolecules to Ferromagnetic Surfaces.- Band Alignment in Organic Materials.- Organometallic Nanojunctions Probed by Different Chemistries: Thermo-, Photo-, and Mechano-Chemistry.- When It Helps to Be Purely Hamiltonian: Acceleration of Rare Events and Enhanced Escape Dynamics.- Liquid Polyamorphism and the Anomalous Behavior of Water.- Dynamical Effects, Rectification and Nonlinearities.- Terahertz Detection of Many-Body Signatures in Semiconductor Heterostructures.- Theory of Ultrafast Dynamics of Electron-Phonon Interactions in Two Dimensional Electron Gases: Semiconductor Quantum Wells, Surfaces and Graphene.- Optical Microcavities as Quantum-Chaotic Model Systems: Openness Makes the Difference!.- Nonlinear Transport Properties of Electron Y-Branch Switches.- Rectification Through Entropic Barriers.- Characterization of Materials and Devices.- Microstructure Tomography – An Essential Tool to Understand 3D Microstructures and Degradation Effects.- Profiling of Fiber Texture Gradients by Anomalous X-ray Diffraction.- Film Production Methods in Precision Optics.- Advanced Metrology for Next Generation Transistors.