Preface ........................................................ vii
Editors ......................................................... ix
Contributors .................................................... xi
1 Principles of Photoluminescence ............................... 1
Baldassare Di Bartolo and John Collins
2 AlN: Properties and Applications ............................. 21
Ashok Sedhain, Jingyu Lin, and Hongxing Jiang
3 GaN-Based Optical Devices .................................... 69
Hiroaki Ohta, Steven P. Den Baars, and Shuji Nakamura
4 Photoluminescence of ZnO: Basics and Applications ............ 87
Klaus Thonke and Martin Feneberg
5 Novel Applications of ZnO: Random Lasing and UV Photonic
Light Sources ............................................... 125
Hui Cao and Robert P.H. Chang
6 Luminescent ZnO and MgZnO ................................... 145
Leah Bergman, Jesse Huso, John L. Morrison, and M. Grant
Norton
7 Luminescence Studies of Impurities and Defects in
Ill-Nitride Semiconductors .................................. 169
Bo Monemar and Plamen P. Paskov
8 Narrow-Gap Semiconductors for Infrared Detectors ............ 191
Antoni Rogalski
9 Solid-State Lighting ........................................ 255
Lekhnath Bhusal and Angelo Mascarenhas
10 Fundamentals of the Quantum Confinement Effect .............. 279
Patanjali Kambhampati
11 Selenide and Sulfide Quantum Dots and Nanocrystals:
Optical Properties .......................................... 307
Andrea M. Munro
12 Radiative Cascades in Semiconductor Quantum Dots ............ 321
Eilon Poem and David Gershoni
13 Photoluminescence and Carrier Transport in Nanocrystalline
TiO2 ........................................................ 365
Jeanne L. McHale and Fritz J. Knorr
14 Photoluminescence Spectroscopy of Single Semiconductor
Nanoparticles ............................................... 391
Takashi Tachikawa and Tetsuro Majima
15 Biological Applications of Photoluminescent Semiconductor
Quantum Dots ................................................ 411
Oleg Kovtun and Sandra J. Rosenthal
Index .......................................................... 439
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