Handbook of Luminescent Semiconductor Materials

This handbook explains how photoluminescence spectroscopy is a powerful and practical analytical tool for revealing the fundamentals of light interaction and, thus, the optical properties of semiconductors. The book shows how luminescent semiconductors are used in lasers, photodiodes, infrared detectors, light-emitting diodes, solid-state lamps, solar energy, and biological imaging. It introduces basic semiconductor theory and photoluminescence principles, discusses the optical properties of wide-bandgap semiconductors, presents research on narrow-bandgap semiconductors and solid-state lighting, and covers the optical properties of semiconductors in the nanoscale regime.