Quantum Dots: Fundamentals, Applications, and Frontiers

Preface. Atomistic Processes during Quantum Dot Formation. Quantum Dots in the InAs/GaAs System: An Overview of their Formation; B.A. Joyce and D.D. Vvedensky. First-Principles Study of InAsIGaAs(OO1) Heteroepitaxy; E. Penev and P. Kratzer. Formation of Two-Dimensional Si/Ge Nanostructures Observed by STM; B. Voigtlander. Diffusion, Nucleation and Growth on Metal Surfaces; O. Biham et al. The Stranski—Krastanov Transition. The Mechanism of the Stranski—Krastanow Transition; A.G. Cullis et al. Off-lattice KMC Simulations of Stranski-Krastanov-Like Growth; M. Biehl and F. Much. Temperature Regimes of Strain-Induced InAs Quantum Dot Formation; C. Heyn and A. Bolz. Kinetic Modelling of Strained Films: Effects of Wetting and Facetting; D. Kandel and H.R. Eisenberg. Ge/Si Nanostructures with Quantum Dots grown by Ion-Beam-Assisted 135 Heteroepitaxy; A.V. Dvurechenskii et al. Self-Assembly of Quantum Dot Arrays. Lateral Organization of Quantum Dots on a Patterned Substrate; C. Priester. Some Thermodynamic Aspects of Self-Assembly of Arrays of Quantum Dots; J.E. Prieto and I. Markov. The Search for Materials with Self-Assembling Properties: The Case of Si-based Nanostructures; I. Goldfarb. Structure and Composition of Quantum Dots. X-Ray Scattering Methods for the Study of Epitaxial Self-Assembled Quantum Dots; J. Stangi et al. Carbon-Induced Ge Dots on Si(100): Interplay of Strain and Chemical Effects; G. Hadjisavvas et al. Growth Information Carried by Reflection High-Energy Electron Diffraction; A. Nemcsics. Electrons and Holes in Quantum Dots. Efficient Calculation of Electron States in Self-Assembled Quantum Dots: Application to Auger Relaxation; D. Chaney et al. Quantum Dot Molecules and Chains; W. Jaskólski et al. Collective Properties of Electrons and Holes in Coupled Quantum Dots; G. Goldoni et al. Phase Transitions in Wigner Molecules; J. Adamowski et al. Fast Control of Quantum States in Quantum Dots: Limits due to Decoherence; L. Jacak et al. OpticalProperties of Quantum Dots. Real Space Ab Initio Calculations of Excitation Energies in Small Silicon Quantum Dots; A.D. Zdetsis et al. GeSi/Si(001 Structures with Self-Assembled Islands: Growth and Optical Properties; N.V. Vostokov et al. Quantum Dots in High Electric Fields: Field and Photofield Emission from Ge Nanoclusters on Si(100); A.A. Dadykin et al. Optical Emission Behavior of Si Quantum Dots; X. Zianni and A.G. Nassiopoulou. Strain-Driven Phenomena upon Overgrowth of Quantum Dots: Activated Spinodal Decomposition and Defect Reduction; M.V. Maximov and N.N. Ledentsov.