In this paper we study the existence and qualitative property of standing wave solutions for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation . Let . For any integer k ≥ 1, we prove existence of standing wave solutions with u > 0 having k local maximum points and concentrating near a given local maximum point of Γ when ε is small. The potentials V and K are allowed to be either vanishing or unbounded at infinity. Existence of solutions concentrating near k distinct non-degenerate critical points of Γ has...