Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Semiconductors and Nanostructures spans a broad range of new techniques and advances.

Features:

• Collects recent developments across a broad range of areas of ultrafast dynamics, exploring new technologies
• Presents each topic in a tutorial manner for maximum clarity and effortless application of the material
• Comprises the work of leading researchers in their respective specialties from around the world
• Includes more than 150 illustrations to elucidate the discussion

Contents

Spin Evolution in a High-Mobility, Two-Diminsional Electron Gas

• Review of Theoretical Ideas on Spin-Dynamics in a 2DEG
• Experimental Investigation of Electron Spin-Dynamics in a 2DEG

High-Amplitude, Ultrashort Strain Solitons in Solids

• Theory of Strain Solitons
• Simulations
• Brillouin-Scattering Experiments

Nonlinear Optical Properties of Artificial Dielectrics in Nano-Scale

• Theoretical Considerations
• Experiments and Results

Optical Properties of Hexagonal and Cubic Gan Self-Assembled Quantum Dots

• Physical Properties of GaN Self-Assembled Quantum Dots
• Growth of Hexagonal and Cubic GaN Self-Assembled Quantum Dots
• Optical Properties of GaN Self-Assembled Quantum Dots
• Time- and Space-Resolved Optical Studies on GaN Self-Assembled Quantum Dots
• Prospects of GaN Self-Assembled Quantum Dots

Ultrafast Non-Equilibrium Electron Dynamics in Metal Nanoparticles

• Optical Properties of Metal Nanoparticles
• Optical Creation of Non-Equilibrium Electrons
• Non-Equilibrium Electron Kinetics
• Electron-Electron Energy Exchanges
• Electron-Lattice Energy Exchanges
• Non-Equilibrium Electron-Lattice Energy Exchanges

Generation and Propagation of Monochromatic Acoustic Phonons in Gallium Arsenide

• Basic Properties of Semiconductor Superlattices
• Experimental Details
• Experimental Results: Introduction
• Demonstrating Phonon Optics: Measuring the Mean Free Path of Terahertz (THz) Phonons
• Other Materials: Gallium Nitride and Its Alloys

Optical Studies of Carrier Dynamics and Non-Equilibrium Optical Phonons in Nitride-Based Semiconductors

• Experimental Approach, Samples, and Experimental Technique
• Experimental Results

Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

• Electromagnetically Induced Transparency: Theory
• Experimental Methods
• EIT via Intervalence Band Coherence
• EIT via Exciton Spin Coherence
• EIT via Biexcitonic Coherence

Index

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