Advances in Solid State Physics 47

The 2007 Spring Meeting of the Arbeitskreis Festkörperphysik was held in Regensburg, Germany, between March 26 and March 30 2007 in conjunction with the 71st Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. This year's meeting was certainly one of the largest physics meetings in Europe.

The present volume 47 of the Advances in Solid State Physics contains the written version of a large number of the invited talks and gives an overview of the present status of solid state physics where low-dimensional systems such as  quantum dots and quantum wires are dominating. The importance of magnetic materials and the present day interest into magnetism is reflected by the large number of contributions to the part dealing with ferromagnetic films and particles. One of the most exciting achievements of the last couple of years is the successful application of electrical contacts and the investigation of a single layer of graphene. This exciting physics is covered in Part IV of this book. Terahertz physics is another rapidly moving field which is presented here by five contributions. Achievements in solid state physics are only rarely possible without a thorough knowledge of material physics. Therefore, the last two parts of this book cover material aspects.

• AFM
• Condensed matter physics
• Ferromagnetic films and particles
• Graphene
• Low-dimensional systems
• PED
• Quantum dots and wires
• STEM
• Solid State Physics
• Terahertz physics

From the reviews:

"This … volume provides a nice overview of the most recent developments in one the most important and active fields of modern physics. … The book is addressed to all scientists at universities and industry who wish to obtain an overview of the latest developments in solid state physics." (Lisa Tongning Li, Optics and Photonics News, March, 2009)

• Abteilung Nanostrukturen Institut für Festkörperphysik, Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

  Rolf Haug

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