Luminescence Spectroscopy of Semiconductors

Ivan Pelant was Head of the Department of Chemical Physics at Charles University in Prague from 1990-1993. He has been Researcher at the Institute of Physics at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Prague from 1994 until present and was appointed as Professor of Quantum Optics and Optoelectronics, Charles University in Prague in 2002.Jan Valenta has been Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague since 2004.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Experimental techniques of luminescence spectroscopy ; 3. Kinetic description of luminescence processes ; 4. Phonons and their participation in optical phenomena ; 5. Channels of radiative recombination in semiconductors ; 6. Nonradiative recombination ; 7. Luminescence of excitons ; 8. Highly excited semiconductors ; 9. Luminescence of disordered semiconductors ; 10. Stimulated emission ; 11. Electroluminescence ; 12. Electronic structure and luminescence of low-dimensional semiconductors ; 13. Effects of high excitation in low-dimensional structures ; 14. Stimulated emission and lasing in low-dimensional structures ; 15. Silicon nanophotonics ; 16. Photonic structures ; 17. Spectroscopy of single semiconductor nanocrystals

This book has certainly appeared at the right time. These collected chapters provide a comprehensive overview of both the fundamental physics principles and the experimental techniques, making this book a valuable resource for everyone studying luminescence spectroscopy of semiconductors.