1. Patterning of c-axis-oriented Ba₂TiX₂O₈ (X = Si, Ge) crystal lines in glass by laser irradiation and their second-order optical nonlinearities

   • Tsuyoshi Honma
   • Takayuki Komatsu
   • Yasuhiko Benino

   OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 885 - 888

   

2. Optical and electrical modeling of thin-film silicon solar cells

   • M. Zeman
   • J. Krc

   Review 01 April 2008 Pages: 889 - 898

   

3. Synthesis of water-soluble PbSe quantum dots

   • Lioz Etgar
   • Efrat Lifshitz
   • Rina Tannenbaum

   OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 899 - 903

   

4. Hot isostatic pressing synthesis and mechanical properties of Al/Al–Cu–Fe composite materials

   • T. El Kabir
   • A. Joulain
   • D. Bertheau

   OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 904 - 910

   

5. Ionic conductivity enhancement in Gd₂Zr₂O₇ pyrochlore by Nd doping

   • B.P. Mandal
   • S.K. Deshpande
   • A.K. Tyagi

   OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 911 - 916

   

6. Hydrothermal synthesis of Co-doped In₂S₃ micropompons and their physical properties

   • Anuja Datta
   • Dibyendu Ganguli
   • Subhadra Chaudhuri

   OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 917 - 923

   

7. Microstructure, mechanical, and electrical properties of Cu–Ti₃AlC₂ and in situ Cu–TiC_x composites

   • J. Zhang
   • Y.C. Zhou

   OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 924 - 932

   

8. Self-formed pencil-like bulk composite materials consisting of copper alloy and stainless steel

   • C.P. Wang
   • X.J. Liu
   • K. Ishida

   OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 933 - 940

   

9. Plasticity of bulk metallic glasses improved by controlling the solidification condition

   • Z.W. Zhu
   • S.J. Zheng
   • Y. Ren

   OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 941 - 948

   

10. Ductile TiAl alloy with a Widmanstätten lamellar structure formed by rapid heating

    • J.P. Cui
    • M.L. Sui
    • D.X. Li

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 949 - 953

    

11. Dy³⁺-doped chalcohalide glass for 1.3-μm optical fiber amplifiers

    • Gao Tang
    • Zhiyong Yang
    • Wei Chen

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 954 - 961

    

12. Ionization-induced effects in amorphous apatite at elevated temperatures

    • In-Tae Bae
    • Yanwen Zhang
    • Mikio Higuchi

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 962 - 967

    

13. Fabrication of gold nanoparticles in intense optical field by femtosecond laser irradiation of aqueous solution

    • Takahiro Nakamura
    • Yuzuru Mochidzuki
    • Shunichi Sato

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 968 - 974

    

14. Postpressing dependence of the effective electron diffusion coefficient in electrophoretically prepared nanoporous ZnO and TiO₂ films

    • S. Dor
    • Th. Dittrich
    • A. Zaban

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 975 - 980

    

15. Synthesis, microstructure and hardness of bulk ultrahard BN nanocomposites

    • D. Rafaja
    • V. Klemm
    • N. Dubrovinskaia

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 981 - 993

    

16. Pulsed-laser-induced nc-Si and nc-Si/SiO_x core–shell structures on Si substrates

    • Y. Ma
    • X.T. Zeng
    • Z.X. Shen

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 994 - 997

    

17. High-strain-rate dynamic mechanical behavior of a bulk metallic glass composite

    • Morgana Martin
    • Laszlo Kecskes
    • Naresh N. Thadhani

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 998 - 1008

    

18. Phase transition and dislocation nucleation in Cu–Nb layered composites during physical vapor deposition

    • Jian Wang
    • Richard G. Hoagland
    • Amit Misra

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 1009 - 1014

    

19. Microscopic investigation of modified hydration kinetics in tricalcium silicate paste and mortar strength caused by dicalcium silicate addition

    • Vanessa K. Peterson
    • Paul E. Stutzman
    • Richard A. Livingston

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 1015 - 1019

    

20. Reduced electrical resistivity of reaction-sintered SiC by nitrogen doping

    • Young-Sam Jeon
    • Hyunho Shin
    • Sang-Won Kang

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 1020 - 1025

    

21. Fast assembly of bio-inspired nanocomposite films

    • Viatcheslav Vertlib
    • Marianne Dietiker
    • Alexander M. Puzrin

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 1026 - 1035

    

22. Terahertz wave properties of alumina microphotonic crystals with a diamond structure

    • Hideaki Kanaoka
    • Soshu Kirihara
    • Yoshinari Miyamoto

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 1036 - 1041

    

