High quality β-SiC films obtained by low-temperature heteroepitaxy combined with a fast carbonization step

Received: 11 September 1998 / Accepted: 19 October 1998 / Published online: 24 February 1999     

Dopant dimension influence on polyaniline film structure

Received: 25 February 1998 / Accepted: 28 May 1998 / Published online: 24 February 1999     

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     

Photoinduced transformations and holographic recording in nanolayered a-Se/As2S3 and AsSe/As2S3 films

Received: 13 October 1998 / Accepted: 9 December 1998 / Published online: 24 February 1999     

Surface preparation and characterization of indium tin oxide substrates for organic electroluminescent devices

Received: 10 March 1998 / Accepted: 21 September 1998 / Published online: 24 February 1999     

KrF excimer laser ablation of thin Cr film on glass substrate

Received: 5 October 1998 / Accepted: 14 December 1998 / Published online: 24 February 1999     

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     

Collinear pump probe experiment, novel approach to ultrafast spectroscopy

Received: 8 July 1998 / Revised version: 29 October 1998 / Published online: 24 February 1999     

Modeling and computer simulation of pulsed-laser-induced ablation

Received: 21 April 1998 / Accepted: 21 September 1998 / Published online: 24 February 1999     

High-efficiency 2 kW XeCl excimer laser

Received: 15 May 1998 / Revised version: 5 August 1998 / Published online: 24 February 1999     

Mechanism of conductivity in metal-polymer-metal structures

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

Experimental study with a Fourier set-up of the image transfer from a laser beam to a forward or backward stimulated Raman scattered beam

Received: 13 July 1998 / Revised version: 8 October 1998 / Published online: 24 February 1999     

First evidence for the linear magnetic birefringence of the reflecting surface of interferential mirrors

-9 . Received: 20 July 1998 / Revised version: 27 November 1998 / Published online: 24 February 1999     

Orbital effect of a magnetic field on two-leg Hubbard ladder

By setting up the relevant recursion relations and by doing exact and approximate calculations, we show that there is no critical dimension in a self-avoiding random walk on a simplex fractal. Received: 6 April 1998 / Revised: 4 August 1998 / Accepted: 26 August 1998     

Adiabatical stability of density distributions under Vlasov dynamics

It is shown using Vlasov dynamics that the density distribution corresponding to a mean field Bose condensate in an external time dependent potential is adiabatically stable whereas density distributions corresponding to finite temperature are not. Received: 27 February 1998 / Revised: 20 April 1998 / Accepted: 23 April 1998     

Molecular resolution of an organic monolayer by dynamic AFM

We report molecularly resolved dynamic AFM-measurements of a monolayer of perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic-3,4,9,10-dianhydride (PTCDA) epitaxially grown on Ag(110). Preparation and experiments were performed under UHV conditions. The frequency-modulation AFM technique was applied. Received: 26 February 1998 / Revised: 13 May 1998 / Accepted: 8 June 1998     

Pressure dependence of the morphology and size of cobalt (II,III) oxide nanoparticles prepared by pulsed-laser ablation

Received: 18 September 1998/Accepted: 22 September 1998     

Microscopic growth mechanisms for carbon and boron-nitride nanotubes

Received: 27 November 1998 / Accepted: 18 December 1998     

Hydrogen dissociation on metal surfaces – a model system for reactions on surfaces

Received: 23 March 1998/Accepted: 21 August 1998     

Interaction of atomic hydrogen with metal surfaces

Received: 23 March 1998/Accepted: 21 August 1998