1. Forthcoming papers

   Announcement Pages: A5 - A5

2. An optical differential reflectance study of adsorption and desorption of xenon and deuterium on Ni(111)

   • A. Wong
   • X. D. Zhu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 8

3. Arc plasma jet cleaning of the silicon surface before CoSi₂/Si contact formation

   • G. Ya. Pavlov
   • V. P. Pugachevich
   • E. B. Kudryashova

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 12

4. A thermal model for the ablation of polymers by lasers and high intensity ion pulses

   • T. Feurer
   • H. Langhoff

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 17

5. Void ordering in hexagonal close-packed metals

   • Th. Klemm
   • W. Frank

   OriginalPaper Pages: 19 - 29

6. Ion beam mixing of Pt marker layers in Al

   • J. D. Boness
   • W. Boise
   • K. P. Lieb

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 36

7. Charge-state effects of deep centres in semiconductors on non-radiative capture of carriers by multiphonon processes

   • Y. Q. Kang
   • J. H. Zheng
   • S. C. Ng

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 43

8. Stochastic dislocation patterning during cyclic plastic deformation

   • P. Hähner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 55

9. Structural stability of heat-treated Co/C soft X-ray multilayers fabricated by dual-facing-target sputtering

   • H. L. Bai
   • E. Y. Jiang
   • C. D. Wang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 65

10. Are ternary halides useful materials for nonlinear optical applications?

    • M. Hagemann
    • H. -J. Weber

    OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 74

11. Fast etching and metallization of SiC ceramics with copper-vapor-laser radiation

    • S. I. Dolgaev
    • A. A. Lyalin
    • Shafeev Voronov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 75 - 79

12. Structural and optical properties of ZnSe _x Te_1−-x solid solutions in thin-film form

    • M. M. El-Nahass
    • B. A. Khalifa
    • R. El-Ariny

    OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 86

13. Single-shot UV-laser ablation of polyimide with variable pulse lengths

    • M. Himmelbauer
    • E. Arenholz
    • D. Bäuerle

    Rapid communication Pages: 87 - 90