Book Description:
Since first developed in the early sixties, silicon chip technology has made vast leaps forward. From a rudimentary circuit with a mere handful of transistors, the chip has evolved into a technological wonder, packing millions of bits of information on a surface no larger that a human thumbnail. And most experts predict that in the near future, we will see chips with over a billion bits. Quantum dots are small devices that contain a tiny droplet of free electrons. They are fabricated in semiconductor materials and have typical dimensions ranging from nanometres to a few microns. The size and shape of these structures and therefore the number of electrons they contain can be precisely controlled; a quantum dot can have anything from a single electron to a collection of several thousands. The physics of quantum dots shows many parallels with the behaviour of naturally occurring quantum systems in atomic and nuclear physics. As in an atom, the energy levels in a quantum dot become quantized due to the confinement of electrons. Unlike atoms however, quantum dots can be easily connected to electrodes and are therefore excellent tools for studying atomic-like properties. This new book presents the latest research developments in the world.

Table of Contents:
Preface

Few-Electron Semiconductor Quantum Dots in Magnetic Field: Theory and Methods; pg.1-46
(Orion Ciftja, Dept. of Physics, Prairie View, A & M Univ., Texas)

Investigations of Electronic States in Self-Assembled InAs/GaAs Quantum-Dot Structures; pg.47-107
(Shiwei Lin, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Univ. of Manchester, Manchester, UK, College of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Hainan Univ., Haikou, People's Republic of China)

Chemically Deposited Thin Films of Close Packed Cadmium Selenide Quantum Dots: Photophysics, Optical and Electrical Properties; pg.109-168
(Biljana Pejova, Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Sts. Cyril and Methodius Univ., Skopje, Macedonia)

Numerical Modelling of Semiconductor Quantum Dot Light Emitters for Fiber Optic Communication and Sensing; pg.169-201
(Mariangela Gioannini, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino)

Quantum Dot Technology for Semiconductor Broadband Light Sources; pg.203-242
(C.Y. Ngo and S.F. Yoon, Compound Semiconductor and Quantum Information Group, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore, S.J. Chua, Institute of Materials and Research Engineering, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore)

Quantum Dots in Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Development; pg.243-265
(Ian D. Tomlinson, Michael R. Warnement, Sandra J. Rosenthal, Dept. of Chemistry, Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN)

Strain Relief and Nucleation Mechanisms of InN Quantum Dots; pg.267-298
(J.G. Lozano, A.M. Sanchez, R. Garcia, Dept. de Ciencia de los Materiales e Ingenieria Metalurgica y Quimica Inorganica, Univ. de Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain, S. Ruffenach, O. Briot, Group d'Etudes des Semiconducteurs, Univ. Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, D. Gonzalez, Dept. de Ciencia de los Materiales e Ingenieria Metalurgica y Quimica Inorganica, Univ. de Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain)

Electronic Structure and Physical Properties of Semiconductor Quantum Dots; pg.299-329
(Xiu-Wen Zhang, Yuan-Hui Zhu, Jian-Bai Xia, State Key Laboratory for Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)

Ge Nanoclusters in GeO2 Films: Synthesis, Structural Researchers and Optical Properties; pg.331-370
(V.A. Volodin, Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, Novosibirsk State Univ., Novosibirsk, Russia)

Model for the Coherent Optical Manipulation of a Single Spin State in a Charged Quantum Dot; pg.371-392
(Gabriela M. Slavcheva, Univ. of Surrey, UK)

Sub-Diffraction Quantum Dot Waveguides; pg.393-412
(Chia-Jean Wang and Lih Y. Lin, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, Washington)

Three-Dimensional Imagings of the Intracellular Localization of mRNA and its Transcript using Nanocrystal (Quantum Dot) and Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy Techniques; pg.413-426
(Akira Matsuno, Dept. of Neurosurgery, Teikyo Univ. of Chiba Medical Center, Chiba, Japan, Akiko Mizutani, Dept. of Pathology, Tokai Univ. School of Medicine, Boseidai, Isehara City, Kanagawa, Japan, Susumu Takekoshi, Dept. of Pathology, Tokai Univ. School of Medicine, Boseidai, Isehara City, Kanagawa, Japan, R. Yoshiyuki Osamura, Dept. of Pathology, Tokai Univ. School of Medicine, Boseidai, Isehara City, Kanagawa, Japan, et al.)

Unified Description of Resonance and Decay Phenomena in Quantum Dots; pg.427-491
(Ingrid Rotter, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, Almas F. Sadreev, Kirensky Institute of Physics, Krasnoyarsk, Russia)

Theoretical Study on Quantum Dots using Effective-Mass Envelope Function Theory; pg.493-544
(Shu-Shen Li, Jian-Bai Xia, National Laboratory for Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China)

Transmission through Quantum Dots with Variable Shape. Bound States in the Continuum; pg.545-575
(Almas F. Sadreev, Evgeny N. Bulgakov, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Evgeny N. Bulgakov, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Konstantin N. Pichugin, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Ingrid Rotter, Maxi-Planck-Institut Physik, Dresden, Germany, Tatyana V. Babushkina, Siberian Federal Univ., Krasnoyarsk, Russia)

Optical Properties of Quantum Dots: Possible Control of the Impurity Absorption Spectra and Factor of Geometric Form; pg.577-622
(V.D. Krevchik, M.B. Semenov, Penza State Univ. of Russia, Physics Dept., Institute of Basic Research, Fl., R.V. Zaitsev, Penza State Pedagogical Univ. of Russia, Physics Dept.)

Post-Growth Energy Bandgap Tuning of InAs/InGaAs/InP Quantum Dot Structures: Intermixing of Quantum Dot Structures; pg.623-649
(Tang Xiaohong, Yin Zongyou, Photonics Research Center, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore)

Application of Quantum Dots in Organic Memory Devices: A Brief Overview; pg.651-668
(Kaushik Mallick, Advanced Materials Division, Mintek, Randburg, South Africa, Michael J. Witcomb, Electron Microscope Unit, Univ. of Witwatersrand, South Africa)

Index