Quantum Ring: A Unique Playground for the Quantum-Mechanical Paradigm -- Growth and Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Quantum Rings -- 0D Band Gap Engineering by MBE Quantum Rings: Fabrication and Optical Properties -- Self-organized Quantum Rings: Physical Characterization and Theoretical Modeling -- Scanning Probe Electronic Imaging of Lithographically Patterned Quantum Rings -- Self-organized Formation and XSTM-Characterization of GaSb/GaAs Quantum Rings -- Fabrication of Ordered Quantum Rings by Molecular Beam Epitaxy -- Self-assembled Semiconductor Quantum Ring Complexes by Droplet Epitaxy: Growth and Physical Properties-- New Versions of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect in Quantum Rings -- Aharonov-Bohm Effect for Neutral Excitons in Quantum Rings -- Optical Aharonov-Bohm Effect in Type-II Quantum Dots -- Excitons Confined in Single Semiconductor Quantum Rings: Observation and Manipulation of Aharonov-Bohm-Type Oscillations -- Strained Quantum Rings -- Theoretical Modelling of Electronic and Optical Properties of Semiconductor Quantum Rings -- Coulomb Interaction in Finite-Width Quantum Rings -- Differential Geometry Applied to Rings and Möbius Nanostructures -- Hole Mixing in Semiconductor Quantum Rings -- Engineering of Electron States and Spin Relaxation in Quantum Rings and Quantum Dot-Ring Nanostructures -- Erratum to: Fabrication of Ordered Quantum Rings by Molecular Beam Epitaxy.

This book deals with a new class of materials, quantum rings. Innovative recent advances in experimental and theoretical physics of quantum rings are based on the most advanced state-of-the-art fabrication and characterization techniques as well as theoretical methods.