Basic terms.

Equipment and techniques for time-integrated luminescence measurements.

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Time-resolved luminescence: equipment and kinetic description of processes. Phonons.

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Radiative and non-radiative recombination.

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Bound and free excitons.

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Disordered semiconductors. Stimulated emission.

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Electroluminescence. Low-dimensional structures I: quantum wells.

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Low-dimensional structures II: quantum wires, dots.

Electron-hole plasma and lasing in low dimensional structures.

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