Physics, Chemistry and Application of Nanostructures: Reviews and Short Notes to NANOMEETING-2001 Minsk, Belarus, 22 - 25 May 2001

Foreword......Page 8 CONTENTS......Page 10 PHYSICS OF NANOSTRUCTURES......Page 20 Discovery and understanding of nanoworld in the XX-th century: main achievements in the mirror of the Nobel Prizes......Page 22 Self-assembled InGaAs quantum dot superlattices......Page 34 Multiexciton dynamics of GaAs single quantum dots......Page 41 Photoreflectance Investigations of low dimensional semiconductor structures......Page 49 Thermoelectric properties of chaotic quantum dots......Page 59 Polarons in quantum wells......Page 67 Self-assembling SiGe dots: nucleation and growth......Page 76 Stress and strain distributions in Ge dots on Si(001) by molecular dynamics simulation......Page 88 Light emission from semiconducting silicide nanostructures in silicon......Page 95 Physics of multiwalled carbon nanotubes......Page 105 Ultra thin C60-based films: molecular arrangement and electronic states......Page 113 On a possibility of the Mott transition in a quantum dot ensemble......Page 121 Screening of extra point charge in a few particle coulomb system......Page 125 A superlattice with resonant states in a unit cell: the band structure and electron transitions......Page 129 Dispersion of guided plasmon-polaritons in a planar Bragg microresonator with two-dimensional electron system......Page 133 Optical properties of fractal Cantor-like multilayer nanostructures......Page 137 I-V curves of short intentionally disordered superlattices in vertical direction......Page 141 Phonon-plasmon interaction in tunneling GaAs/AlAs superlattices: experiment and calculations......Page 145 Negative and persistent positive photoconductivity in p-type Al0.5Ga0.5As / GaAs / Al0.5Ga0.5As......Page 149 Raman and photoluminescence studies of the interface reconstructions in GaAs/AlAs superlattices grown on (311) and (001) surfaces......Page 153 Investigation of surface morphology features and local photoelectric properties of InAs/GaAs quantum dot structures......Page 157 Controllable one-dimensional photonic structures with n-i-p-i crystal layers......Page 161 Influence of electron irradiation on carrier recombination and intradot relaxation in InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot structures......Page 165 Electric field effect on absorption spectra of an ensemble of close-packed CdSe nanocrystals......Page 169 Ge nanocrystals in SiC: ab initio supercell calculations of optical properties......Page 175 Surface energies of Ge and Si and consequences for nanocrystallites......Page 179 2D nanostructures and 3D silicide nanocrystallites at rare-earth metal/Si(111) interfaces: formation mechanism and properties......Page 183 Photoluminescence of the silicon carbide nanoclusters embeded into porous silicon......Page 187 Exciton recombination mechanism in light emitting nanocrystalline silicon......Page 191 Time-resolved photoluminescence of nanocrystalline silicon films obtained by laser ablation......Page 195 Electron-phonon coupling in heavily doped silicon......Page 199 Influence of surface phases on electrical conductivity of silicon surface......Page 203 Morphology and optical properties of Si(111)/CrSi2/Si and Si(111)/Mg2Si/Si systems with self-organized quantum dots......Page 209 Microcavity enhancement of second-harmonic generation and Raman scattering in photonic crystals of porous silicon......Page 213 Structural and electrical characterization of thin crystalline CaF2 layers grown by MBE on Si(111)......Page 217 Switching effect in lead phthalocyanine nanostructure......Page 221 Photoreflectance diagnostics of nanometer dielectric films......Page 225 Nanostructured TiO2:Tb2O3 phosphor fabricated by sol-gel method on porous anodic alumina......Page 229 Three-dimensional photonic band gap structures doped with Tb3+ ions......Page 233 Europium photoluminescence in sol-gel derived titania xerogel on Porous Anodic Alumina......Page 240 Dynamic observation and structure analysis of nanostructures of Cu on Si(111) by low energy electron microscopy......Page 244 Optical properties of layer-periodic metal nanoparticle systems in the visible......Page 254 Conductance quantization in magnetic and nonmagnetic metallic nanowires......Page 258 Conductivity of two-dimensional chromium and iron ordered surface phases on Si(111)......Page 262 