Abstract
Our Feature Article by Manfred Bayer [1] is devoted to a central problem of modern semiconductor physics, which is the control of light–matter interaction in microresonator structures with three-dimensional confinement. By forming so-called photonic dots or even coupled molecule-like structures and photonic crystals, the optical modes of such systems were investigated in detail. The cover picture shows an SEM micrograph of two neighboring dots of about 5 μm diameter, which in this case were covered with a lateral gold metal coating to increase reflectivity of the sidewalls and avoid leaky modes. The author, who is shortly portrayed on the final page of the article, has received the Walter Schottky award of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft in 2000 for his work. Very recently he has moved to the Physics Department of the University of Dortmund, where he is now a faculty member in Experimental Physics.
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