Quantum dots: fundamentals, applications, and frontiers : [proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Quantum Dots: Fundamentals, Applications and Frontiers, Crete, Greece, 20 to 24 July 2003] / edited by Bruce A. Joyce [and others]
Published
Dordrecht ; New York : Springer : Published in cooperation with NATO Public Diplomacy Division, 2005
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Atomistic Processes during Quantum Dot Formation -- Quantum Dots in the InAs/GaAs System: An Overview of their Formation -- First-Principles Study of InAs/GaAs(001) Heteroepitaxy -- Formation of Two-Dimensional Si/Ge Nanostructures Observed by STM -- Diffusion, Nucleation and Growth on Metal Surfaces -- The Stranski ... Krastanov Transition -- The Mechanism of the Stranski ... Krastanov Transition -- Off-lattice KMC Simulations of Stranski-Krastanov-Like Growth -- Temperature Regimes of Strain-Induced InAs Quantum Dot Formation -- Kinetic Modelling of Strained Films: Effects of Wetting and Facetting -- Ge/Si Nanostructures with Quantum Dots grown by Ion-Beam-Assisted 135 Heteroepitaxy -- Self-Assembly of Quantum Dot Arrays -- Lateral Organization of Quantum Dots on a Patterned Substrate -- Some Thermodynamic Aspects of Self-Assembly of Arrays Quantum Dot -- The Search for Materials with Self-Assembling Properties: The Case of 173 Si-based Nanostructures -- Structure and Composition of Quantum Dots -- X-Ray Scattering Methods for the Study of Epitaxial Self-Assembled Quantum Dots -- Carbon-Induced Ge Dots on Si(100): Interplay of Strain and Chemical Effects -- Growth Information Carried by Reflection High-Energy Electron Diffraction -- Electrons and Holes in Quantum Dots -- Efficient Calculation of Electron States in Self-Assembled Quantum Dots: Application to Auger Relaxation -- Quantum Dot Molecules and Chains -- Collective Properties of Electrons and Holes in Coupled Quantum Dots -- Phase Transitions inWigner Molecules -- Fast Control of Quantum States in Quantum Dots: Limits due to Decoherence -- Optical Properties of Quantum Dots -- Real Space Ab Initio Calculations of Excitation Energies in Small Silicon Quantum Dots -- GeSi/Si(001) Structures with Self-Assembled Islands: Growth and Optical Properties -- Quantum Dots in High Electric Fields: Field and Photofield Emission from Ge Nanoclusters on Si(100) -- Optical Emission Behavior of Si Quantum Dots
