16th International Conference on Electron Dynamics in Semiconductors, Optoelectronics and Nanostructures 2009 (EDISON 16)

Journal of Physics: Conference Series Volume 193

Montpellier, France 24-28 August 2009

Editors: Luca Varani Gérald Bastard

ISBN: 978-1-61738-283-3

Christophe Palermo

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NONEQUILIBRIUM CARRIER TRANSPORT IN BULK MATERIALS, HETEROSTRUCTURES AND NANOSTRUCTURES Space-Charge-Effect-Induced Large Magnetoresistance in Silicon .................................................................................. 1 M P Delmo, S Kasai, K Kobayashi, T Ono

Electrothermal Monte Carlo Validation of a Hydrodynamic Model for Sub-Micron Silicon Devices ........................... 5 O Muscato, V Di Stefano

Hydrodynamic Modelling of Electron Transport in Submicron Hg0.8Cd0.2Te Diodes ..................................................... 9 M Daoudi, A Belghachi, C Palermo, H Marinchio, L Varani

Time Dependent Transport in 1D Micro- and Nanostructures: Solving the Boltzmann and Wigner– Boltzmann Equations .......................................................................................................................................................... 13 W Magnus, F Brosens, B Sorée

Electron Transport Properties of Gallium Nitride for Microscopic Power Device Modelling...................................... 17 B Benbakhti, M Rousseau, A Soltani, J-C De Jaeger

Alternating-Current and Direct-Current Electrical Transport Properties of Diamond Diodes with Diamond Surfaces of the Different Morphology ............................................................................................................... 21 A M Rodrigues

Analysis of the Resonant Tunneling Diode with the Stepped Pre-Barrier ...................................................................... 25 Roman Yatskiv, Jan Voves

Quasi-Ballistic Electron Transport through Silicon Nanocrystals .................................................................................. 29 Nobuya Mori, Hideki Minari, Shigeyasu Uno, Hiroshi Mizuta, Nobuyuki Koshida

Green Function Treatment of Electronic Transport in Narrow Rough Semiconductor Conduction Channels ............................................................................................................................................................................... 33 Pierre N Martin, Umberto Ravaioli

Prediction of Reduced Thermal Conductivity in Nano-Engineered Rough Semiconductor Nanowires ...................... 37 Pierre N Martin, Zlatan Aksamija, Eric Pop, Umberto Ravaioli

Controlled Breaking of Phase Symmetry in a "Which-Path?" Interferometer ............................................................. 41 Vadim I Puller, Yigal Meir

Percolation Transport in an AlGaN/GaN Heterostructure.............................................................................................. 45 N Sawaki, X X Han, Y Honda, M Yamaguchi

Quantum Maximum Entropy Principle and the Moments of the Generalized Wigner Function................................. 49 M Trovato, L Reggiani

Experimental Study of Transport in InAs Quantum Hot Electron Transistor .............................................................. 53 Thibaut Daoud, Guilhem Boissier, Jan Devenson, Alexei N Baranov, Roland Teissier

Electrical Excitation of Surface Phonon-Polaritons in III-V Heterostructures: A Monte Carlo Study ....................... 57 F Mazzamuto, J Saint-Martin, A Bournel, P Dollfus, A Archambault, F Marquier, J-J Greffet

Experimental Demonstration of Resonant-Tunneling-Diode Operation Beyond Quasibound-StateLifetime Limit ...................................................................................................................................................................... 61 M N Feiginov, D Roy Chowdhury

Study of the High-Frequency Performance of III-As Nanojunctions Using a Three-Dimensional Ensemble Monte Carlo Model ............................................................................................................................................ 65 Toufik Sadi, Jean-Luc Thobel

Monte Carlo Analysis of Gunn Oscillations in Narrow and Wide Band-Gap Asymmetric Nanodiodes...................... 69 T González, I Iñiguez-De-La-Torre, D Pardo, J Mateos, A M Song

Conductance Crossovers in Coherent Surface Transport on Y Nanojunctions ............................................................. 73 Andrea Bertoni, Giampaolo Cuoghi, Giulio Ferrari, Guido Goldoni

Mechanisms of a Negative Differential Conductivity in a Short-Channel In0.52Ga0.48As/In0.53Al0.47As HEMT................................................................................................................................................................................... 77 M L Orlov

