“This 48th volume of the Advances in Solid State Physics series contains the written version of many talks from the 2008 Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Conference held in Berlin. … includes remarkably lucid research presentations. … Research articles on nanowires, quantum dots, quantum wells and graphene form the core of the book. … I recommend this volume as a good place to start one’s education in low-dimensional systems … even advanced scholars would profit from pure enjoyment of the exposition.” (Christian Brosseau, Optics & Photonics News, September, 2009)
The 2008 Spring Meeting of the Arbeitskreis Festkörperphysik was held in Berlin, Germany, between February 24 and February 29, 2008 in conjunction with the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. The 2008 meeting was the largest physics meeting in Europe and among the largest physics meetings in the world in 2008.
