Handbook of Luminescent Semiconductor Materials

Leah Bergman is an associate professor of physics at the University of Idaho. She has been a recipient of a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Bergman’s research is in the field of optical materials with a focus on wide-bandgap luminescent semiconductors. Jeanne L. McHale is a professor of chemistry and materials science at Washington State University. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. McHale’s research focuses on spectroscopic studies of semiconductor nanoparticles and chromophore aggregates relevant to solar energy conversion.

Principles of Photoluminescence. AlN: Properties and Applications. GaN-Based Optical Devices. Photoluminescence of ZnO: Basics and Applications. Novel Applications of ZnO: Random Lasing and UV Photonic Light Sources. Luminescent ZnO and MgZnO. Luminescence Studies of Impurities and Defects in III-Nitride Semiconductors. Narrow-Gap Semiconductors for Infrared Detectors. Solid-State Lighting. Fundamentals of the Quantum Confinement Effect. Selenide and Sulfide Quantum Dots and Nanocrystals: Optical Properties. Radiative Cascades in Semiconductor Quantum Dots. Photoluminescence and Carrier Transport in Nanocrystalline TiO2. Photoluminescence Spectroscopy of Single Semiconductor Nanoparticles. Biological Applications of Photoluminescent Semiconductor Quantum Dots. Index.