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OCTOBER VOLUME 104, NUMBER 1 (Published 12 September 1997) CONTENTS Ill Publisher’s Announcement K. Aliakhverdiev, F. Ismailov, L. Kador and ] Second-harmonic generation in GaS crystals M. Braun H. R. Asatryan, J. Rosa and J. A. Mares EPR studies of Er*+, Nd**+ and Ce** in YA10, single crystals D. B. Tran Thoai, Q. C. Ninh and H. T. Cao Polarizability of a hydrogenic impurity in a quantum-well wire: effect of finite barrier height and nonsquare cross-section S. K. O’Leary and P. K. Lim On determining the optical gap associated with an amorphous semiconductor: a generalization of the Tauc model W. K. Fullagar, P. A. Reynolds and J. W. White Lithium and sodium fullerides prepared in liquid ammonia G. Ajithkumar and N. V. Unnikrishnan Energy transfer from Mn** to Nd* in phosphate glasses A. Cros, H. Angerer, O. Ambacher, M. Stutzmann, Raman study of the optical phonons in Al,Ga,_,N alloys R. Hopler and T. Metzger P. Dore, P. Calvani, G. De Marzi, A. Paolone, Optical conductivity of CuO, infinite-layer films S. Lupi, G. Balestrino, G. Petrocelli and R. Desfeux V. Luajia, A. Costales, A. Martin Pendas, Structural and chemical stability of halide perovskites M. Flérez and V. M. Garcia Fernandez S. Zollner, K. D. Myers, K. G. Jensen, Femtosecond interband hole scattering in Ge studied by pump- J. M. Dolan, D. W. Bailey and C. J. Stanton probe reflectivity OCTOBER VOLUME 104, NUMBER 2 (Published 26 September 1997) CONTENTS Ii] Publisher’s Announcement G.-M. Zhao, H. Keller, J. Hofer, A. Shengelaya 57 Novel crossover from a metallic to an insulating ground-state in and K. A. Miiller (Lag sNdpo 5)p.67C ap.33MnO; by increasing the oxygen mass J. von Boehm and R. M. Nieminen 63 Atomistic study of the interactions between two partial edge dislocations in gold S. Chatterjee, B. K. Chaudhuri and T. Komatsu 67 Effect of Fe doping on the transport properties of as-quenched Bi; 9Sr; 3Ca, ;Cu,O, glasses showing superconducting behavior in the corresponding glass-ceramic phases K. R. Priolkar, S. M. Pattalwar, P. K. Mishra, Structural and magnetic behaviour of CeSi, .Ga, , P. Raj, A. Sathyamoorthy, S. K. Dhar, V. C. Sahni, P. R. Sarode and R. B. Prabhu C. M. Canali, W. Stephan, L. Y. Gorelik, Ordering effect of Colomb interaction in ballistic double-ring R. I. Shekhter and M. Jonson systems iv Vol. 104, Nos 1—12 Contents V. Bellani, S. Di Lernia, M. Geddo, G. Guizzetti, 81 Thermoreflectance study of the direct energy gap of GaSb A. Bosacchi, S. Franchi and R. Magnanini A. Bournel, P. Dollfus, S. Galdin, F.-X. Musalem 85 Modelling of gate-induced spin precession in a striped channel and P. Hesto high electron mobility transistor B. R. Jovanié, B. Radenkovié and Lj. D. Zekovi¢ 91 Theoretical consideration of the pressure induced changing of fluorescence lifetime for Sm** 0-0 line (0D) — 7Fo transition) in SrFCl D. K. Powell, T. Miebach, S.-L. Cheng, Specific heat of TSeF-TCNQ L. K. Montgomery and J. W. Brill X. Y. Huang, J. S. Pan and Y. D. Fan A first-principles LMTO-ASA study of crystalline metastable phases in Ni-Nb system S. Hughes Non-Markovian memory effects in GaN lasers W. D. Hutchinson, S. J. Harker, T. D. St Quintin, On the diffusion of Co into PrNi; G. A. Stewart, A. Grayevsky and N. Kaplan K. Murayama, T. Toyama, S. Miyazaki and Fundamental absorption edge spectrum of ultrathin a-Si : H film M. Hirose in a-Si: H/a-Si,;N,:H multilayer obtained from luminescence excitation spectrum OCTOBER VOLUME 104, NUMBER 3 1997 (Published 29 September 1997) CONTENTS Ill Publisher’s Announcement X. Chen On the role of local-field effect on optical intersubband saturation and intrinsic bistability in a step quantum well H. Okumoto, M. Shimomura, N. Minami and Photoconductivity of poly(dimethylsilane) vacuum deposited Y. Tanabe films in connection with their photoreactivity L. Sheng, D. Y. Xing and C. S. Ting Nonequilibrium statistical operator approach to nonlinear trans- port in mesoscopic systems J. Q. Duan, B. R. Zhang, G. Q. Yao, L. P. Wang, Effects of isochronal thermal annealing and hydrogenation on Y. X. Zhang, G. G. Qin, G. Y. Zhang, Y. Z. Tong, photoluminescence from n-type GaN films grown by metal- S. X. Jin and Z. J. Yang organic vapor phase epitaxy Z. D. Kvon, K. Kim, N. Kim, H. J. Lee, Quantum transport in ultrathin CoSi, polycrystalline films M. V. Budantsev and M. R. Baklanov L. Fu and L. Resca Effective dielectric function of a random system of spheres in the k— 0 limit Y. M. Malozovsky and J. D. Fan Impurity-induced localization in cuprate superconductors O. Zelaya-Angel, F. de L. Castillo-Alvarado, Raman studies in CdS thin films in the evolution from cubic to J. Avendafio-Lépez, A. Escamilla-Esquivel, hexagonal phase G. Contreras-Puente, R. Lozada-Morales and G. Torres-Delgado L. W. Engel, C.