RF Doubling and Rectification in Three-Terminal Junctions: Experimental Characterization and Monte Carlo Analysis .......................................................................................................................................................... 81 I Iñiguez-De-La-Torre, T González, D Pardo, C Gardès, Y Roelens, S Bollaert, A Curutchet, C Gaquiere, J Mateos

Monte Carlo Simulation of Charge Transport in Amorphous Chalcogenides ............................................................... 85 E Piccinini, F Buscemi, M Rudan, R Brunetti, C Jacoboni

Current Oscillations Excited by Optical Phonon Emission in GaN n+nn+ Diodes: Monte Carlo Simulations........................................................................................................................................................................... 89 A Iñiguez-De-La-Torre, T González, J Mateos

Energy Relaxation in IR Laser Excited Hg1-xCdxTe ......................................................................................................... 93 A K Storebo, T Brudevoll, O Olsen, O C Norum, M Breivik

Evidence of Non-Local Impact Ionization in CNT and HgCdTe..................................................................................... 97 J S Marsland, A G Atanu

Carrier Transport in THz Quantum Cascade Lasers: Are Green's Functions Necessary? ........................................ 101 A Mátyás, T Kubis, P Lugli, C Jirauschek

Electronic and Magnetic States in Core Multishell Nanowires: Edge Localization, Landau Levels and Aharonov-Bohm Oscillations............................................................................................................................................ 105 G Ferrari, G Cuoghi, A Bertoni, G Goldoni, E Molinari

Monte Carlo Investigation of Electron Gas Cooling in Electric Field in N-Type InSb Crystals................................. 109 S Ašmontas, R Raguotis

Novel Planar Gunn Diode Operating in Fundamental Mode up to 158 GHz ............................................................... 113 Chong Li, A Khalid, N Pilgrim, M C Holland, G Dunn, D S R Cumming

Transport Measurements on InAs/GaSb Superlattice Structures for Mid-Infrared Photodiode ............................... 117 C Cervera, J P Perez, R Chaghi, J B Rodriguez, P Christol, L Konczewicz, S Contreras

Electron Drift Velocity in High Electric Fields in Zincblende, Wurtzite and Rocksalt GaN ...................................... 121 R Brazis, D Nausewicz, R Raguotis

Tunnelling Transport in Nonuniform Barriers as a Possible Way for Current Control............................................. 125 V A Kozlov, V A Verbus

Anharmonic Decay of Non-Equilibrium Intervalley Phonons in Silicon ...................................................................... 129 Zlatan Aksamija, Umberto Ravaioli

Kinetics of Shallow Acceptor Impact Ionization and Recombination in p-Ge ............................................................. 133 M S Kagan, I V Altukhov, V P Sinis, S K Paprotskiy

Monte Carlo Simulation of Ballistic Transport in High-Mobility Channels ................................................................ 137 G Sabatini, H Marinchio, C Palermo, L Varani, T Daoud, R Teissier, H Rodilla, T González, J Mateos

Modeling Self-Heating Effects in Nanoscale SOI Devices .............................................................................................. 141 D Vasileska, S M Goodnick, K Raleva

Monte Carlo Simulation of High-Energy Transport of Electrons and Holes in Bulk SiGeC Alloys .......................... 145 M Michaillat, D Rideau, F Aniel, C Tavernier, H Jaouen

A Determinist Method Solving the Wigner Transport Equation for Quantum Transport in Silicon Nanowires........................................................................................................................................................................... 149 Sylvain Barraud, Emmanuelle Sarrazin

Marshmallowing of Nanopillar Arrays by Field Emission............................................................................................. 153 J Park, H Qin, H-S Kim, R H Blick

Figures of Merit in High-Frequency and High-Power GaN HEMTs ............................................................................ 156 F A Marino, N Faralli, D K Ferry, S M Goodnick, M Saraniti

Avalanche Dynamics in Silicon Avalanche Single- and Few-Photon Sensitive Photodiode......................................... 160 J Blazej, I Prochazka

Dynamics of Electron Entanglement in Semiconductor Nanostructures ...................................................................... 163 Paolo Bordone

Lateral Electron Tunnelling Spectroscopy in Etched GaAs/AlGaAs-Based Nanostructures...................................... 169 S F Fischer, J L Deborde, U Kunze, D Reuter, A D Wieck

