Preface to the Second Edition ................................. vii
Preface to the First Edition ................................... ix
Editor ....................................................... xiii
Contributors ................................................... xv
Chapter 1 "Soft" Chemical Synthesis and Manipulation of
Semiconductor Nanocrystals ........................... 1
Jennifer A. Hollingsworth and Victor I. Klimov
Chapter 2 Electronic Structure in Semiconductor Nanocrystals:
Optical Experiment .................................. 63
David J. Norris
Chapter 3 Fine Structure and Polarization Properties of
Band-Edge Excitons in Semiconductor Nanocrystals .... 97
Alexander L. Efros
Chapter 4 Intraband Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Colloidal
Semiconductor Quantum Dots ......................... 133
Philippe Guyot-Sionnest, Moonsub Shim, and Congjun
Wang
Chapter 5 Multiexciton Phenomena in Semiconductor
Nanocrystals ....................................... 147
Victor I. Klimov
Chapter 6 Optical Dynamics in Single Semiconductor Quantum
Dots ............................................... 215
Ken T. Shimizu and Moungi G. Bawendi
Chapter 7 Electrical Properties of Semiconductor
Nanocrystals ....................................... 235
Neil C. Greenham
Chapter 8 Optical and Tunneling Spectroscopy of
Semiconductor Nanocrystal Quantum Dots ............. 281
Uri Banin and Oded Millo
Chapter 9 Quantum Dots and Quantum Dot Arrays: Synthesis,
Optical Properties, Photogenerated Carrier
Dynamics, Multiple Exciton Generation, and
Applications to Solar Photon Conversion ............ 311
Arthur J. Nozik and Olga I. Mićić
Chapter 10 Potential and Limitations of Luminescent Quantum
Dots in Biology .................................... 369
Hedi Mattoussi
Chapter 11 Colloidal Transition-Metal-Doped Quantum Dots ...... 397
Rémi Beaulac, Stefan T. Ochsenbein, and Daniel
R. Gamelin
Index ......................................................... 455
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