chapter 1 Chapter Soft Chemical Synthesis and Manipulation of Semiconductor Nanocrystals -- chapter 2 Chapter Electronic Structure in Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Optical Experiment -- chapter 3 Chapter Fine Structure and Polarization Properties of Band-Edge Excitons in Semiconductor Nanocrystals -- chapter 4 Chapter Intraband Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Colloidal Semiconductor Quantum Dots -- chapter 5 Chapter Multiexciton Phenomena in Semiconductor Nanocrystals -- chapter 6 Chapter Optical Dynamics in Single Semiconductor Quantum Dots -- chapter 7 Chapter Electrical Properties of Semiconductor Nanocrystals -- chapter 8 Chapter Optical and Tunneling Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanocrystal Quantum Dots -- chapter 9 Chapter Quantum Dots and Quantum Dot Arrays: Synthesis, Optical Properties, Photogenerated Carrier Dynamics, Multiple Exciton Generation, and Applications to Solar Photon Conversion -- chapter 10 Potential and Limitations of Luminescent Quantum Dots in Biology -- chapter 11 Colloidal Transition-Metal-Doped Quantum Dots.