COHERENT ELECTRON DYNAMICS IN SOLID STATE SYSTEMS FOR QUANTUM PROCESSING AND COMMUNICATIONS Dynamics of Electron-Electron Entanglement in Pulsed Sinusoidal Potentials ........................................................... 175 F Buscemi, P Bordone, A Bertoni

Non-Equilibrium Dephasing in Ballistic Interferometers .............................................................................................. 179 Y Yamauchi, M Hashisaka, S Nakamura, K Chida, S Kasai, T Ono, R Leturcq, K Ensslin, D C Driscoll, A C Gossard, K Kobayashi

Dynamical Polarization Effect of Nuclear Spin Bath Dragged by Electron Spin Resonance in Double Quantum Dot Integrated with Micro-Magnet................................................................................................................. 183 T Obata, M Pioro-Ladrière, Y Tokura, R Brunner, Y-S Shin, T Kubo, K Yoshida, T Taniyama, S Tarucha

Perturbative vs Non-Perturbative Impurity Scattering in a Narrow Si Nanowire GAA Transistor: A NEGF Study ....................................................................................................................................................................... 187 Antonio Martinez, Andrew R Brown, Natalia Seoane, Asen Asenov

Multiple Microwave Resonance Interaction in Silicon Single-Electron Transistors.................................................... 191 Morteza Erfani, David G Hasko, Wan Sik Cho, Jung-Bum Choi

An User-Friendly Software Tool for the Solution of the Time-Dependent Schrödinger and GrossPitaevskii Equations .......................................................................................................................................................... 195 Thomas Serafini, Andrea Bertoni

Nonequilibrium Dynamics and Coherent Control of BCS Superconductors Driven by Ultrashort THz Pulses .................................................................................................................................................................................. 199 T Papenkort, T Kuhn, V M Axt

Dynamics of Photo-Excited Carriers in Anatase TiO2 Thin Film Investigated by Pump-Probe Method .................. 203 Taki Hashimoto, Keisuke Takahashi, Hideyuki Kunugita, Hiroshi Sakama, Kazuhiro Ema

First Observation of E2 Coherent Phonon Modes in CdS Using a Noncollinear Optical Parametric Amplifier ............................................................................................................................................................................ 207 Daisuke Suzuki, Hideyuki Kunugita, Kazuhiro Ema

Photo-Excited Carrier Relaxation Dynamics in InN Films............................................................................................ 211 Masafumi Hashimoto, Kazuya Fukunaga, Kazuaki Kouyama, Jumpei Kamimura, Hideyuki Kunugita, Kazuhiro Ema, Akihiko Kikuchi, Katsumi Kishino

Optical Properties of InxAl1-xN Film and Nanocolumns ................................................................................................. 215 Masafumi Hashimoto, Jumpei Kamimura, Hideyuki Kunugita, Kazuhiro Ema, Akihiko Kikuchi, Katsumi Kishino

Anderson Localization of Light in a Random Configuration of Nanocolumns ............................................................ 219 Yuta Inose, Tomi Ohtsuki, Hideyuki Kunugita, Kazuhiro Ema, Masaru Sakai, Akihiko Kikuchi, Katsumi Kishino

Second Harmonic Generation from Photonic Structured GaN Nanowalls................................................................... 223 Takahiro Soya, Yuta Inose, Hideyuki Kunugita, Kazuhiro Ema, Kouji Yamano, Akihiko Kikuchi, Katsumi Kishino

Femtosecond Electro-Optic Effect in (Cd,Mn)Te Single Crystals ................................................................................. 227 A S Cross, D Kochanowska, M Witkowska-Baran, A Mycielski, M Mikulics, D Grützmacher, Roman Sobolewski

Femtosecond Optical Spectroscopy Studies of High-Pressure-Grown (Al,Ga)N Single Crystals ............................... 231 J Zhang, A Belousov, J Karpinski, B Batlogg, Roman Sobolewski

INTERSUBBAND TRANSITIONS AND QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS Light Absorption Related to Hole Transitions in Quantum Dots and Impurity Centers in Quantum Wells Under External Excitation...................................................................................................................................... 235 D A Firsov, L E Vorobjev, V A Shalygin, A N Sofronov, V Yu Panevin, M A Vasil'eva, M Ya Vinnichenko, P Thumrongsilapa, S N Danilov, A E Zhukov, A I Yakimov, A V Dvurechenskii

