Optical Phenomena in Semiconductor Structures of Reduced Dimensions : Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on 'Frontiers of Optical Phenomena in Semiconductor Structures of Reduced Dimensions', Yountville, California, USA, July 27-31, 1992

Provides an overview of recent develppments in the field of optical techniques. Topics covered include the fractional quantum Hall effect; the dynamics of electrons on an ultra-short (femtosecond) time scale; and electron behaviour in quantum wires and dots.

Quantum Hall Effect.- Electrons in a Landau Level Near Half-Filling (abstract only).- Electron Spin Resonance and Nuclear Spin Relaxation in GaAs/AlGaAs Heterostructures.- Collective Spin-Flip Excitations in the Quantum Hall Regime.- Coulomb Perturbation by Photoholes of Two-Dimensional Electron Gas InGaAs-Heterojunctions: The Case of Fermi-Edge Singularities (abstract only).- Photoluminescence Studies of Two-Dimensional Electrons in the Extreme Quantum Limit.- Photoluminescence Spectroscopy of Incompressible Electron Liquid States in GaAs.- Optical Spectroscopy in the Regimes of the Integer and Fractional Quantum Hall Effects (extended abstract).- Magneto-Optics of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: Theory.- Photoluminescence in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect.- Exciton Unbinding in the Quasi-Two-Dimensional Electron Gas.- Time-Resolved Spectroscopy.- Ultrafast Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Quantum Confined Semiconductor Heterostructures.- Femtosecond Coherent Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanostructures.- Free Exciton Radiative Recombination in GaAs Quantum Wells.- Time Resolved Four Wave Mixing in GaAs/AlAs Quantum Well Structures.- Spin Dynamics and Dimensionality in Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Structures.- Coherent Optical Phenomena of Quantum Well Excitons in a Magnetic Field.- Coherent Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy of Excitons in Quantum Wells.- Theory of Spin Dynamics of Excitons and Free Carriers in Quantum Wells.- Quantum Wells.- All-Optical Bistability in Asymmetric Quantum Wells.- Magneto-Optics of Shallow Impurities in Superlattices.- Enhanced Linear Electro-Optic Anisotropy in GaAs Quantum Wells.- Spectroscopy on Lateral Superlattices.- Optical Spectroscopy of Quantum Wires and Dots (extended abstract).- Optical Properties of Semiconductor Quantum Well Wires.- Optical Singularities of the Quasi One-Dimensional Electron Gas.- Acceptor Related Photoluminescence as a Probe of Many-Electron States in Semiconductor Nanostructures.- Towards Fully Quantized Optoelectronic Semiconductor Heterostructures: Quantum Boxes or Quantum Microcavities?.- Luminescence Properties of GaAs Quantum Wells, Wires, Dots, and Antidots.- Optical Properties of Strain-Induced Nanometer Scale Quantum Wires.- Spectroscopy of Quantum-Dot Atoms.- Tunneling.- Transmissions Through Barriers and Resonant Tunneling in a Luttinger Liquid.- Novel Electro-Optical Device Structures Based on Quantum Wells (extended abstract).- Excited State Populations of the Quantum Wells of Double Barrier Resonant Tunneling Structures.- Quantum Well Luminescence by Resonant Tunneling Injection of Electrons and Holes.- Nanoscale Structures.- Electronic Excitations and Optical Properties of C60 Molecules.- Optical Properties of Porous Silicon.- Optical Properties of Siloxene and Siloxene Derivates.- Group Photograph.- Participants.- Author Index.