Spectroscopic properties and STM images of carbon nanotubes

Received: 23 November 1998 / Accepted: 22 December 1998     

Enhanced adhesion of diamond-like carbon films with a composition-graded intermediate layer

Received: 15 September 1998 / Accepted: 3 November 1998     

Mechanism of conductivity in metal-polymer-metal structures

Received: 25 September 1998 / Accepted: 25 November 1998 / Published online: 24 February 1999     

Slow positron annihilation studies of vacancy-type defects in the near-surface region of Cu and Nb before and after wear

Received: 22 June 1998 / Accepted: 9 November 1998     

Impact of the cathode metal work function on the performance of vacuum-deposited organic light emitting-devices

Received: 7 September 1998 / Accepted: 27 November 1998 / Published online: 24 February 1999     

Sum-frequency generation study of reacting species at surfaces

Received: 6 October 1998 / Revised version: 3 November 1998     

Ultrafast magnetization dynamics of Nickel

Received: 28 November 1998 / Revised version: 14 December 1998     

Si in-diffusion during the 3D islanding of Ge/Si(001) at high temperatures

Received: 7 September 1998 / Accepted: 20 November 1998 / Published online: 24 February 1999     

High-dynamic-range pulse-front steepening of amplified femtosecond pulses by third-order dispersion

Received: 9 June 1998/Revised version: 4 November 1998     

Reflection high-energy electron diffraction real-time monitoring of an etch process implemented in molecular beam epitaxy technology: hydrogen chloride versus GaAs(001) epilayers

Received: 13 November 1997/Accepted: 19 January 1998     

Generation of high order optical harmonics from solid surfaces

Received: 26 November 1998     

SHG investigations of the magnetization of thin Ni and Co films on Cu(001)

Received: 22 November 1998     

On the sensitivity limit of positron annihilation: detection of vacancies in as-grown silicon

14 cm^-3 in FZ-Si was obtained. Received: 2 June 1998 / Accepted: 20 November 1998 / Published online: 24 February 1999     

Formation of amorphous layers by solid-state reaction. from thin Ir films on Si(100)

Received: 18 November 1997 / Accepted: 16 October 1998 / Published online: 24 February 1999     

Microscopic growth mechanisms for carbon and boron-nitride nanotubes

Received: 27 November 1998 / Accepted: 18 December 1998     

Time-resolved two-photon photoemission spectroscopy of HOPG and Ag nanoparticles on HOPG

Received: 6 November 1998     

Adsorption and decomposition of formic acid (DCOOD) on NiO(111) and Ni(111) surfaces probed by SFG

Received: 20 September 1998 / Revised version: 3 November 1998     

Electronic structure at carbon nanotube tips

Received: 27 November 1998 / Accepted: 5 January 1999     

Long-term existence of a solid surface under temperature above melting point. Is it possible?

Received: 21 November 1997/Accepted: 1 April 1998     

Inelastic neutron scattering study of the dynamics of the AlNiCo decagonal phase

The dynamics of the decagonal AlNiCo phase has been investigated on a single-grain quasicrystalline sample using inelastic neutron scattering. The decagonal structure can be viewed as a periodic stacking of quasiperiodic planes. The anisotropy between the modes propagating in the periodic and quasiperiodic directions is found to be much weaker than theoretically predicted. A strong resonance splitting is observed at an energy transfer of 15 meV for transverse modes polarized in the quasiperiodic plane. Received: 18 November 1998 / Accepted: 27 November 1998