ABSTRACT
In this review, we present a study of phototransport properties of systems with high enough density of semiconductor (SC) quantum dots (QDs) such that the phototransport can be determined experimentally and for which the size of the dots is small enough to reveal quantum confinement eff ects. The main purpose of the work described here is to demonstrate that the quantum confinement eff ect is manifested by the macroscopic steady state and transient phototransport properties. The relevance of these findings to various novel phenomena, such as an anomalous photovoltaic (APV) eff ect and the blinking of the photoluminescence (PL), are discussed.
