Advances in Solid State Physics

High Magnetic Fields in Semiconductor Nanostructures: Spin Effects in Single InAs Quantum Dots....Pages 3-12
On the Way to the II–VI Quantum Dot VCSEL....Pages 13-26
ZnCdSe Quantum Structures — Growth, Optical Properties and Applications....Pages 27-37
Photonic Crystals: Optical Materials for the 21st Century....Pages 41-53
Quantum Optical Effects in Semiconductors....Pages 55-66
Beryllium Chalcogenides: Interface Properties and Potential for Optoelectronic Applications....Pages 67-79
ZnO Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy: Present State and Prospective Application in Optoelectronics and Spin Electronics....Pages 81-91
Electrical Spin Injection from Ferromagnetic Metals into GaAs....Pages 95-106
Probing the Conduction Channels of Gold Atomic-Size Contacts: Proximity Effect and Multiple Andreev Reflections....Pages 107-119
Metal-Insulator Transitions at Surfaces....Pages 121-131
The Role of Contacts in Molecular Electronics....Pages 133-149
Electronic Transport, Spectral Fine Structures, and Atom Clusters in Quasicrystals and Approximants....Pages 151-162
Full Counting Statistics of Mesoscopic Electron Transport....Pages 163-173
Nonequilibrium Transport through a Kondo-dot in a Magnetic Field....Pages 175-185
Electrons, Phonons and Excitons at Semiconductor Surfaces....Pages 189-206
Diffuse Interface Model for Microstructure Evolution....Pages 207-218
Rapidly Produced Thin Films: Laser-Plasma Induced Surface Reactions....Pages 219-231
Nanotechnology — Bottom-up Meets Top-down....Pages 231-240
Local Ordering Processes in Ferroelectric, Glass-like and Modulated phases: An EPR Study....Pages 241-251
Superconductivity and Non-Fermi Liquid Normal State of Itinerant Ferromagnets....Pages 255-266
Infrared Conductivity and Superconducting Energy Gap in MgB 2 ....Pages 267-279
MgB 2 Wires and Tapes: Properties and Potential....Pages 281-292
Electron-Phonon Coupling and Superconductivity in MgB 2 and Related Diborides....Pages 293-305
Self-Organized Quasi-One Dimensional Structures in High-Temperature Superconductors: the Stripe Phase....Pages 307-318
Theory of Superconductivity Due to the Exchange of Spin Fluctuations in Hole- and Electron-Doped Cuprate Superconductors: d -Wave Order Parameter....Pages 319-331
Anomalous Behavior of Insulating Glasses at Ultra-low Temperatures....Pages 335-346
Colloidal Suspensions — The Classical Model System of Soft Condensed Matter Physics....Pages 347-358
Excitable Membranes: Channel Noise, Synchronization, and Stochastic Resonance....Pages 359-370
Birth and Sudden Death of a Granular Cluster....Pages 371-382
Interacting Neural Networks and Cryptography....Pages 383-391
Low Energy Dynamics in Glasses Investigated by Neutron Inelastic Scattering....Pages 393-403
Metallic Magnetism....Pages 407-418
Domain State Model for Exchange Bias: Influence of Structural Defects on Exchange Bias in Co/CoO....Pages 419-431
Itinerant Ferromagnetism and Antiferromagnetism from a Chemical Bonding Perspective....Pages 433-444
Theory of Ferromagnetism in (III, Mn)V Semiconductors....Pages 445-456
Tetrahedral Quantum Magnets in One and Two Dimensions....Pages 457-468
SiGe:C Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors: From Materials Research to Chip Fabrication....Pages 471-482
Transition Edge Sensors for Imaging X-ray Spectrometers....Pages 483-494
Charge Injection in Polymer Light-Emitting Diodes....Pages 495-503
Sensors and the Influence of Process Parameters and Thin Films....Pages 505-513