Advances in Solid State Physics 46

Quantum Dots.- Single Photons from Single Quantum Dots -- New Light for Quantum Information Processing.- Quantum-Dot Spin Qubit and Hyperfine Interaction.- Counting Statistics of Single Electron Transport in a Semiconductor Quantum Dot.- Size-Tunable Exchange Interaction in InAs/GaAs Quantum Dots.- Quantum Dots in Planar Cavities -- Single and Entangled Photon Sources.- Molecules and Nanoparticles.- Periodic Structure Formation in Polymer Films with Embedded Gold Nanoparticles.- Proteins and Patients -- Magnetic Nanoparticles as Analytic Markers.- Novel Quantum Transport Effects in Single-Molecule Transistors.- Nanowires and 1D Systems.- Growth Evolution and Characterization of PLD Zn(Mg)O Nanowire Arrays.- Spin-Transfer Torques in Single-Crystalline Nanopillars.- Andreev Reflection in Nb-InAs Structures: Phase Coherence, Ballistic Transport and Edge Channels.- Selective Edge Excitation -- Inter-Edge Magnetoplasmon Mode and Inter-Edge Spin Diode.- Decoherence of Fermions Subject to a Quantum Bath.- Correlation Effects on Electronic Transport through Dots and Wires.- Optoelectronics.- Ultrafast Dynamics of Optically-Induced Charge and Spin Currents in Semiconductors.- From a Fundamental Understanding of Phase Change Materials to Optimization Rules for Nonvolatile Optical and Electronic Storage.- GaInAs/AlAsSb Quantum Cascade Lasers: A New Approach towards 3-to-5 ?m Semiconductor Lasers.- Thin Films and Materials.- Hydrostatic Pressure Effects in the Magnetocaloric Compounds R5(SixGe1?x )4.- Magnetoelectric Correlations in Multiferroic Manganites Revealed by Nonlinear Optics.- Domain Wall Formation in Ferromagnetic Layers: An Ab Initio Study.- Domain Wall Spin Structures in 3d Metal Ferromagnetic Nanostructures.- Six Emerging Directions in Sculptured-Thin-FilmResearch.- Ion Beam Assisted Growth of Sculptured Thin Films: Structure Alignment and Optical Fingerprints.- Organic Thin Film Devices for Displays and Lighting.