This book contains invited review papers and short notes presented at the International Conference on Physics, Chemistry and Application of Nanostructures (Nanomeeting 2003).

This comprehensive volume presents invited reviews and short notes with exciting new results obtained in fabrication study and application of nanostructures, which promise a new generation of electronic and optoelectronic devices. The rapid progress in nanoelectronics and optoelectronics, molecular electronics and spintronics, nanotechnology and quantum processing of information are covered.

This book contains invited review papers and short notes presented at the International Conference on Physics, Chemistry and Application of Nanostructures (Nanomeeting 2003). Contents: Physics of Nanostructures: Si/SiGe Nanostructures: Challenges and Future Perspectives (D Grtzmacher); Spin-Resolved Inverse Photoemission from Layered Magnetic Nanostructures (R Bertacco et al.); Nonlinear Optical Properties of One-Dimensional Photonic Crystals (C Sibilia et al.); Tunable Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals Based on Opal-VO 2 Composites (V G Golubev); Interband Transitions in Si Nanostructures Within Effective Mass Approximation (X Zianni & A G Nassiopoulou); Chemistry of Nanostructures: Nanocluster Superlattices Grown at Solution Surfaces (S Sato et al.); Excitonics of IOCoVII Semiconductors (C S Sunandana); Nanotechnology: Mechanisms of Island Vertical Alignment in Ge/Si(001) Quantum-Dot Multilayers (V Le Thanh); Enhanced Luminescene of Lanthanides from Xerogels in Porous Anodic Alumina (N V Gaponenko); Advanced Scanning Probes as Applied to Self Organized Organic Systems (H Fuchs); Nanostructure Based Devices: InGaN/GaN Quantum Wells: Fabrication, Optical Properties and Application in Light Emitting Devices (G P Yablonskii); Carbon Nanotubes in Microelectronic Applications (F Kreupl et al.); Quantum-Confined Impurities as Single-Atom Quantum Dots: Application to Terahertz Emitters (P Harrison et al.); and other papers. Readership: PhD students, academics, researchers and industrialists in nanotechnology."

This book presents recent advances in studies of light propagation, scattering, emission and absorption in random media. Many natural and biological media vary randomly in time and space. Examples are terrestrial atmosphere and ocean, biological liquids and tissues to name but a few.

This volume investigates the theory of the effect of static electric fields on one-electron states in. nanocylindrical and nanospherical heterolayers and quantized semiconductor films. Homogeneous external electrostatic field for all these structures has been considered as a "universal" modulating factor. For structures with radial symmetry, a study on the influence of radial static field and the electric field of a charged ring on one-electron states is presented. Chapters focusing on homogeneous field effect on low-dimensional excitonic states in the quantized films and quantum wires - in both wide bandgap and narrowband semiconductors - are also included. Other contents include calculations weak, moderate and strong electric fields, quantum-mechanical approximation and perturbation theory, the quasi-classical approximation (WKB method). Readers will benefit from the varied methodological to the subject which gives them a concrete analytical framework to solve problems related to nanoscale semiconductor design. The reference should prove to be useful to academics and professionals working in semiconductor nanoelectronics research and development.

This book presents invited reviews and original short notes of recent results obtained in studies concerning the fabrication and application of nanostructures, which hold great promise for the new generation of electronic and optoelectronic devices.Governing exciting and relatively new topics such as fast-progressing nanoelectronics and optoelectronics, molecular electronics and spintronics, nanophotonics, nanosensorics and nanobiology as well as nanotechnology and quantum processing of information, this book gives readers a more complete understanding of the practical uses of nanotechnology and nanostructures.

This is the fifth set of Handbook of Porphyrin Science.Porphyrins, phthalocyanines and their numerous analogues and derivatives are materials of tremendous importance in chemistry, materials science, physics, biology and medicine. They are the red color in blood (heme) and the green in leaves (chlorophyll); they are also excellent ligands that can coordinate with almost every metal in the Periodic Table. Grounded in natural systems, porphyrins are incredibly versatile and can be modified in many ways; each new modification yields derivatives, demonstrating new chemistry, physics and biology, with a vast array of medicinal and technical applications.As porphyrins are currently employed as platforms for study of theoretical principles and applications in a wide variety of fields, the Handbook of Porphyrin Science represents a timely ongoing series dealing in detail with the synthesis, chemistry, physicochemical and medical properties and applications of polypyrrole macrocycles. Professors Karl Kadish, Kevin Smith and Roger Guilard are internationally recognized experts in the research field of porphyrins, each having his own separate area of expertise in the field. Between them, they have published over 1500 peer-reviewed papers and edited more than three dozen books on diverse topics of porphyrins and phthalocyanines. In assembling the new volumes of this unique handbook, they have selected and attracted the very best scientists in each sub-discipline as contributing authors.This handbook will prove to be a modern authoritative treatise on the subject as it is a collection of up-to-date works by world-renowned experts in the field. Complete with hundreds of figures, tables and structural formulas, and thousands of literature citations, all researchers and graduate students in this field will find the Handbook of Porphyrin Science an essential, major reference source for many years to come.