Semiconductors -- September 1999 Volume 33, Issue 9, pp. 933-1047 Eightieth anniversary of the Ioffe Institute B. B. D'yakov Full Text: PDF (396 kB) Silicon-germanium—a promise into the future? H. G. Grimmeiss Full Text: PDF (117 kB) SEMICONDUCTOR HETEROSTRUCTURES Heterostructure solar cells V. M. Andreev Full Text: PDF (73 kB) Quantum dot lasers: the birth and future trends N. N. Ledentsov Full Text: PDF (240 kB) Quantum dots: Paradigm changes in semiconductor physics D. Bimberg Full Text: PDF (383 kB) Electrons and phonons in quantum wells J. Pozela, A. Namajunas, K. Pozela, and V. Juciene Full Text: PDF (78 kB) Physics and technologies of superhigh-efficiency tandem solar cells M. Yamaguchi Full Text: PDF (72 kB) Growth of III–N materials and devices by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition R. D. Dupuis, P. A. Grudowski, C. J. Eiting, J. Park, and C. J. Eiting Full Text: PDF (70 kB) High density 2DEG in III–V semiconductor heterostructures and high-electron-mobility transistors based on them V. G. Mokerov, Yu. V. Fedorov, and A. V. Hook Full Text: PDF (33 kB) Heteroepitaxial growth of InAs on Si: a new type of quantum dot G. E. Cyrlin, V. N. Petrov, V. G. Dubrovskii, Yu. B. Samsonenko, N. K. Polyakov, A. O. Golubok, S. A. Masalov, N. I. Komyak, V. M. Ustinov, A. Yu. Egorov, A. R. Kovsh, M. V. Maximov, A. F. Tsatsul'nikov, B. V. Volovik, A. E. Zhukov, P. S. Kop'ev, N. N. Ledentsov, Zh. I. Alferov, and D. Bimberg Full Text: PDF (413 kB) High-efficiency AlGaAs/GaAs concentrator (2500 suns) solar cells V. M. Andreev, V. P. Khvostikov, V. R. Larionov, V. D. Rumyantsev, E. V. Paleeva, and M. Z. Shvarts Full Text: PDF (44 kB) Parabolic negative magnetoresistance in p-Ge/Ge1 – xSix heterostructures Yu. G. Arapov, G. I. Harus, V. N. Neverov, N. G. Shelushinina, and O. A. Kuznetsov Full Text: PDF (54 kB) Role of thermal ejection of carriers in the burning of spatial holes in quantum dot lasers L. V. Asryan and R. A. Suris Full Text: PDF (62 kB) Polarization anisotropy in optical reflection spectra of structures with open nanowires N. S. Averkiev, S. O. Kognovitskii, and V. V. Travnikov Full Text: PDF (50 kB) Photoluminescence of InAs quantum dots grown on disoriented GaAs substrates G. V. Astakhov, V. P. Kochereshko, D. G. Vasil'ev, V. P. Evtikhiev, V. E. Tokranov, I. V. Kudryashov, and G. V. Mikhailov Full Text: PDF (55 kB) Short-wavelength current tuning of InAsSb/InAsSbP heterostructure lasers caused by an injection nonuniformity A. P. Danilova, T. N. Danilova, A. N. Imenkov, N. M. Kolchanova, M. V. Stepanov, V. V. Sherstnev, and Yu. P. Yakovlev Full Text: PDF (71 kB) Giant linear polarization of photoluminescence in type-II ZnSe/BeTe superlattices A. V. Platonov, V. P. Kochereshko, G. V. Mikhailov, D. R. Yakovlev, W. Ossau, A. Waag, and G. Landwehr Full Text: PDF (46 kB) Wide-gap semiconductors for high-power electronics A. A. Lebedev and V. E. Chelnokov Full Text: PDF (38 kB) Effect of local vibrations on the H and D atom densities at a Si surface I. P. Ipatova, O. P. Chikalova-Luzina, and K. Hess Full Text: PDF (25 kB) Irradiation as a possible method for producing SiC heterostructures A. A. Lebedev Full Text: PDF (40 kB) InGaAs/InP heterostructures with strained quantum wells and quantum dots (lambda = 1.5 – 1.9 µm) Z. N. Sokolova, D. A. Vinokurov, I. S. Tarasov, N. A. Gun'ko, and G. G. Zegrya Full Text: PDF (43 kB) Spontaneously assembling periodic composition-modulated InGaAsP structures L. S. Vavilova, V. A. Kapitonov, A. V. Murashova, N. A. Pikhtin, I. S. Tarasov, I. P. Ipatova, V. A. Shchukin, N. A. Bert, and A. A. Sitnikova Full Text: PDF (721 kB) Gain characteristics of quantum-dot injection lasers A. E. Zhukov, A. R. Kovsh, V. M. Ustinov, A. Yu. Egorov, N. N. Ledentsov, A. F. Tsatsul'nikov, M. V. Maksimov, S. V. Zaitsev, Yu. M. Shernyakov, A. V. Lunev, P. S. Kop'ev, Zh. I. Alferov, and D. Bimberg Full Text: PDF (50 kB) Blue-green ZnSe lasers with a new type of active region S. V. Ivanov, A. A. Toropov, S. V. Sorokin, T. V. Shubina, I. V. Sedova, P. S. Kop'ev, Zh. I. Alferov, A. Waag, H. J. Lugauer, G. Reuscher, M. Keim, F. F. Fischer, and G. Landwehr Full Text: PDF (584 kB) Optical spectra of wide band gap BexZn1 – xSe alloys A. M. Mintairov, S. Raymond, J. L. Merz, F. C. Peiris, S. Lee, U. Bindley, J. K. Furdyna, A. M. Mintairov, V. G. Melehin, and K. Sadchikov Full Text: PDF (60 kB) Excitonic molecules trapped by quantum dots and isoelectronic impurities in many-valley semiconductors A. A. Rogachev Full Text: PDF (44 kB) High-frequency current instabilities in a silicon Auger transistor E. V. Ostroumova and A. A. Rogachev Full Text: PDF (49 kB) Application of superfast (102 – 103 °C/s) cooling of a solution–melt in the liquid-phase epitaxy of semiconductors A. V. Abramov, N. G. Deryagin, and D. N. Tret'yakov Full Text: PDF (53 kB) GaInAsSb/GaSb heterostructures grown in the spinodal decay region by liquid-phase epitaxy from Sb-enriched solution–melts V. I. Vasil'ev, D. Akhmedov, A. G. Geryagin, V. I. Kuchinskii, I. P. Nikitina, V. M. Smirnov, and D. N. Tret'yakov Full Text: PDF (45 kB) Optoelectronic images of polycrystalline thin-film solar cells based on CuInSe2 and CuInGaSe2 obtained by laser scanning G. A. Medvedkin, L. Stolt, and J. Wennerberg Full Text: PDF (732 kB) Conductance of a quantum wire in a parallel magnetic field V. A. Geiler and V. A. Margulis Full Text: PDF (46 kB) Quantization of magnetic induction in a 2D system under conditions of the quantum Hall effect G. G. Zegrya Full Text: PDF (52 kB) OBITUARY In memory of Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Lebedev Full Text: PDF (99 kB)