Superlattices and Other Heterostructures

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 1 Quantum Wells and Superlattices.
• 2 Crystal Symmetry.
• 2.1 Symmetry Operations, Groups.
• 2.2 Point-Group Classification.
• 2.3 Space Groups.
• 2.4 Group Representations, Characters.
• 2.5 Point-Group Representations.
• 2.6 Spinor Representations.
• 2.7 Representations of Space Groups.
• 2.8 Invariance Under Time Inversion.
• 2.9 Selection Rules.
• 2.10 Determination of Linearly Independent Components of Material Tensors.
• 3 Electron Spectrum in Crystals, Quantum Wells and Superlattices.
• 3.1 The k-p Method.
• 3.2 The Effective-Mass Method; Deformation Potential.
• 3.3 Method of Invariants.
• 3.4 Electron and Hole Spectrum in Diamond- and Zincblende-Type Cubic Crystals.
• 3.5 Electron Spectra of Quantum Wells and Superlattices.
• 3.6 Hole Spectrum in Quantum Wells and Superlattices for Degenerate Bands.
• 3.7 Deformed and Strained Superlattices.
• 3.8 Quantum Wells and Superlattices in a Magnetic Field.
• 3.9 Spectrum of Quantum Wells and Superlattices in an Electric Field.
• 4 Vibrational Spectra of Crystals and Superlattices Electron-Phonon Interaction.
• 4.1 Normal Vibrations: Distribution in Irreducible Representations.
• 4.2 Vibrational Spectra of Superlattices.
• 4.3 Electron-Phonon Interaction.
• 5 Localized Electron States and Excitons in Heterostructures.
• 5.1 Shallow Impurity Centers.
• 5.2 Localized States at Superlattice Defects.
• 5.3 Excitons.
• 5.4 Exchange Splitting of Exciton Levels.
• 6 Interband Optical Transitions.
• 6.1 Optical Superlattices.
• 6.2 Interband Transitions and Dielectric Susceptibility of a Periodic Heterostructure.
• 6.3 Coulomb Interaction Between the Electron and the Hole.
• 6.4 Exciton Polaritons in an Optical Superlattice.
• 6.5 Light Reflection.
• 6.6 Electro-Optical Effects in Interband Transitions.
• 6.7 Magneto-Optical Spectra.
• 7 Intraband Transitions.
• 7.1 Cyclotron Resonance and Effective Electron Mass.
• 7.2 Intersubband Absorption.
• 7.3 Electron-Spin Resonance.
• 7.4 IR Reflection in an Undoped Superlattice.
• 8 Light Scattering.
• 8.1 Theory of Light Scattering in Semiconductors.
• 8.2 Scattering by Intersubband Excitations.
• 8.3 Scattering by Acoustical Phonons with a Folded Dispersion Law.
• 8.4 Scattering by Optical Phonons in Heterostructures.
• 8.5 Acceptor Spin-Flip Raman Scattering.
• 9 Polarized Luminescence in Quantum Wells and Superlattices.
• 9.1 Luminescence as a Tool to Study Electronic Spectra and Kinetic Processes in Two-Dimensional Systems.
• 9.2 Luminescence in the Quantum Hall Regime, Quantum Beats.
• 9.3 Optical Spin Orientation and Alignment of Electron Momenta.
• 9.4 Optical Orientation and Alignment of Excitons.
• 9.5 Polarized Luminescence of Excitons and Impurities in an External Magnetic Field.
• 10 Nonlinear Optics.
• 10.1 Two-Photon Absorption.
• 10.2 Photoreflectance.
• 10.3 Diffraction from a Light-Induced Spatial Grating.
• 10.4 Third-Harmonic Generation.
• 10.5 Linear and Circular Photogalvanic (Photovoltaic) Effects.
• 10.6 Current of Optically Oriented Electrons.
• 10.7 Photon Drag Current.
• References.