Advances in Solid State Physics, Vol. 37

This volume contains the invited papers of the Spring meeting of the Arbeitskreis Festkörperphysik of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, which has been held in Münster in 1997. The meeting has been attended by roughly 4000 participants from all areas of solid state physics. This book covers the current status of the fileds and shows the excitement which has been felt by the speakers when presenting their results Silicon wafer for the Gigabit era....Pages 1-14 Macroporous silicon: Physics and applications....Pages 15-23 Si 1-y C y and Si 1-x-y Ge x C y alloy layers on Si substrate....Pages 25-42 Beryllium-containing II–VI compounds: Properties and applications....Pages 43-66 White light emitting diodes....Pages 67-78 Acoustic phonon spectroscopy with superconductor tunnel junctions of low-energy defect excitations in semiconductors....Pages 79-98 Ab initio lattice dynamics: Methods, results, and applications....Pages 99-124 Resonant optical spectroscopy of semiconductor microstructures....Pages 125-149 Fano resonances in the optical absorption of low-dimensional semiconductors....Pages 151-167 Ultrafast oscillations in the time-resolved emission of a resonantly excited semiconductor microcavity....Pages 169-190 Ultrashort pulse propagation and excitonic nonlinearities in semiconductor microcavities....Pages 191-206 Ultrafast switching of surface emitting semiconductor microlasers....Pages 207-226 Nonlinear semiconductor microcavity reflectance and photoluminescence from normal-mode coupling to lasing....Pages 227-243 Hanle-oscillations in the stimulated emission of microcavity laser....Pages 245-255 Ultrafast dynamics of the surface plasmonin gold nanoparticles....Pages 257-273 Indirect exchange coupled magnetic multilayers....Pages 275-300 This volume contains the invited papers of the Spring meeting of the Arbeitskreis Festkörperphysik of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, which has been held in Münster in 1997. The meeting has been attended by roughly 4000 participants from all areas of solid state physics. This book covers the current status of the fileds and shows the excitement which has been felt by the speakers when presenting their results