Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanostructures

I Two-dimensional electron systems.- Near-field spectroscopy of a gated electron gas.- Two-dimensional electron-hole systems in a strong magnetic field.- A Far Infrared Modulated Photoluminescence (FIRM-PL) study of a 2-D electron Gas in GaAs/Al„Gai_XAs Heterojunctions and Quantum Wells.- Magneto-optical properties and potential fluctuations in high mobility 2-D electron gas.- Spectrum shape analysis of magnetoreflectivity and magnetorotation of polarisation plane of light reflected from GaAs/AlGaAs MQW’s in the quantum Hall regime.- Magnetic field induced insulating phase in two-dimensional electron gas in InGaAs/InP with strong disorder.- Optical properties of bound polarons in quantum wells.- Second harmonic generation in asymmetric quantum wells: the role of depolarisation and excitonic-like effects.- Optical absorption and carrier transmission in heterostructures.- Optical investigation of coupled GaAs/A10.3Gap BAs double quantum wells separated by AlAs barriers.- Optical and related properties of the synthetic quasi-two-dimensional semiconductors K2Cd3S4, Rb2Cd3S4 and Cs2Cd3S4.- II Excitons and Polaritons.- Internal transitions of neutral and negatively charged magnetoexcitons in GaAs nanostructures: the importance of symmetry.- Tailoring of spin-dependent excitonic interaction in quantum wells by an electric field.- Exciton condensation.- Coherent response to optical pulses in quantum wells.- High density two-dimensional electron-hole plasmas in quantising magnetic fields.- Recombination dynamics of negatively charged excitons in gated GaAs quantum wells.- Excitons in the two-dimensional hole gas at the Alp 5Ga0 5As/GaAs interface.- Photoreflectance study of GaAs/AlAs single quantum well structures.- Landau level mixing in asymmetric quantum wells.- Microcavities with 3D Optical Confinement.- Spontaneous emission control in InxGa 1 -xAs/GaAs planar microcavities with DBR reflectors.- III Diluted magnetic semiconductors and other II-VI structures.- Ferromagnetic semiconductors and their nanostructures: new opportunities and challenges.- Magnetooptical studies of magnetic ordering in modulation doped quantum well of Cd1-xMnXTe.- Magnetooptical properties of graded quantum well structures made of diluted magnetic semiconductors.- Dynamic self-polarisation of magnetic impurity spins under optical pumping by unpolarised light in semiconductors.- Coherent spin dynamics in diluted-magnetic quantum wells.- Non-magnetic magnetic polaron.- Semimagnetic semiconductors in studies of charged excitons.- Far infrared response of CdTe structures on GaAs substrates.- Combined exciton-electron processes in modulation doped quantum well structures.- A new opportunity of probing lateral distortions in quantum wells.- Magneto-reflection in CdMnTe/CdTe multiple quantum wells.- IV Quantum dots.- Optical properties of quantum dots.- The Stark effect and electron-hole wavefunctions in InAs-GaAs self-assembled quantum dots.- Interband optics of charge-tunable quantum dots.- Optical charging of self-assembled InAs quantum dots.- Optical properties of coloidally synthesised II-VI semiconductor nanocrystals.- Photoluminescence from InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots in a high electric field.- Homogeneous linewidth of optical transitions and electronic energy relaxation in quantum dots.- Raman spectroscopy of exciton-acoustic phonon coupling in semiconductor nanocrystals.- Excitons in quantum-dot quantum well structures.- Fine structure of excitons and the Overhauser effect in quantum dots.- List of participants.- Author Index.