Advances in solid state physics : 13 tables ; [the 2008 spring meeting of the Arbeitskreis Festkörperphysik was held in Berlin between February 24 and 29, 2008 in conjunction with the 72. Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft

The present volume 48 of the Advances in Solid State Physics contains the written version of a large number of the invited talks of the 2008 Spring Meeting of the DPG section Condensed Matter Physics (Sektion kondensierte Materie der DPG) which was held in Berlin, Germany, and gives a nice overview of the present status of condensed matter physics. Low-dimensional systems are dominating the field and especially nanowires and quantum dots. In recent years one learned how to produce nanowires directly during a growth process. Therefore, a number of articles is related to such nanowires. In nanoparticles and quantum dots, the dimensionality is further reduced and we learn more and more how to produce such systems in a defined way and what effects result from the confinement in all three dimensions. Spin effects and magnetism is another important field of present-day research in solid state physics. The third chapter covers this physics. The growing interest into organic materials and biological systems is reflected in a large chapter of this book with the title Organic Materials and Water. The last chapters of this book cover aspects that range from dynamical effects up to device physics and characterization tools. Front Matter....Pages I-XIV Front Matter....Pages 1-1 From Ordered Arrays of Nanowires to Controlled Solid State Reactions....Pages 3-12 Growth Methods and Properties of High Purity III-V Nanowires by Molecular Beam Epitaxy....Pages 13-26 Simple Ways to Complex Nanowires and Their Application....Pages 27-38 ZnO Nanostructures: Optical Resonators and Lasing....Pages 39-56 Waveguiding and Optical Coupling in ZnO Nanowires and Tapered Silica Fibers....Pages 57-64 Front Matter....Pages 65-65 Electrically Driven Single Quantum Dot Emitter Operating at Room Temperature....Pages 67-78 Silicon Nanoparticles: Excitonic Fine Structure and Oscillator Strength....Pages 79-90 Intrinsic Non-Exponential Decay of Time-Resolved Photoluminescence from Semiconductor Quantum Dots....Pages 91-102 Electrical Spin Injection into Single InGaAs Quantum Dots....Pages 103-114 Front Matter....Pages 115-115 Spintronic and Electro-Mechanical Effects in Single-Molecule Transistors....Pages 117-128 Transport in 2DEGs and Graphene: Electron Spin vs. Sublattice Spin....Pages 129-141 Spin Dynamics in High-Mobility Two-Dimensional Electron Systems....Pages 143-155 Magnetization Dynamics of Coupled Ferromagnetic-Antiferromagnetic Thin Films....Pages 157-170 Magnetic and Electronic Properties of Heusler Alloy Films Investigated by X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism....Pages 171-182 Coherent Spin Dynamics in Nanostructured Semiconductor-Ferromagnet Hybrids....Pages 183-195 Front Matter....Pages 197-197 Coupling of Paramagnetic Biomolecules to Ferromagnetic Surfaces....Pages 199-206 Band Alignment in Organic Materials....Pages 207-218 Organometallic Nanojunctions Probed by Different Chemistries: Thermo-, Photo-, and Mechano-Chemistry....Pages 219-235 When It Helps to Be Purely Hamiltonian: Acceleration of Rare Events and Enhanced Escape Dynamics....Pages 237-248 Liquid Polyamorphism and the Anomalous Behavior of Water....Pages 249-266 Front Matter....Pages 267-267 Terahertz Detection of Many-Body Signatures in Semiconductor Heterostructures....Pages 269-280 Theory of Ultrafast Dynamics of Electron-Phonon Interactions in Two Dimensional Electron Gases: Semiconductor Quantum Wells, Surfaces and Graphene....Pages 281-292 Optical Microcavities as Quantum-Chaotic Model Systems: Openness Makes the Difference!....Pages 293-304 Nonlinear Transport Properties of Electron Y-Branch Switches....Pages 305-316 Rectification Through Entropic Barriers....Pages 317-328 Front Matter....Pages 329-329 Microstructure Tomography – An Essential Tool to Understand 3D Microstructures and Degradation Effects....Pages 331-342 Profiling of Fiber Texture Gradients by Anomalous X-ray Diffraction....Pages 343-352 Film Production Methods in Precision Optics....Pages 353-369 Advanced Metrology for Next Generation Transistors....Pages 371-383 Back Matter....Pages 385-388 V. 45. Part I. Disorder, Soft Matter and Biological Systems Part II. Quantum Transport and Correlations Part III. Superconductivity Part IV. Semiconductors Part V. Materials and Applications v. 46. Part I. Quantum Dots Part II. Molecules and Nanoparticles Part III. Nanowires and 1D Systems Part IV. Optoelectronics Part V. Thin Films and Materials v. 47. Part I. Quantum Dots and Wires Part II. Correlation Effects Part III. Ferromagnetic Films and Particles Part IV. Graphene Part V. THz-Physics Part VI. Defects, Dislocations and Strain Part VII. Materials v. 48. Part I Nanowires Part II. Quantum Dots and Nanoparticles Part III. Spin and Magnetism Part IV. Organic Materials and Water Part V. Dynamical Effects, Rectification and Nonlinearities Part VI. Characterization of Materials and Devices. The 2008 Spring Meeting of the Arbeitskreis Festkoerperphysik 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. 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.