Semiconductor and Metal Nanocrystals addresses topics impacting the field including synthesis and assembly of nanocrystals, theory and spectroscopy of interband and intraband optical transitions, single-nanocrystal optical and tunneling spectroscopies, electrical transport in nanocrystal assemblies, and physical and engineering aspects of nanocrystal-based devices. Written by experts, this reference presents key advances in the field of semiconductor nanocrystal quantum dots and metal nanoparticles over the past several years. It focuses specifically on nanocrystals generated through chemical techniques and merges investigative frontiers in physics, chemistry, and engineering.

Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Soft Chemical Synthesis and Manipulation of Semiconductor Nanocrystals; Electronic Structure in Semiconductor Nanocrystals - Optical Experiment;Fine Structure and Polarization Properties of the Band-edge Excitons in Semiconductor Nanocrystals; Intraband Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Semiconductor Colloidal/Quantum Dots; Optical Dynamics in Single Semiconductor Quantum Dots; Electrical Properties of Semiconductor Nanocrystals; Tunnelling and Optical Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanocrystal Quantum Dots - Single Particle and Ensemble Properties; Quantum Dots and Quantum Dot Arrays - Synthesis, Optical Properties, Photogenerated Carrier Dynamics and Applications to Photon Conversion; Metal Nanocrystals: Synthesis and Fabrication of Metal Nanocrystal Superlatticies; Optical Spectroscopy of Surface Plasmons In Metal Nanoparticles; Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Metal Nanoparticles.OTI #1: DK1647