How Fast Electrons and Photons Mix: Sub-Cycle Switching of Intersubband Cavity Polaritons .............................. 239 R Huber, A A Anappara, G Günter, A Sell, G Biasiol, L Sorba, A Tredicucci, S De Liberato, C Ciuti, A Leitenstorfer

Monolithic Photonic Crystal Quantum-Cascade Laser.................................................................................................. 243 A Benz, C H Deutsch, G Fasching, K Unterrainer, A M Andrews, P Klang, W Schrenk, G Strasser

Importance of Coulomb Interactions in Bound-To-Continuum THz Quantum Cascade Lasers ............................... 247 C Jirauschek, A Matyas, P Lugli

How Periodic are Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers? ............................................................................................... 251 T Kubis, P Vogl

Terahertz Wide Range Tunable Cyclotron Resonance p-Ge Laser .............................................................................. 255 O A Klimenko, Yu A Mityagin, S A Savinov, V N Murzin, N V Dyakonova, P Solignac, W Knap

A New Aluminum-Free Material System for Intersubband Emitters and Detectors................................................... 259 Aaron Maxwell Andrews, Michele Nobile, Hermann Detz, Pavel Klang, Elvis Mujagić, Werner Schrenk, Gottfried Strasser

TERAHERTZ PHENOMENA IN SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS AND DEVICES THz Photoresponse and Magnetotransport of Detectors Made of HgCdTe/HgTe Quantum Well Structures ........................................................................................................................................................................... 263 F Gouider, M Bugár, J Könemann, Yu B Vasilyev, C Brüne, H Buhmann, G Nachtwei

Analytical Model for the Terahertz Current Noise in Nanometric Schottky-Barrier Diodes and Heterostructure Barrier Varactors .................................................................................................................................. 267 F Z Mahi, A Helmaoui, L Varani, P Shiktorov, E Starikov, V Gruzhinskis

Spectral Narrowing of Terahertz Emission From Super-Grating Dual-Gate Plasmon-Resonant HighElectron Mobility Transistors........................................................................................................................................... 271 A El Moutaouakil, T Watanabe, C Haibo, T Komori, T Nishimura, T Suemitsu, T Otsuji

Monte Carlo Simulation of THz Radiation Detection in GaAs n+ nn+ Diodes with Inhomogeneously Doped n-Region.................................................................................................................................................................. 275 V Gružinskis, E Starikov, P Shiktorov, S Ašmontas

3D-Integration of a Log Spiral Antenna Onto a Dual Grating-Gate Plasmon-Resonant Terahertz Emitter for High-Directivity Radiation ........................................................................................................................... 279 H-C Kang, T Nishimura, T Komori, T Mori, N Watanabe, T Asano, T Otsuji

Enhancement of Terahertz Radiation by CW Infrared Laser Excitation in a Doubly Interdigitated Grating Gates Transistors................................................................................................................................................. 283 Y M Meziani, T Nishimura, H Tsuda, T Suemitsu, W Knap, V V Popov, T Otsuji

Tunable Room Temperature Terahertz Sources Based on Two Dimensional Plasma Instability in GaN HEMTs ...................................................................................................................................................................... 287 A El Fatimy, T Suemitsu, T Otsuji, N Dyakonova, W Knap, Y M Meziani, S Vandenbrouk, K Madjour, D Théron, Ch Gaquiere, P Prystawko, C Skierbiszewski

Fano Profile in the Intersubband Terahertz Response of Photoexcited GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Wells ................... 291 M Wagner, D Golde, D Stehr, H Schneider, M Helm, A M Andrews, T Roch, G Strasser, M Kira, S W Koch

Terahertz Detection in a Double-Grating-Gate Heterotransistor.................................................................................. 295 D Coquillat, S Nadar, F Teppe, N Dyakonova, S Boubanga-Tombet, W Knap, T Nishimura, Y M Meziani, T Otsuji, V V Popov, G M Tsymbalov

Room-Temperature Terahertz Spectroscopy of Optically Excited Plasma Waves in HEMTs ................................... 299 P Nouvel, H Marinchio, J Torres, C Palermo, L Chusseau, L Varani, P Shiktorov, E Starikov, V Gružinskis

