The unprecedented increase of the power conversion efficiency of metal‐halide perovskite
solar cells has significantly outpaced the understanding of their fundamental properties. One …

The tailoring of the physical properties of semiconductor nanomaterials by strain has been
gaining increasing attention over the last years for a wide range of applications such as …

Lead halide perovskites have emerged as promising new semiconductor materials for high-
efficiency photovoltaics, light-emitting applications and quantum optical technologies. Their …

As a consequence of degeneracies arising from crystal symmetries, it is possible for electron
states at band-edges ('valleys') to have additional spin-like quantum numbers,,,,,. An …

Revealing the crystal structure of lead halide perovskite nanocrystals is essential for the
optimization of stability of these emerging materials in applications such as solar cells …

The updated and enlarged new edition of this book provides an introduction to and an
overview of semiconductor optics from the IR through the visible to the UV. It includes …

The fine structure of excitons is studied by magnetophotoluminescence spectroscopy of
single self-assembled In (Ga) As/(Al) GaAs quantum dots. Both strength and orientation of …

We measure a dephasing time of several hundred picoseconds at low temperature in the
ground-state transition of strongly confined InGaAs quantum dots, using a highly sensitive …

Quantum dots or rings are artificial nanometre-sized clusters that confine electrons in all
three directions. They can be fabricated in a semiconductor system by embedding an island …

All‐inorganic lead‐halide perovskite (LHP)(CsPbX3, X= Cl, Br, I) quantum dots (QDs) have
emerged as a competitive platform for classical light‐emitting devices (in the weak light …