Superlattices and Other Heterostructures

1 Quantum Wells and Superlattices.- 2 Crystal Symmetry.- 2.1 Symmetry Operations, Groups.- 2.2 Point-Group Classification.- 2.3 Space Groups.- 2.4 Group Representations, Characters.- 2.5 Point-Group Representations.- 2.6 Spinor Representations.- 2.7 Representations of Space Groups.- 2.8Invariance Under Time Inversion.- 2.9 Selection Rules.- 2.10 Determination of Linearly Independent Components of Material Tensors.- 3 Electron Spectrum in Crystals, Quantum Wells and Superlattices.- 3.1 The k-p Method.- 3.2 The Effective-Mass Method; Deformation Potential.- 3.3 Method of Invariants.- 3.4 Electron and Hole Spectrum in Diamond-and Zincblende-Type Cubic Crystals.- 3.5 Electron Spectra of Quantum Wells and Superlattices.- 3.6 Hole Spectrum in Quantum Wells and Superlattices for Degenerate Bands.- 3.7 Deformed and Strained Superlattices.- 3.8 Quantum Wells and Superlattices in a Magnetic Field.- 3.9 Spectrum of Quantum Wells and Superlattices in an Electric Field.- 4 Vibrational Spectra of Crystals and Superlattices Electron-Phonon Interaction.- 4.1 Normal Vibrations: Distribution in Irreducible Representations.- 4.2 Vibrational Spectra of Superlattices.- 4.3 Electron-Phonon Interaction.- 5 Localized Electron States and Excitons in Heterostructures.- 5.1 Shallow Impurity Centers.- 5.2 Localized States at Superlattice Defects.- 5.3 Excitons.- 5.4 Exchange Splitting of Exciton Levels.- 6 Interband Optical Transitions.- 6.1 Optical Superlattices.- 6.2 Interband Transitions and Dielectric Susceptibility of a Periodic Heterostructure.- 6.3 Coulomb Interaction Between the Electron and the Hole.- 6.4 Exciton Polaritons in an Optical Superlattice.- 6.5 Light Reflection.- 6.6 Electro-Optical Effects in Interband Transitions.- 6.7 Magneto-Optical Spectra.- 7 ntraband Transitions.- 7.1 Cyclotron Resonance and Effective Electron Mass.- 7.2 Intersubband Absorption.- 7.3 Electron-Spin Resonance.- 7.4 IR Reflection in an Undoped Superlattice.- 8 Light Scattering.- 8.1 Theory of Light