Electronic, Optical and Thermal Excitation of Plasma Waves in HEMTs: A Theoretical Study............................... 303 Hugues Marinchio, Giulio Sabatini, Christophe Palermo, Jérémi Torres, Laurent Chusseau, Luca Varani, Pavel Shiktorov, Evguenij Starikov, Viktor Gružinskis

Terahertz GaAs/AlGaAs- and InGaAs-Based Bow-Tie Diodes: Spectral Features and Applications for Imaging............................................................................................................................................................................... 307 I Kašalynas, D Seliuta, V Tamošiūnas, J Macutkevič, S Balakauskas, G Valušis, K Köhler

Nonlinear Carrier Transport within Gigahertz-Terahertz Frequencies in Spatially Non-Uniform InSb ................. 311 I Kašalynas, L Subačius, D Seliuta, G Valušis

Towards Wannier-Stark THz Superlattice Laser........................................................................................................... 315 A A Andronov, E P Dodin, D I Zinchenko, Yu N Nozdrin

Detection Mechanisms of Terahertz Radiation in a Short Gate In0.3Ga0.7As/In0.53Al0.47As Field Effect Transistor ........................................................................................................................................................................... 319 M L Orlov, L K Orlov

One-Dimensional Approximation of Poisson Equation for the Description of Multi-Gate Conducting Channels of FETs and HEMTs......................................................................................................................................... 323 P Shiktorov, E Starikov, V Gružinskis, H Marinchio, L Varani

Terahertz Tunable Detection in Self-Switching Diodes Based on High Mobility Semiconductors: InGaAs, InAs and InSb ..................................................................................................................................................... 327 I Iñiguez-De-La-Torre, H Rodilla, J Mateos, D Pardo, A M Song, T González

Plasma Waves Terahertz Detection by Field Effect Transistor in Quantinzing Magnetic Fields............................... 331 S Boubanga-Tombet, F Teppe, W Knap, K Karpierz, J Lusakowski, M Grynberg, M I Dyakonov, J Lyonnet, J M Peiris

Terahertz Study of Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in InGaN/GaN Multiple Quantum Wells ........................................ 335 H P Porte, D Turchinovich, D G Cooke, P Uhd Jepsen

Capture and Release of Carriers in InGaAs/GaAs Quantum Dots ............................................................................... 339 D Turchinovich, H P Porte, N Daghestani, K G Wilcox, E U Rafailov, P Uhd Jepsen

Advanced THz Laser Performance of Shallow Donors in Axially Stressed Silicon Crystal........................................ 343 V N Shastin, R Kh Zhukavin, K A Kovalevsky, V V Tsyplenkov, S G Pavlov, H-W Hübers

Relaxation of THz Impurity Photoconductivity in GaAs/InGaAsP and Ge/GeSi Quantum Well Heterostructures ................................................................................................................................................................ 347 S V Morozov, K V Marem'yanin, D I Kuritsin, S M Sergeev, A V Antonov, L V Gavrilenko, E E Orlova, I V Erofeeva, M S Joludev, V I Gavrilenko

THz Probe Studies of MBE Grown Epitaxial GaAs ....................................................................................................... 351 D Köseoğlu, H H Güllü, H Altan

Miniband Quantum Transport in Semiconductor Nanodevices Under Broadband Illumination .............................. 355 Fabrizio Castellano, Rita C Iotti, Fausto Rossi

On the Geometrical Tunabililty of THz Gunn-Like Oscillations in InGaAs/InAlAs Slot Diodes ............................... 359 S Pérez, J Mateos, D Pardo, T González

Plasmonic Noise in Si and InGaAs Semiconductor Nanolayers..................................................................................... 363 J Pousset, J-F Millithaler, L Reggiani, G Sabatini, C Palermo, L Varani, J Mateos, T González, S Pérez, A Bournel, P Dollfus

Current Transport Modeling and Experimental Study of THz Room Temperature Ballistic Deflection Transistors.......................................................................................................................................................................... 367 Vikas Kaushal, Martin Margala, Qiaoyan Yu, Paul Ampadu, Gregg Guarino, Roman Sobolewski

Transport and Excess Noise in Polyacenes Under Trap Filling Transition .................................................................. 371 C Pennetta, L Reggiani, A Carbone

Preliminary Results of Bench Implementation for the Study of Terahertz Amplification in Gallium Nitride Quantum Wells ..................................................................................................................................................... 375 T Laurent, P Nouvel, J Torres, L Chusseau, C Palermo, L Varani, Y Cordier, J-P Faurie, B Beaumont, E Starikov, P Shiktorov, V Gružinskis

