Part I. Topology-driven effects
1. Quantum ring: a unique playground for the quantum-mechanical paradigm
V. M. Fomin
2. Optical Berry phase in micro/nano-rings
L. B. Ma, V. M. Fomin and O. G. Schmidt
3. From dot to ring: tunable exciton topology on type II InAs/GaAsSb quantum nanostructures
J. M. Llorens, V. Lopes-Oliveira, V. López-Richard, J. M. Ulloa and B. Alén
PartI II. Fabrication and characterization
4. Self-organized quantum rings: physical characterization and theoretical modeling
V. M. Fomin, V. N. Gladilin, M. Flatté, J. van Bree, J. T. Devreese, and P. M. Koenraad
5. Scanning-probe electronic imaging of lithographically patterned quantum rings
F. R. Martins, D. Cabosart, H. Sellier, M. G. Pala, B. Hackens, V. Bayot and S. Huant
6. Functionalization of droplet etching for quantum rings
C. Heyn, M. Zocher and W. Hansen
7. Fabrication of ordered quantum rings by molecular beam epitaxy
J. Wu and Z. M. Wang
8. Self-assembled semiconductor quantum rings complexes by droplet epitaxy: growth and physical properties
S. Sanguinetti, T. Mano and T. Kuroda
Part III. Optical Aharonov-Bohm effect
9. Optical Aharonov-Bohm oscillations of an exciton and a biexciton in a quantum ring
K. Kyhm, H. D. Kim, R. Okuyama, M. Eto, R. A. Taylor, G. Nogues, L. S. Dang, A. A. L. Nicholet, M. Potemski, J. S. Kim, and J. D. Song
10. Aharonov-Bohm effect for neutral excitons in quantum rings
M. D. Teodoro, V. L. Campo, Jr., V. Lopez-Richard, E. Marega, Jr., G. E. Marques and G. J. Salamo
Part IV. Theory
11. Electronic, magnetic and optical properties of quantum rings of novel materials
T. Chakraborty, A. Manaselyan and M. Barseghyan
12. Spin interference effects in Rashba rings
C. Ortix
13. Quantum Rings in Electromagnetic Fields
A.M. Alexeev and M.E. Portnoi,
14. Intense THz radiation effect on electronic and intraband optical properties of semiconductor quantum rings
H. M. Baghramyan, M.G. Barseghyan, A.A. Kirakosyan and D. Laroze
15. Electron-phonon interaction in ring-like nanostructures C. Trallero-Giner, Darío G. Santiago-Pérez, Leonor Chico and R. Pérez-Álvarez
16. Differential geometry applied to rings and Möbius nanostructures
B. Lassen, M. Willatzen and J. Gravesen
17. Band mixing effects in InAs/GaAs quantum rings and in the ring-like behaving MoS2 quantum dots
C. Segarra, J. Planelles and J. I. Climente
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About the Author:
Vladimir M. Fomin is a Research Professor at the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences (IIN), Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden and a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the State University of Moldova. He received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the State University of Moldova in 1978. His research pertained to non-linear optical properties and transport in semiconductors and multi-layer structures. He was awarded the State Prize of Moldova in 1987, and received his degree of Doctor of physical and mathematical sciences ("habilitation", Academy of Sciences of Moldova) in 1990. Since 1995 he has been a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the State University of Moldova. In 1999, he received a Diploma of a Scientific Discovery of the Phenomenon of the Propagation of Spatially-Extended Interface Phonon Polaritons in Composite Superlattices from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Russia. He was a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Martin-Luther-University of Halle, 1993-1994), University of Antwerp, 1995-2008 and Eindhoven University of Technology, 1998-1999 and 2003-2007, Catholic University of Leuven, 2008, University of Duisburg-Essen, 2008-2009, and the IIN IFW Dresden since 2009. In 2007 he became an Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. His scientific interests currently concern topology- and geometry-driven phenomena in nanophysics, especially the physics of quantum rings. He has published four books and over 200 scientific articles, and holds 10 patents.
