Preface 

1. Optically injected single-mode quantum dot lasers
B. Kelleher, D. Goulding, S.P. Hegarty, G. Huyet, E.A. Viktorov and T. Erneux

2. Exotic Behavior in Quantum Dot Mode-locked Lasers: Dark Pulses and Bistability
Kevin Silverman, Mingming Feng, Richard Mirin, and Steven Cundiff

3. Spectral Splitting Effects and Their Influence to the Performance of Quantum Dot Mode Locked Lasers
Charis Mesaritakis and Dimitris Syvridis

4. Mode-locked semiconductor lasers with optical injection
Tatiana Habruseva, Natalia Rebrova, Stephen P. Hegarty, and Guillaume Huyet

5. Catastrophic Optical Damage in Quantum Dot Lasers
Ching Kean Chia and M. Hopkinson

6. Post-Growth Intermixing of GaAs Based Quantum Dot Devices
Ziyang Zhang and Richard A. Hogg

7. Photonic Crystal Cavity Lasers
Yiyang Gong, Bryan Ellis, and Jelena Vuckovic

8. InGaAs Submonolayer Quantum-Dot Photonic-Crystal LEDs for Fiber-Optic Communications
Hung-Pin D. Yang

9. Quantum Optical Transistor and Other Devices Based on Nanostructures
Jin-Jin Li and Ka-Di Zhu

10. Quantum Dot Switches: Towards Nanoscale Power-Efficient All-Optical Signal Processing
Chao-Yuan Jin, Mark Hopkinson, Osamu Kojima, Takashi Kita, Kouichi Akahane, and Osamu Wada

11. Ultrafast Terahertz Dynamics and Switching in Quantum Dots
Dmitry Turchinovich and Matthias C. Hoffmann

12. Nonlinear optics and saturation behavior of quantum dot samples under continuous wave driving
T. Ackemann, A. Tierno, R. Kuszelewicz, S. Barbay, M. Brambilla, C. G. Leburn, and C. T. A. Brown

13. Quantum Dots with Built-in Charge for Enhancing Quantum Dot Solar Cells and Infrared Photodetectors
K. A. Sablon, V. Mitin, J. W. Little, A. Sergeev and N. Vagidov

14. Semiconductor Quantum Dot-Sensitized Solar Cells Employing TiO2 Nanostructured Photoanodes with Different Morphologies
Qing Shen and Taro Toyoda

15. Optoelectronic Applications of Colloidal Quantum Dots
Zhiping Wang, Nanzhu Zhang, Kimber Brenneman, Tsai Chin Wu, Hyeson Jung, Sushmita Biswas, Banani Sen, Kitt Reinhardt, Sicheng Liao, Michael A. Stroscio, and Mitra Dutta
Index

Quantum dots as nanomaterials have been extensively investigated in the past several decades from growth to characterization to applications. As the basis of future developments in the field, this book collects a series of state-of-the-art chapters on the current status of quantum dot devices and how these devices take advantage of quantum features. Written by 56 leading experts from 14 countries, the chapters cover numerous quantum dot applications, including lasers, LEDs, detectors, amplifiers, switches, transistors, and solar cells. Quantum Dot Devices is appropriate for researchers of all levels of experience with an interest in epitaxial and/or colloidal quantum dots. It  provides the beginner with the necessary overview of this exciting field and those more experienced with a comprehensive reference source.