1. Principles of photoluminescence / Baldassare Di Bartolo and John Collins -- 2. AIN : properties and applications / Ashok Sedhain, Jingyu Lin, and Hongxing Jiang -- 3. GaN-based optical devices / Hiroaki Ohta, Steven P. DenBaars, and Shuji Nakamura -- 4. Photoluminescence of ZnO : basics and applications / Klaus Thonke and Martin Feneberg -- 5. Novel applications of ZnO : random lasing and UV photonic light sources / Hui Cao and Robert P.H. Chang -- 6. Luminescent ZnO and MgZnO / Leah Bergman ... [et al.] -- 7. Luminescence studies of impurities and defects in III-nitride semiconductors / Bo Monemar and Plamen P. Paskov -- 8. Narrow-gap semiconductors for infrared detectors / Antoni Rogalski -- 9. Solid-state lighting / Lekhnath Bhusal and Angelo Mascarenhas -- 10. Fundamentals of the quantum confinement effect / Patanjali Kambhampati -- 11. Selenide and sulfide quantum dots and nanocrystals : optical properties / Andrea M. Munro -- 12. Radiative cascades in semiconductor quantum dots / Eilon Poem and David Gershoni -- 13. Photoluminescence and carrier transport in nanocrystalline TiO2 / Jeanne L. McHale and Fritz J. Knorr -- 14. Photoluminescence spectroscopy of single semiconductor nanoparticles / Takashi Tachikawa and Tetsuro Majima -- 15. Biological applications of photoluminescent semiconductor quantum dots / Oleg Kovtun and Sandra J. Rosenthal.