Quantum Dots -- Single Photons from Single Quantum Dots — New Light for Quantum Information Processing -- Quantum-Dot Spin Qubit and Hyperfine Interaction -- Counting Statistics of Single Electron Transport in a Semiconductor Quantum Dot -- Size-Tunable Exchange Interaction in InAs/GaAs Quantum Dots -- Quantum Dots in Planar Cavities — Single and Entangled Photon Sources -- Molecules and Nanoparticles -- Periodic Structure Formation in Polymer Films with Embedded Gold Nanoparticles -- Proteins and Patients — Magnetic Nanoparticles as Analytic Markers -- Novel Quantum Transport Effects in Single-Molecule Transistors -- Nanowires and 1D Systems -- Growth Evolution and Characterization of PLD Zn(Mg)O Nanowire Arrays -- Spin-Transfer Torques in Single-Crystalline Nanopillars -- Andreev Reflection in Nb-InAs Structures: Phase Coherence, Ballistic Transport and Edge Channels -- Selective Edge Excitation — Inter-Edge Magnetoplasmon Mode and Inter-Edge Spin Diode -- Decoherence of Fermions Subject to a Quantum Bath -- Correlation Effects on Electronic Transport through Dots and Wires -- Optoelectronics -- Ultrafast Dynamics of Optically-Induced Charge and Spin Currents in Semiconductors -- From a Fundamental Understanding of Phase Change Materials to Optimization Rules for Nonvolatile Optical and Electronic Storage -- GaInAs/AlAsSb Quantum Cascade Lasers: A New Approach towards 3-to-5 ?m Semiconductor Lasers -- Thin Films and Materials -- Hydrostatic Pressure Effects in the Magnetocaloric Compounds R5(SixGe1?x )4 -- Magnetoelectric Correlations in Multiferroic Manganites Revealed by Nonlinear Optics -- Domain Wall Formation in Ferromagnetic Layers: An Ab Initio Study -- Domain Wall Spin Structures in 3d Metal Ferromagnetic Nanostructures -- Six Emerging Directions in Sculptured-Thin-Film Research -- Ion Beam Assisted Growth of Sculptured Thin Films: Structure Alignment and Optical Fingerprints -- Organic Thin Film Devices for Displays and Lighting.