From the reviews: "This 48th volume of the Advances in Solid State Physics series contains the written version of many talks from the 2008 Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Conference held in Berlin. ... includes remarkably lucid research presentations. ... Research articles on nanowires, quantum dots, quantum wells and graphene form the core of the book. ... I recommend this volume as a good place to start one's education in low-dimensional systems ... even advanced scholars would profit from pure enjoyment of the exposition." (Christian Brosseau, Optics & Photonics News, September, 2009)

• 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.