Silicon MOSFETs as Room Temperature Terahertz Detectors .................................................................................... 379 H Videlier, S Nadar, N Dyakonova, M Sakowicz, T Trinh Van Dam, F Teppe, D Coquillat, W Knap, S Denorme, T Skotnicki, J M Peiris, J Lyonnet

Hydrodynamic Study of Terahertz Three-Dimensional Plasma Resonances in InGaAs Diodes ................................ 383 Pierre Ziadé, Ziad Kallassy, Hugues Marinchio, Giulio Sabatini, Christophe Palermo, Luca Varani

Picosecond Electric Pulse Excitation of Three-Branch Ballistic Nanodevices.............................................................. 387 Hiroshi Irie, Roman Sobolewski

SEMICONDUCTOR-BASED SPINTRONICS Intersubband Dynamics of Spin Polarized Carriers....................................................................................................... 391 M Vogel, A Vagov, V M Axt, A Seilmeier, T Kuhn

Study of the O K-Edge XANES of Cobalt-Doped ZnO Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors ........................................ 395 Tongfei Shi, Yuqi Wang, Zhijun Yin, Yunpeng Zhang, Shishen Yan

Spin-Dependent Transport in Armchair Graphene Nanoribbon Structures with Edge Roughness Effects ................................................................................................................................................................................. 399 V Hung Nguyen, V Nam Do, A Bournel, V Lien Nguyen, P Dollfus

Dynamics of a Single Mn Spin in a Quantum Dot: The Role of Magnetic Fields in Faraday and Voigt Geometry ............................................................................................................................................................................ 403 D E Reiter, T Kuhn, V M Axt, P Machnikowski

Transient Current in Spin Blockade Condition .............................................................................................................. 407 Yasuhiro Tokura, Keiji Ono, Seigo Tarucha

Prediction of Giant Intrinsic Spin-Hall Effect in Strained p-GaAs Quantum Wells ................................................... 411 C Schindler, P Vogl

Tunneling Magnetoresistance Dependence on the Temperature in a Ferromagnetic Zener Diode............................ 415 E Comesaña, M Aldegunde, A García-Loureiro

TRANSPORT IN ORGANIC MATERIALS, GRAPHENE AND CARBON NANOTUBES Interface Dipole Formation Between Gamnas and Organic Material........................................................................... 419 Wenjin Chen, Baikui Li, Hongtao He, Jiannong Wang, Hoi Lam Tam, Kok Wai Cheah, Xiancun Cao, Yuqi Wang, Guijun Lian, Guangcheng Xiong

Improvement of Carrier Transport and Luminous Efficiency of Organic Light Emitting Diodes by Introducing a Co-Deposited Active Layer ....................................................................................................................... 423 Naoki Ohtani, Masaya Murata, Keiichiro Kashiwabara, Kazunori Kurata

Detecting Conformational Change by Current Transport in Proteins: The Case of Bacteriorhodopsin Monolayers......................................................................................................................................................................... 427 E Alfinito, L Reggiani

Polaronic Transport in Polysilanes .................................................................................................................................. 431 S Nešpůrek, J Nožár, A Kadashchuk, I I Fishchuk

Magnetic Field Effect on Photocurrent in N,N'-Di(Naphthalene-l-yl)-N,N'-Diphenyl-Benzidine (NPB) ................... 435 B K Li, W J Chen, M K Lam, K W Cheah, J N Wang

New Methods for Enhancing ZT Value of Nanowires .................................................................................................... 439 G R Zhang, Z Zeng

Zener Tunnelling in Graphene Based Semiconductors – the k p Method .................................................................... 443 William Vandenberghe, Bart Sorée, Wim Magnus, Guido Groeseneken

Full-Band and Atomistic Study of Electron-Phonon Interaction in Graphene Nanoribbons ..................................... 447 Tatsuro Kitayama, Hideki Minari, Nobuya Mori

Electron States Near Graphene Edge............................................................................................................................... 451 V A Volkov, I V Zagorodnev

Organic Thin-Film Phototransistors Based on Poly(3-Hexylthiophene)....................................................................... 455 G Scarpa, E Martin, S Locci, B Fabel, P Lugli

