Seminar content

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