The field of semiconductor nanostructures is of enormous and still-growing research interest. On one hand, they are already realized in mass products such as high-electron-mobility field-effect transistors and quantum-well lasers. On the other hand, they allow, in specially tailored systems, the investigation of fundamental properties such as many-particle interactions of electrons in reduced dimensions. This book bridges the gap between general semiconductor textbooks and research articles.

Basic Concepts.- Fundamentals of Semiconductors and Nanostructures.- Electronic Elementary Excitations.- Basic Concepts of Inelastic Light Scattering, Experiments on Quantum Wells.- Recent Advances.- Quantum Dots: Spectroscopy of Artificial Atoms.- Quantum Wires: Interacting Quantum Liquids.- Tunneling-Coupled Systems.- Inelastic Light Scattering in Microcavities.- Kronecker Products of Dipole Matrix Elements I.- Kronecker Products of Dipole Matrix Elements II.