CourseSeminar content

* Basic terms. Equipment and techniques for time-integrated luminescence measurements.
* Time-resolved luminescence: equipment and kinetic description of processes. Phonons.
* Radiative and non-radiative recombination. Free excitons.
* Bound excitons. Electron-hole liquid and plasma.
* Disordered semiconductors. Stimulated emission.
* Electroluminescence. Low-dimensional structures I: quantum wells.
* Low-dimensional structures II: quantum wires, dots. Electron-hole plasma and lasing.
* Silicon nanophotonics and photonic structures. Single-dot spectroscopy.