1. Electronic and structural properties of graphene-based transparent and conductive thin film electrodes

   • A. Vollmer
   • X. L. Feng
   • J. P. Rabe

   Rapid communication Open access 14 October 2008 Pages: 1 - 4

2. Variable range hopping conduction and percolation networks in the pellets formed from pristine and boron-doped carbon nanohorn particles

   • Y. Fukunaga
   • M. Harada
   • S. Iijima

   Rapid communication 26 September 2008 Pages: 5 - 9

3. Gold nanoparticle growth on self-assembled monolayers of ferrocenyl-substituted terpyridine on graphite

   • Frank Hubenthal
   • Nils Borg
   • Frank Träger

   Rapid communication 27 September 2008 Pages: 11 - 17

4. Microdrilling of metals with an inexpensive and compact ultra-short-pulse fiber amplified microchip laser

   • A. Ancona
   • D. Nodop
   • A. Tünnermann

   Rapid communication 02 October 2008 Pages: 19 - 24

5. Three dimensional multilayered acoustic cloak with homogeneous isotropic materials

   • Y. Cheng
   • X. J. Liu

   Rapid communication 09 September 2008 Pages: 25 - 30

6. Characterization of the electronic excitations in Alq₃ using electron energy-loss spectroscopy

   • M. Knupfer

   Rapid communication 22 August 2008 Pages: 31 - 34

7. Atomic force microscopy studies of chemical–mechanical processes on silicon(100) surfaces

   • R. Imoto
   • F. Stevens
   • J. T. Dickinson

   Invited paper 03 July 2008 Pages: 35 - 43

8. Experimental verification of negative refraction in a double cross metamaterial

   • Christian Imhof
   • Remigius Zengerle

   OriginalPaper 15 August 2008 Pages: 45 - 49

9. Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes from natural precursors by spray pyrolysis method and their field electron emission properties

   • Pradip Ghosh
   • T. Soga
   • K. Sumiyama

   OriginalPaper 08 September 2008 Pages: 51 - 56

10. Influence of Thomson effect on the resultant local Seebeck coefficient in thermoelectric composite materials

    • Osamu Yamashita
    • Hirotaka Odahara
    • Kouji Satou

    OriginalPaper 27 August 2008 Pages: 57 - 64

11. CdSe & ZnS core/shell nanoparticles generated by laser ablation of microparticles

    • I. Gallardo
    • K. Hoffmann
    • J. W. Keto

    OriginalPaper 11 October 2008 Pages: 65 - 72

12. The influence of nitridation time on the structural properties of GaN grown on Si (111) substrate

    • Engin Arslan
    • Mustafa K. Ozturk
    • Ekmel Ozbay

    OriginalPaper 30 October 2008 Pages: 73 - 82

13. Enhanced magnetization and ferrimagnetic behavior of normal spinel ZnFe₂O₄ thin film irradiated with femtosecond laser

    • Seisuke Nakashima
    • Koji Fujita
    • Kazuyuki Hirao

    OriginalPaper 31 October 2008 Pages: 83 - 88

14. Study of high energy Mn⁺¹ ion implantation in GaAs

    • Anupama Chanda
    • H. P. Lenka
    • Chacko Jacob

    OriginalPaper 06 November 2008 Pages: 89 - 94

15. Laser-induced local dehydroxylation on surface-oxidized silicon substrates: mechanistic aspects and prospects in nanofabrication

    • Nils Hartmann
    • Benjamin Klingebiel
    • Eckart Hasselbrink

    OriginalPaper 01 November 2008 Pages: 95 - 103

16. Electrical properties of boron-doped diamond-like carbon thin films deposited by femtosecond pulsed laser ablation

    • A. Sikora
    • A. Berkesse
    • C. Donnet

    OriginalPaper 24 September 2008 Pages: 105 - 109

17. Melt-mediated coalescence of solution-deposited ZnO nanoparticles by excimer laser annealing for thin-film transistor fabrication

    • Heng Pan
    • Nipun Misra
    • Oscar Dubon

    OriginalPaper 19 October 2008 Pages: 111 - 115

18. The development of the physical and electrical characteristics of multi-layer TiO₂–W–TiO₂ thin films

    • Cheng-Fu Yang
    • Hong-Hsin Huang
    • Chien-Chen Diao

    OriginalPaper 17 June 2008 Pages: 117 - 122

19. Formation of hexagonal shaped wurtzite zinc sulphide nano rods

    • S. Senthilkumaar
    • R. Thamiz Selvi

    OriginalPaper 17 June 2008 Pages: 123 - 129

20. Enhanced magnetization of nanoparticles of Mg _x Fe_(3−x)O₄ (0.5≤x≤1.5) synthesized by combustion reaction

    • Adolfo Franco Jr.
    • Thiago Eduardo Pereira Alves
    • Vivien Zapf

    OriginalPaper 13 June 2008 Pages: 131 - 137

21. Amorphous stainless steel coatings prepared by reactive magnetron-sputtering from austenitic stainless steel targets

    • Salvatore Cusenza
    • Peter Schaaf

    OriginalPaper Open access 13 June 2008 Pages: 139 - 154

22. Directional cellular growth of Al-2 wt% Li bulk samples

    • H. Kaya
    • E. Çadırlı
    • M. Gündüz

    OriginalPaper 20 June 2008 Pages: 155 - 165

23. Calculations of electronic structure and density of states in the wurtzite structure of Zn_1−x Mg _x O alloys using sp³ semi-empirical tight-binding model

    • Kuo-Feng Lin
    • Ching-Ju Pan
    • Wen-Feng Hsieh

    OriginalPaper 21 June 2008 Pages: 167 - 171

24. The sublimation growth of AlN fibers: transformations in morphology & fiber direction

    • H. Q. Bao
    • X. L. Chen
    • W. J. Wang

    OriginalPaper 16 June 2008 Pages: 173 - 177

25. The electronic excitation spectrum of CuPcF₁₆ films

    • K. Flatz
    • M. Grobosch
    • M. Knupfer

    OriginalPaper 27 June 2008 Pages: 179 - 183

26. Hydrothermal preparation and photoluminescence of bundle-like structure of ZnWO₄ nanorods

    • Xu Chun Song
    • E. Yang
    • Min Luo

    OriginalPaper 20 June 2008 Pages: 185 - 188

27. An analytical model for the determination of crystallite size and crystal lattice microstrain distributions in nanocrystalline materials from the variance of the X-ray diffraction peaks

    • F. Sánchez-Bajo
    • A. L. Ortiz
    • F. L. Cumbrera

    OriginalPaper 28 June 2008 Pages: 189 - 194

28. An integrated simulation and statistical technique for investigating the effect of interpenetration polymer brushes in a good solvent

    • Yan Xing Shen
    • Jen Fin Lin

    OriginalPaper 21 June 2008 Pages: 195 - 209

29. Erratum to Atomic transport and chemical reaction in TiN/Ti nanolayers on plasma nitrided steel

    • C. Aguzzoli
    • E. K. Tentardini
    • I. J. R. Baumvol

    Erratum 29 July 2008 Pages: 211 - 211

30. Erratum to Crackless linear through-wafer etching of Pyrex glass using liquid-assisted CO₂ laser processing

    • C. K. Chung
    • Y. C. Sung
    • S. L. Lin

    Erratum 07 November 2008 Pages: 213 - 213