Design and Fabrication of Organic Solar Cells Structured via Nanoimprint Lithography ........................................ 459 O Wiedenmann, A Abdellah, G Scarpa, P Lugli

Crossover From Weakly-Disordered Fermi Liquid to Luttinger Liquid in Quasi-1D Nanostructures ..................... 463 V Mitin, A Sergeev, M Bell, J Bird, A Verevkin

Simulation of Transport and 1/f Noise in Carbon Nanotube Films............................................................................... 467 S Soliveres, F Martinez, A Hoffmann, F Pascal

Room Temperature Velocity Saturation in Intrinsic Graphene .................................................................................... 471 R S Shishir, D K Ferry, S M Goodnick

QUANTUM CARRIER DYNAMICS IN ULTRASMALL STRUCTURES, NANOSTRUCTURES AND DEVICES Impurity Induced Current Oscillations in One-Dimensional Conductors.................................................................... 477 S N Artemenko, D S Shapiro, R R Vakhitov, S V Remizov

Wide Frequency Band Detection on Laterally Constricted GaAs Structures having Nanometric Heavily Doped Layers ....................................................................................................................................................... 481 S Ašmontas, V Kazlauskaitė, A Sužiedėlis, J Gradauskas, V Derkach

Generation of Squeezed Phonon States by Optical Excitation of a Quantum Dot ....................................................... 485 D E Reiter, S Sauer, J Huneke, T Papenkort, T Kuhn, A Vagov, V M Axt

Effect of Interface State Trap Density on the Performance of Scaled Surface Channel In0.3Ga0.7As MOSFETs........................................................................................................................................................................... 489 B Benbakhti, J S Ayubi-Moak, K Kalna, A Asenov

Floquet Projections of a Gaussian Wigner Function in a Kronig-Penney Potential .................................................... 493 L Maccari, L Demeio, P Bordone

Monte Carlo Model for the Photoluminescence Kinetics of a Quantum Dot Embedded in a Nanocavity ................. 497 G Tarel, V Savona, A Badolato, M Winger, T Volz, A Imamoglu

A New Method for Coherent Control in a Quantum Dot Ensemble ............................................................................. 501 M Kujiraoka, J Ishi-Hayase, K Akahane, N Yamamoto, K Ema, M Sasaki

Electron Dynamics in Silicon Nanowire Using a Monte-Carlo Method........................................................................ 505 E Sarrazin, S Barraud, A Bournel, F Triozon

Electron-Electron Interaction and Tunnel Density of States At the Fermi Level in High-Density TwoDimensional Electron System ........................................................................................................................................... 509 E N Morozova, I N Kotel'nikov, S E Dizhur, E V Deviatov, V T Dolgopolov

The Characterization of the Hole Transport in Sb Based Strained Quantum Wells ................................................... 513 Zbynek Soban, Jan Voves, Karol Kalna

Theory of Relaxation and Decoherence of Intersublevel Transitions in Semiconductor Quantum Dots ................... 517 T Grange, R Ferreira, G Bastard

Wigner Distribution Function Description of a Multilayered Nanostructure with Magnetic Impurities .................. 521 B J Spisak, M Wołoszyn, P Wójcik, G J Morgan

Tunneling Accross Mesoscopic Hall Bars ........................................................................................................................ 525 C Chaubet, O Couturaud, M El Khalifi, S Bonifacie, D Mailly

Exciton Coherence in Clean Single InP/InAsP/InP Nanowire Quantum Dots Emitting in Infra-Red Measured by Fourier Spectroscopy.................................................................................................................................. 529 H Sasakura, H Kumano, I Suemune, J Motohisa, Y Kobayashi, M Van Kouwen, K Tomioka, T Fukui, N Akopian, V Zwiller

Coulomb Correlations of a Few Body System of Spatially Separated Charges............................................................ 533 Ian Mondragon-Shem, Boris A Rodriguez, Francisco E Lopez

Dicke Model: Entanglement as a Finite Size Effect ........................................................................................................ 537 Oleksandr Tsyplyatyev, Daniel Loss

Microscopic Theory of Energy Dissipation and Decoherence in Open Systems: A Quantum Fermi's Golden Rule........................................................................................................................................................................ 541 D Taj, R C Iotti, F Rossi

Radiative and Phonon-Induced Dephasing in Double Quantum Dots .......................................................................... 547 Paweł Machnikowski Author Index