23. Synthesis by plasma-enhanced chemical-vapor deposition and characterization of siliconlike films with hydrophobic functionalities for improved long-term geometric stability of fiber-reinforced polymers

    • A. Cremona
    • E. Vassallo
    • L. Laguardia

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 1042 - 1050

    

24. Atomic migration in eutectic SnBi solder alloys due to current stressing

    • Chih-ming Chen
    • Chih-chieh Huang

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 1051 - 1056

    

25. The micro-impact fracture behavior of lead-free solder ball joints

    • Y.L. Huang
    • K.L. Lin
    • D.S. Liu

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 1057 - 1063

    

26. Structure of layered WSe₂ thin films with ultralow thermal conductivity

    • Seongwon Kim
    • Jian Min Zuo
    • David G. Cahill

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 1064 - 1067

    

27. Microindentation of titanium: Dependence of plastic energy on the indentation depth and time-dependent plastic deformation

    • Rong Chen
    • Fuqian Yang
    • Peter Pao

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 1068 - 1075

    

28. Simultaneously increasing the strength and ductility of the modified casting Al–Cu alloy

    • Wengui Zhao
    • Huiyuan Wang
    • Qichuan Jiang

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 1076 - 1081

    

29. Effects of thermal annealing on the microstructural properties of the lower region in ZnO thin films grown on n-Si (001) substrates

    • J.M. Yuk
    • J.Y. Lee
    • W.K. Choi

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 1082 - 1086

    

30. Polarity effect of electromigration on intermetallic compound formation in a Cu/Sn–9Zn/Cu sandwich

    • Shih-Ming Kuo
    • Kwang-Lung Lin

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 1087 - 1094

    

31. A modified embedded-atom method interatomic potential for the Cu–Zr system

    • Young-Min Kim
    • Byeong-Joo Lee

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 1095 - 1104

    

32. Enthalpy of formation of the cubic fluorite phase in the ceria–zirconia system

    • Theresa A. Lee
    • Christopher R. Stanek
    • Alexandra Navrotsky

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 1105 - 1112

    

33. Experimental method to account for structural compliance in nanoindentation measurements

    • J.E. Jakes
    • C.R. Frihart
    • D.S. Stone

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 1113 - 1127

    

34. Effect of precipitate volume fraction on fracture toughness of extruded Mg–Zn alloys

    • Hidetoshi Somekawa
    • Yoshiaki Osawa
    • Toshiji Mukai

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 1128 - 1135

    

35. Solvothermal approach to nanocrystalline Li–Ti–O insertion hosts–solvent polarity effect

    • Tereza Kostlánová
    • Marina V. Makarova
    • Petr Krtil

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 1136 - 1146

    

36. Undercooling and microhardness of Pb-free solders on various under bump metallurgies

    • Moon Gi Cho
    • Sung K. Kang
    • Hyuck Mo Lee

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 1147 - 1154

    

37. Effects of interface bonding configuration on photoluminescence of ZnO quantum dots–SiO_xN_y nanocomposite films

    • Yu-Yun Peng
    • Tsung-Eong Hsieh
    • Chia-Hung Hsu

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 1155 - 1162

    

38. Self-organized Zn/ZnO core-shelled hierarchical structures prepared by aqueous chemical growth

    • C.Y. Kuan
    • J.M. Chou
    • M.H. Hon

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 1163 - 1167

    

39. Specific interaction characteristics in organoclay nanocomposite of miscible poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) and poly(vinyl chloride) blend

    • Sang-Kyun Lim
    • Eun-Hee Lee
    • In-Joo Chin

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 1168 - 1174

    

40. Contact fatigue of silicon

    • Sanjit Bhowmick
    • Juan José Meléndez-Martínez
    • Brian R. Lawn

    OriginalPaper 01 April 2008 Pages: 1175 - 1184

    

41. Erratum to: “Deformation and failure of a film/substrate system subjected to spherical indentation: Part II. Prediction of failure modes in a thin TiN film deposited on a compliant elastic substrate” [J. Mater. Res. 21, 783 (2006)]

    • S. Math
    • V. Jayaram
    • S.K. Biswas

    Erratum 01 April 2008 Pages: 1185 - 1185

42. Erratum to: “Effect of residual stress on the fracture strength of columnar TiN films” [J. Mater. Res. 22, 3501 (2007)]

    • S.J. Suresha
    • R. Gunda
    • S.K. Biswas

    Erratum 01 April 2008 Pages: 1186 - 1186