Spectroscopic process sensors in MOVPE device production

Received: 21 October 1998 / Accepted: 23 October 1998     

Mechanism of conductivity in metal-polymer-metal structures

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

Force measurements of optical tweezers in electro-optical cages

Received: 19 May 1998/Accepted: 28 May 1998     

Electric-field modulation measurements of complex electro-optic effects in poled polymer

Received: 10 July 1998/Revised version: 21 September 1998     

Conduction bands and invariant energy gaps in alkali bromides

Electronic structure calculations of the alkali bromides LiBr, NaBr, KBr, RbBr and CsBr are reported. It is shown that the conduction band has primarily bromine character. The size of the band gaps of bromides and alkali halides in general is reinterpreted. Received: 26 January 1998 / Revised: 16 March 1998 / Accepted: 23 March 1998     

Diode-laser-seeded optical parametric oscillator for airborne water vapor DIAL application in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere

Received: 4 May 1998/Revised version: 17 July 1998     

Fluctuation-dissipation ratio in lattice-gas models with kinetic constraints

We investigate by Monte-Carlo simulation the linear response function of three dimensional structural glass models defined by short-range kinetic constraints and a trivial equilibrium Boltzmann-Gibbs measure. The breakdown of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem in the glassy phase follows the prediction of mean field low temperature mode-coupling theory. Received: 24 April 1998 / Received in final form: 8 May 1998 / Accepted: 11 May 1998     

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     

Intracavity frequency mixing in pulsed optical parametric oscillators for the efficient generation of continuously tunable ultraviolet radiation

Received: 4 May 1998/Revised version: 8 July 1998     

A study of defects in ultra-thin transparent coatings on polymers

2 or more). Received: 1 September 1998/Accepted: 6 October 1998     

Surface second-harmonic generation spectra of Si(111)-7×7 in the -–1.0 1.7eV fundamental photon energy

Received: 20 September 1998 / Revised version: 23 December 1998     

Generation of tunable sub-picosecond pulses in the UV with a travelling wave dye laser

Received: 22 June 1998/Revised version: 3 August 1998     

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     

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     

Probing photo-induced alignment in poly(vinyl cinnamate) films by surface second-harmonic generation

Received: 20 September 1998 / Revised version: 18 December 1998     

The topological structure of vortex in BEC

We find that there exists an elementary topological current in Bose-Einstein condensation. Based on the -mapping topological current theory, the implicit function theorem and the Taylor expansion, the topological structure of vortex lines is detailed in the neighborhoods of the bifurcation points of the condensate wave function. Received: 9 April 1998 / Revised: 28 August 1998 / Accepted: 31 August 1998     

Self-organized nanostructures in Si1-xGex films on Si(001)

Received: 30 July 1998/Accepted: 23 October 1998     

Etalon effect in wave-mixing experiments with photorefractive crystals

We present investigations of the etalon effect in sillenite photorefractive crystals with a pulsed frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser and show its influence on two- and four-wave mixing. In four-wave mixing the etalon effect allows changes of the diffraction efficiency by more than 80%. Results are supported by theoretical considerations. Received: 15 April 1998/Revised version: 19 June 1998     

A tunable ultrafast spectrometer based on hollow waveguides: Demonstration in violet–blue

′ -hydroxy-5^′-methylphenyl)-benzotriazole. Received: 2 June 1998/Revised version: 31 July 1998     

Wavenumber dependence of structural relaxation in a molecular liquid

Structural relaxation in liquid orthoterphenyl is studied by means of coherent neutron time-of-flight and backscattering spectroscopy over a large temperature range. Not only amplitude and relaxation time but also the spectral line shape show a significant variation with wavenumber. These variations are correlated with the static structure factor, in qualitative accord with mode-coupling results for simple liquids. Even far above the melting point, relaxation remains non-exponential. Received: 5 January 1998 / Revised: 3 April 1998 / Accepted: 19 June 1998