The present volume 48 of the Advances in Solid State Physics contains the written version of a large number of the invited talks of the 2008 Spring Meeting of the DPG section Condensed Matter Physics (Sektion kondensierte Materie der DPG) which was held in Berlin, Germany, and gives a nice overview of the present status of condensed matter physics. Low-dimensional systems are dominating the field and especially nanowires and quantum dots. In recent years one
learned how to produce nanowires directly during a growth process. Therefore, a number of articles is related to such nanowires. In nanoparticles and quantum dots, the dimensionality is further reduced and we learn more and more how to produce such systems in a defined way and what effects result from the confinement in all
three dimensions. Spin effects and magnetism is another important field of present-day research in solid state physics. The third chapter covers this physics. The growing interest into organic materials and biological systems is reflected in a large chapter
of this book with the title Organic Materials and Water. The last chapters of this book cover aspects that range from dynamical effects up to device physics and characterization tools.

Résumé

The 2008 Spring Meeting of the Arbeitskreis Festkörperphysik was held in Berlin, Germany, between February 24 and February 29, 2008 in conjunction with the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. The 2008 meeting was the largest physics meeting in Europe and among the largest physics meetings in the world in 2008.

Contenu
Nanowires.- From Ordered Arrays of Nanowires to Controlled Solid State Reactions.- Growth Methods and Properties of High Purity III-V Nanowires by Molecular Beam Epitaxy.- Simple Ways to Complex Nanowires and Their Application.- ZnO Nanostructures: Optical Resonators and Lasing.- Waveguiding and Optical Coupling in ZnO Nanowires and Tapered Silica Fibers.- Quantum Dots and Nanoparticles.- Electrically Driven Single Quantum Dot Emitter Operating at Room Temperature.- Silicon Nanoparticles: Excitonic Fine Structure and Oscillator Strength.- Intrinsic Non-Exponential Decay of Time-Resolved Photoluminescence from Semiconductor Quantum Dots.- Electrical Spin Injection into Single InGaAs Quantum Dots.- Spin and Magnetism.- Spintronic and Electro-Mechanical Effects in Single-Molecule Transistors.- Transport in 2DEGs and Graphene: Electron Spin vs. Sublattice Spin.- Spin Dynamics in High-Mobility Two-Dimensional Electron Systems.- Magnetization Dynamics of Coupled Ferromagnetic-Antiferromagnetic Thin Films.- Magnetic and Electronic Properties of Heusler Alloy Films Investigated by X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism.- Coherent Spin Dynamics in Nanostructured Semiconductor-Ferromagnet Hybrids.- Organic Materials and Water.- Coupling of Paramagnetic Biomolecules to Ferromagnetic Surfaces.- Band Alignment in Organic Materials.- Organometallic Nanojunctions Probed by Different Chemistries: Thermo-, Photo-, and Mechano-Chemistry.- When It Helps to Be Purely Hamiltonian: Acceleration of Rare Events and Enhanced Escape Dynamics.- Liquid Polyamorphism and the Anomalous Behavior of Water.- Dynamical Effects, Rectification and Nonlinearities.- Terahertz Detection of Many-Body Signatures in Semiconductor Heterostructures.- Theory of Ultrafast Dynamics of Electron-Phonon Interactions in TwoDimensional Electron Gases: Semiconductor Quantum Wells, Surfaces and Graphene.- Optical Microcavities as Quantum-Chaotic Model Systems: Openness Makes the Difference!.- Nonlinear Transport Properties of Electron Y-Branch Switches.- Rectification Through Entropic Barriers.- Characterization of Materials and Devices.- Microstructure Tomography An Essential Tool to Understand 3D Microstructures and Degradation Effects.- Profiling of Fiber Texture Gradients by Anomalous X-ray Diffraction.- Film Production Methods in Precision Optics.- Advanced Metrology for Next Generation Transistors.