Intrinsic Josephson effects in layered superconductors -- Semiconductor crystals with tailor-made isotopic compositions -- Generation of blue and ultraviolet light by frequency doubling of semiconductor laser radiation -- Blue-emitting laser diodes -- The III–V nitride semiconductors for blue light emission: Recent progress and a critical evaluation of their potential in comparison to the ZnSe based II–VI semiconductors -- Developments for large-scale production of high-efficiency silicon solar cells -- The challenge of crystalline thin film silicon solar cells -- CuInSe2 and related materials for thin film solar cells -- Experimental observation of persistent currents in GaAs?GaAlAs single loops -- Strongly correlated confined electrons -- Antidot superlattices: Classical chaos and quantum transport -- Nonlinear transport spectroscopy on quantum dots -- Raman scattering by acoustic phonons in semiconductor superlattices -- Nonequilibrium many-body effects in semiconductor microlasers -- Structural properties of lattice-mismatched compound semiconductor heterostructures -- Coherent emission of electromagnetic pulses from bloch oscillations in semiconductor superlattices.