Effect of the symmetry on the properties of superconductor/normal metal nanostructures......Page 266 CHEMISTRY OF NANOSTRUCTURES......Page 272 Self-assembling alkali nanowires at semiconductor surfaces......Page 274 Relaxation processes in self-assembled nanoscale photosynthetic models......Page 282 Electronic processes in nanocomposite films......Page 292 Size-control of small metal clusters and nanoparticles in zeolites: silver and copper in mordenites with variable SiO2/Al2O3 molar ratio......Page 300 Formation of ultradisperse bimetallic particles by redox processes in aqueous solutions......Page 306 Polyelectrolyte micro- and nanocapsules as microcages for chemical reactions in restricted volumes......Page 310 Employment of the layer-by-layer technique for the formation of polymer-core TiO2-shell particles and TiO2 hollow spheres......Page 314 Observation of single molecule diffusion in micro- and nanodroplets of polymers on surfaces......Page 318 Chemically grown II-VI semiconductor quantum dots for optoelectronic and photonic applications......Page 323 Fast electrochemical impedance spectroscopy for nanochemistry and nanophysics......Page 327 Kinetics of tip induced oxidation by scanning probe microscope......Page 332 Features of luminescent semiconductor nanowire array formation by electrodeposition into porous alumina......Page 336 Structural, electrical and gas sensing properties of copper phthalocyanine nanoparticles in polystyrene......Page 340 NANOTECHNOLOGY......Page 346 Micro- and nanostructures: preparation and applications......Page 348 Massively parallel atomic lines on silicon carbide......Page 359 Formation of silicon and germanium nanostructures using ultrathin SiO2 films......Page 372 High temperature superconducting artificial superlattices: technology and perspectives......Page 383 Semi-spherical SiGe/Si-nanostructures grown by MBE with in situ ion-beam assistance......Page 391 Molecular beam epitaxial growth and photoluminescence studies of InAs self-organized quantum dots on patterned GaAs (001) substrates......Page 395 Production type planetary MOVPE reactors for fabrication of nitride quantum well lasers......Page 400 SPM modification of organic Langmuir-Blodgett films......Page 405 Advancing magnetic force microscopy......Page 409 Microporous xerogels in mesoporous anodic alumina......Page 412 Technology of pillar microstructure formation with anodic oxides......Page 418 New materials and nanostructures for organic electroluminescent devices......Page 422 Cadmium selenide nanocrystals inside plastic microspheres: a quantum dot in a photonic dot structure with unusual optical properties......Page 427 Porous silicon as a material for enhancement of electron field emission......Page 431 On use of Bessel light beams in nanotechnologies......Page 436 Computer simulation of gas-phase plasma chemistry and silicon ion cluster formation during PECVD......Page 443 Development and application of nanostructured metallized fiber materials in microwave absorbers......Page 447 NANOSTRUCTURE BASED DEVICES......Page 450 Carrier transport and electroluminescence in Si/CaF2 superlattices......Page 452 Reverse biased porous silicon light emitting diodes for optoelectronics......Page 460 Energy transfer and lasing in InGaN/GaN multiple quantum well heterostructures......Page 469 A new multipeak resonant tunneling diode for signal processing application......Page 473 A cyclotron resonance quantum Hall effect detector......Page 478 The role of shallow and deep traps in carrier transport across silicon/insulator nanostructures......Page 482 Long term charge relaxation in silicon single electron transistors......Page 485 Intersubband electron scattering rates in one-dimensional Si MOS-structure......Page 489 The potential of B-FeSi2 nanostructures for solar cell applications......Page 492 Resonant tunneling through an array of quantum dots coupled to superconductors under the effect of magnetic field......Page 495 Modeling of the differential conductance of mesoscopic system: theory and simulation......Page 499 Author Index......Page 504 The book contains impressive results obtained in the XX-th century and discussion of next challenges of the XXI-st century in understanding of the nanoworld. The main sections of the book are: (1) Physics of Nanostructures, (2) Chemistry of Nanostructures, (3) Nanotechnology, (4) nanostructure Based Devices.