Front Cover; Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, Volume 107; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. Magneto-Transport as a Probe of Electron Dynamics in Open Quantum Dots; I. Introduction; II. Magneto-Transport in Open Quantum Dots: Some Theoretical Considerations; III. Weak-Field Magneto-Transport in Open Quantum Dots: Low-Temperature Properties; IV. Weak-Field Magneto-Transport in Open Quantum Dots: High-Temperature Properties; V. High-Field Magneto-Transport in Open Quantum Dots; VI. Concluding Discussion; References

Chapter 2. External Optical Feedback Effects in Distributed Feedback Semiconductor LasersI. Introduction; II. Distributed Feedback Laser Fundamentals; III. Experimentally Observed Effects; IV. Theories on Optical Feedback; V. External Optical Feedback Sensitivity; VI. Conclusion; References; Chapter 3. Atomic Scale Strain and Composition Evaluation from High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy Images; I. Introduction; II. Strain-State Analysis; III. Composition Evaluation by Lattice Fringe Analysis; IV. Applications; V. Summary and Discussion of the Atomic Scale Analysis Methods

Appendix A: List of VariablesChapter 4. Hexagonal Sampling in Image Processing; I. Introduction; II. Image Sampling on a Hexagonal Grid; III. Processor Architecture; IV. Binary Image Processing.; V. Monochrome Image Processing; VI. Conclusions; References; Chapter 5. The Group Representation Network: A General Approach to Invariant Pattern Classification; I. Pattern Classification and the Invariance Problem; II. Group Representation Theory; III. Linear and Nonlinear Concomitants; IV. Adaptivity in Group Representation Networks; V. Practical Considerations and Simulations

VI. The Computational Power of the Group Representation Network ModelVII. The Group Representation Network and Other Invariant Classification Methods; VIII. Summary and Open Questions; Proof of Theorem III.1; References; Index