1. Forthcoming papers

   Announcement Pages: A5 - A5

2. Pyrolytic LCVD of fibers: A theoretical description

   • N. Arnold
   • E. Thor
   • D. Bäuerle

   OriginalPaper Pages: 503 - 508

3. Excimer-laser-induced permanent electrical conductivity in solid C₆₀ films

   • D. Ning
   • Q. H. Lou
   • Y. R. Wei

   OriginalPaper Pages: 509 - 512

4. Microstructure and roughness improvement of polycrystalline Bi thin films upon pulsed-laser melting

   • T. Missana
   • C. N. Afonso

   OriginalPaper Pages: 513 - 518

5. Processing and properties of some II–IV–V₂ amorphous and crystalline semiconductors

   • S. H. Risbud

   OriginalPaper Pages: 519 - 523

6. ⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer spectra study of coated α-Fe₂O₃ nanoparticles

   • Haosheng Fei
   • Mingyuan Gao
   • Jiacong Shen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 525 - 528

7. Using positron 2D-ACAR as a probe of point defects in GaAs: The As vacancy as a case study

   • R. Ambigapathy
   • C. Corbel
   • K. Saarinen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 529 - 532

8. High fluence laser ablation of aluminum targets: Time-of-flight mass analysis of plasmas produced at wavelengths 532 and 355 nm

   • S. Amoruso
   • V. Berardi
   • M. Armenante

   OriginalPaper Pages: 533 - 541

9. Preparation and characterization of highly oriented, photoconducting WS₂ thin films

   • C. Ballif
   • M. Regula
   • F. Lévy

   OriginalPaper Pages: 543 - 546

10. Photovoltage and photo-induced charge trapping in porous silicon

    • P. K. Kashkarov
    • E. A. Konstantinova
    • V. Yu. Timoshenko

    OriginalPaper Pages: 547 - 551

11. Investigations on the expansion dynamics of Ge atoms produced from laser-ablated GeO₂

    • P. J. Wolf

    OriginalPaper Pages: 553 - 558

12. Laser-induced structural relaxation in Sb-rich SbGe films

    • M. C. Morilla
    • C. N. Afonso
    • J. Solis

    OriginalPaper Pages: 559 - 564

13. Investigation by ellipsometry of the damage in GaAs bombarded with low-energy Ar ions

    • I. N. Koprinarov
    • U. Müller-Jahreis
    • P. Thiele

    OriginalPaper Pages: 565 - 570

14. Chemical-specific imaging of multicomponent metal surfaces on the nanometer scale by scanning tunneling spectroscopy

    • M. Bode
    • R. Pascal
    • R. Wiesendanger

    Rapid Communication Pages: 571 - 573

15. Vertical ordering of islands in Ge-Si multilayers

    • B. Rahmati
    • W. Jäger
    • H. Lüth

    Rapid Communication Pages: 575 - 579