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Confined Electrons and Photons

New Physics and Applications

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Elias Burstein

    1. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

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  2. Claude Weisbuch

    1. Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series B: (NSSB, volume 340)

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Table of contents (49 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Confined Electrons and Photons: A Summary

    1. Confined Electrons and Photons: A Summary

      • Claude Weisbuch, Eli Burstein
      Pages 1-14

  3. Basic Solid State Optics in Bulk and 2D Structures

    1. Dynamics of Optical Excitations in Semiconductors

      • Rainer G. Ulbrich
      Pages 15-56

    2. Optical Transitions, Excitons, and Polaritons in Bulk and Low-Dimensional Semiconductor Structures

      • Lucio Claudio Andreani
      Pages 57-112

    3. Electron States in Biased Heterostructures

      • R. Ferreira, G. Bastard
      Pages 113-160

    4. Phonons and Electron-Phonon Interaction in Low-Dimensional Structures

      • Elisa Molinari
      Pages 161-203

    5. Excitonic Radiative Dynamics in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

      • D. S. Citrin
      Pages 205-223

    6. Superlattices and Quantum Wells in Organic Semiconductors: Excitons and Optical Nonlinearities

      • V. M. Agranovich
      Pages 225-247

    7. Intersubband Transitions in Quantum Wells

      • Jean-Yves Duboz, Philippe Bois, Emmanuel Rosencher
      Pages 249-268

  5. Confined Photons

    1. Atoms in Cavities

      • J. M. Raimond, S. Haroche
      Pages 383-426

    2. Controlling Spontaneous Emission and Optical Microcavities

      • H. Yokoyama, Y. Nambu, T. Kawakami
      Pages 427-466

    3. Spontaneous Emission Control in Semiconductor Microcavities

      • Gunnar Björk, Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Henrich Heitmann
      Pages 467-501

    4. Strong Coupling in Semiconductor Microcavities

      • Theodore B. Norris
      Pages 503-521

    5. Localization of Light in Disordered and Periodic Dielectrics

      • Sajeev John
      Pages 523-584

    6. Photonic Bloch Waves and Photonic Band Gaps

      • Philip St. J. Russell, Timothy A. Birks, F. Dominic Lloyd-Lucas
      Pages 585-633
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The optical properties of semiconductors have played an important role since the identification of semiconductors as "small" bandgap materials in the thinies, due both to their fundamental interest as a class of solids baving specific optical propenies and to their many important applications. On the former aspect we can cite the fundamental edge absorption and its assignment to direct or indirect transitions, many-body effects as revealed by exciton formation and photoconductivity. On the latter aspect, large-scale applications sucb as LEDs and lasers, photovoltaic converters, photodetectors, electro-optics and non-linear optic devices, come to mind. The eighties saw a revitalization of the whole field due to the advent of heterostructures of lower-dimensionality, mainly two-dimensional quantum wells, which through their enhanced photon-matter interaction yielded new devices with unsurpassed performance. Although many of the basic phenomena were evidenced through the seventies, it was this impact on applications which in turn led to such a massive investment in fabrication tools, thanks to which many new structures and materials were studied, yielding funher advances in fundamental physics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

    Elias Burstein

  • Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

    Claude Weisbuch

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