Optical Properties and Charge Transport

Abstract

The sections in this article are Introduction Optical Properties of Bulk Crystals Band Structure and Electron‐Hole Pair Excitations Dielectric Polarization and Response Function Correlated Electron‐Hole Pairs: Excitons Single‐Particle Versus Pair Excitations Exciton‐Photon Coupling: Polaritons Interband Absorption Spectra Direct versus Indirect Transitions Radiative Recombination Rate Angular Dependence of Interband Transitions Fundamental Gap Spectra at Low Excitation Exciton Screening Systems with Restricted Dimensionality Electronic Confinement Quantum Wells, ‐Wires and ‐Dots Optics of Quantum Confined Systems Microcavities and Photonic Band Gaps Charge Transport and Scattering Processes Momentum and Energy Relaxation of Carriers Phonon Scattering Carrier‐Carrier Scattering Coherent Phenomena Spin Effects Quantum Transport Nonlinear Optics and High Field Transport Nonlinear Dielectric Response Carrier Distributions Far from Equilibrium Carrier Dynamics on Ultrashort Time Scales Conclusion