Optical Phenomena in Semiconductor Structures of Reduced Dimensions

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Electrons in a Landau Level Near Half-Filling

   • B. I. Halperin

   Pages 1-1

3. Electron Spin Resonance and Nuclear Spin Relaxation in GaAs/AlgaAs Heterostructures

   • A. Berg, K. Von Klitzing

   Pages 3-11

4. Collective Spin-Flip Excitations in the Quantum Hall Regime

   • C. Kallin, J. P. Longo

   Pages 13-25

5. Coulomb Perturbation by Photoholes of Two-Dimensional Electron Gas Ingaas-Heterojunctions: the Case of Fermi-Edge Singularities

   • W. Chen, M. Fritze, A. V. Nurmikko

   Pages 27-28

6. Photoluminescence Studies of Two-Dimensional Electrons in the Extreme Quantum Limit

   • I. V. Kukushkin, N. J. Pulsford, K. Von Klitzing, R. J. Haug, K. Ploog, H. Buhmann et al.

   Pages 29-44

7. Photoluminescence Spectroscopy of Incompressible Electron Liquid States in GaAs

   • J. F. Ryan, A. J. Turberfield, R. A. Ford, I. N. Harris, C. T. Foxon, J. J. Harris

   Pages 45-56

8. Optical Spectroscopy in the Regimes of the Integer and Fractional Quantum Hall Effects

   • A. Pinczuk, B. S. Dennis, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West

   Pages 57-61

9. Magneto-Optics of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: Theory

   • E. I. Rashba, V. M. Apal’Kov

   Pages 63-77

10. Photoluminescence in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

    • E.H. Rezayi

    Pages 79-89

11. Exciton Unbinding in the Quasi-Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

    • G. E. W Bauer

    Pages 91-99

12. Ultrafast Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Quantum Confined Semiconductor Heterostructures

    • D.S. Chemla

    Pages 101-115

13. Femtosecond Coherent Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanostructures

    • J. Shah

    Pages 117-128

14. Free Exciton Radiative Recombination in GaAs Quantum Wells

    • B. Deveaud, F. Clérot, B. Sermage, C. Dumas, D.S. Katzer

    Pages 129-144

15. Time Resolved Four Wave Mixing in GaAs/AlAs Quantum Well Structures

    • E.O. Göbel, M. Koch, J. Feldmann, G. Von Plessen, T. Meier, A. Schulze et al.

    Pages 145-155

16. Spin Dynamics and Dimensionality in Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Structures

    • D.D. Awschalom, J. F. Smyth, N. Samarth

    Pages 157-171

17. Coherent Optical Phenomena of Quantum Well Excitons in a Magnetic Field

    • I. Bar-Joseph, S. Bar-Ad, O. Carmel, Y. Levinson

    Pages 173-186

18. Coherent Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy of Excitons in Quantum Wells

    • D.G. Steel, S. T. Cundiff, H. Wang

    Pages 187-200

19. Theory of Spin Dynamics of Excitons and Free Carriers in Quantum Wells

    • L. J. Sham

    Pages 201-211

20. All-Optical Bistability in Asymmetric Quantum Wells

    • S. Scandolo, F. Tassone

    Pages 213-220

Remarkable advances in semiconductor growth and processing technologies continue to have a profound impact on condensed-matter physics and to stimulate the invention of novel optoelectronic effects. Intensive research on the behaviors of free carriers has been carried out in the two-dimensional systems of semiconductor heterostructures and in the one and zero-dimensional systems of nanostructures created by the state-of-the-art fabrication methods. These studies have uncovered unexpected quantum mechanical correlations that arise because of the combined effects of strong electron-electron interactions and wave function confinement associated with reduced dimensionality. The investigations of these phenomena are currently at the frontiers of condensed-matter physics. They include areas like the fractional quantum Hall effect, the dynamics of electrons on an ultra short (femtosecond) time scale, electron behavior in quantum wires and dots, and studies of electron tunneling phenomena in ultra small semiconductor structures. Optical techniques have made important contributions to these fields in recent years, but there has been no coherent review of this work until now.
The book provides an overview of these recent developments that will be of interest to semiconductor materials scientists in university, government and industrial laboratories.

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• semiconductor
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• National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada

  David J. Lockwood

• AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA

  Aron Pinczuk

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