"Key Features: most up-to-date reference work summarizing recent advances on semiconductor quantum dots and nanowires; state-of-the-art chapters written by research experts from academia and industry; about 1,350 bibliographic citations and thousands of illustrations, figures, tables, and equations; and an essential resource for scientists, researchers, upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, and college and university professors working in the field of electrical and electronic engineering, materials science, solidstate physics, nanotechnology, computational engineering, spectroscopy, and device applications."--Jacket.