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Morgan & Claypool Publishers Capture and Relaxation in Self-Assembled Semiconductor Quantum Dots The Dot and its Environment 2016 Edition by Robson Ferreira, Gerald Bastard
This is an overview of different models and mechanisms developed to describe the capture and relaxation of carriers in quantum-dot systems. Despite their undisputed importance, the mechanisms leading to population and energy exchanges between a quantum dot and its environment are not yet fully understood. The authors develop a first-order approach to such effects, using elementary quantum mechanics and an introduction to the physics of semiconductors. The book results from a series of lectures given by the authors at the Master's level.