19th International Conference on Electron Dynamics in Semiconductors, Optoelectronics and Nanostructures (EDISON'19)

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The 19th International Conference on Electron Dynamics in Semiconductors, Optoelectronics and Nanostructures (EDISON'19) was held at the Hospedería Fonseca (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain), on 29 June - 2 July, 2015, and was organized by the Electronics Area from the University of Salamanca.The Conference is held biannually and covers the recent progress in the field of electron dynamics in solid-state materials and devices. This was the 19th meeting of the international conference series formerly named Hot Carriers in Semiconductors (HCIS), first held in Modena in 1973. In the edition of 1997 in Berlin the name of the conference changed to International Conference on Nonequilibrium Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductors, keeping the same acronym, HCIS; and finally in the edition of Montpellier in 2009 the name was again changed to the current one, International Conference on Electron Dynamics in Semiconductors, Optoelectronics and Nanostructures (EDISON). The latest editions took place in Santa Barbara, USA, in 2011 and Matsue, Japan, in 2013.Research work on electron dynamics involves quite different disciplines, and requires both fundamental and technological scientific efforts. Attendees to the conference come mostly from academic institutions, belonging to both theoretical and experimental groups working in a variety of fields, such as solid-state physics, electronics, optics, electrical engineering, material science, laser physics, etc. In this framework, events like the EDISON conference become a basic channel for the progress in the field. Here, researchers working in different areas can meet, present their latest advances and exchange their ideas.The program of EDISON'19 included 13 invited papers, 61 oral contributions and 73 posters. These contributions originated from scientists in more than 30 different countries. The Conference gathered 140 participants, coming from 24 different countries, most from Europe, but also with a significant participation from Japan and USA.The two topics receiving more abstracts correspond to fields attracting a lot ofattention and research activity in the last years: electron dynamics in graphene andrelated materials and devices, and THz phenomena in nanostructures. Other topics likecoherent dynamics in ultrafast optical phenomena or quantum processing, andsemiconductor-based spintronics, had also an important presence in the program.Thanks are given to the members of the International and Scientific ProgramCommittees for their valuable and qualified assistance in the selection of invitedspeakers and the review of the submitted contributions; and also to those attendeeswho assisted us in the review process of the papers included in this volume.We would like also to thank the institutions and sponsors that contributed to supportthe conference. Firstly the University of Salamanca, one of the oldest in the world,commemorating within three years, in 2018, the 8th century of its foundation in 1218.EDISON'19 can be considered as one more of the events taking place to celebrate suchcentennial. The Salamanca City Council also contributed in the organization of theconference. We acknowledge as well the support from the Spanish Ministry ofEconomy and Competitiveness, and from our sponsors and exhibitors, OxfordInstruments and Rohde&Schwarz.Finally, we would like to thank all participants and authors of the proceedings for theirsupport and contributions to the conference.We devote this volume to the memory of Prof. Daniel Pardo, our dear boss inSalamanca for many years, who passed away in 2013. He was the pioneer of ouractivity in the field of the conference and would have enjoyed a lot the celebration ofEDISON in Salamanca.