Superlattices and Other Heterostructures Symmetry and Optical Phenomena

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ivchenko, Eougenious L., Pikus, Grigory (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1995, 1995
Edition:1st ed. 1995
Series:Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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