-C. Li, D. Shahar, D. C. Tsui and 167 Microwave resonances in low-filling insulating phase of two- M. Shayegan dimensional electron system S. Eisebitt, J. Liining, J.-E. Rubensson, D. Schmitz, 173 Dichroism and spin information in soft X-ray emission S. Bliigel and W. Eberhardt G. Coddens, A. M. Viano, P. C. Gibbons, 179 Time-of-flight neutron scattering study of hydrogen dynamics in K. F. Kelton and M. J. Kramer icosahedral Ti,;Zr3,Ni,7H,59 quasicrystals S. Huant, M. Fischer and B. Etienne 183 Novel cyclotron-resonance-intersubband coupling in tilted lateral superlattices Keywords Vol. 104, Nos 1—12 Contents OCTOBER VOLUME 104, NUMBER 4 (Published 3 October 1997) CONTENTS Il Publisher’s Announcement G. André, F. Bourée, K. Wochowski and W. Suski Magnetic structure of the UCu,_ ,Ni,Al, system Ch. Bellin, P. Roca i Cabarrocas, K. Zellama, Compton profiles of amorphous and hydrogenated amorphous M. L. Théye and G. Loupias silicon R. Ruus, A. Kikas, A. Saar, A. Ausmees, Ti 2p and O Is X-ray absorption of TiO, polymorphs E. Noémmiste, J. Aarik, A. Aidla, T. Uustare and I. Martinson B. Monemar, J. P. Bergman, I. G. Ivanov, Exciton dynamics in homoepitaxial GaN J. M. Baranowski, K. Pakula, I. Grzegory and S. Porowski A. K. Ghosh, S. K. Bandyopadhyay, P. Barat, a-Irradiation induced changes in fluctuation-conductivity in P. Sen and A. N. Basu (Bi, Pb)-2223 superconductors I. Shirotani, G. Iwasaki, I. Kaneko, C. Sekine, Electrical conductivity and superconductivity of ZrNi,P, and S. Todo and T. Yagi ZrRu,P, prepared at high pressure P. G. Pagliuso, C. Rettori, S. B. Oseroff, J. Sarrao, ESR of Gd** in LuInCu, intermetallic compound Z. Fisk, A. Cornelius and M. F. Hundley B. Farid Correiated ground states with (spontaneously) broken time-reversal symmetry T. Strohm and M. Cardona Determination of the s-wave/d-wave gap ratio in YBa,Cu,O, from electronic Raman scattering and the LMTO band structure M. Premila, C. S. Sundar, P. Ch. Sahu, Pressure induced dimerisation of C7 A. Bharathi, Y. Hariharan, D. V. S. Muthu and A. K. Sood H. Ebert, A. Vernes and J. Banhart Relativistic bandstructure of disordered magnetic alloys Author Index Keywords NOVEMBER VOLUME 104, NUMBER 5 (Published 8 October 1997) CONTENTS Il Publisher’s Announcement R. Ahuja, S. Auluck, O. Eriksson, J. M. Wills and 249 Electronic and optical properties of InP B. Johansson M. Mierzejewski, J. Zieliriski and P. Entel 253 Universal properties of high-temperature superconductors: a strong-coupling description B. Laikhtman, S. de-Leon and L. D. Shvartsman 257 Energy spectrum of InAs/GaSb heterostructures L. Zhang, W. L. Zhong, Y. G. Wang and 263 The cell volume effect in barium strontium titanate P. L. Zhang B. Gil, S. Clur and O. Briot 267 The exciton-polariton effect on the photoluminescence of GaN on sapphire J. C. Waerenborgh, M. S. Rogalski, 271 Mossbauer spectroscopy study of 3d-magnetic properties in A. P. Gongalves, J. B. Sousa and M. Almeida I. P. Ipatova, O. P. Chikalova-Luzina and 277 The influence of boron localized vibrations on the equilibrium A. A. Maradudin distribution of boron between the surface and bulk of a silicon crystal Vi . 104, Nos 1-12 Contents Z. H. Huang, S. D. Liang, C. Y. Chen and 281 Effects of electron-phonon interaction on impurity states in D. L. Lin ZnSe/ZnCdSe quantum wells under electric fields H. W. Yoon, M. D. Sturge and L. N. Pfeiffer 287 Magnetic field induced Mott transition of a one-component electron plasma in GaAs quantum wells H. Jiang and D. Yin 293 The power law behavior in the /-V characteristics of type-II superconductors O. Lyngnes, J. D. Berger, J. P. Prineas, S. Park, 297 Nonlinear emission dynamics from semiconductor microcavities G. Khitrova, H. M. Gibbs, F. Jahnke, M. Kira and in the nonperturbative regime S. W. Koch A. Villafiorita, F.M anghi, F. Parmigiani and Localized and itinerant character of electron states in the C. Calandra photoemission from CuGeO, Keywords NOVEMBER VOLUME 104, NUMBER 6 (Published 9 October 1997) CONTENTS Ill Publisher’s Announcement Y. Akahama and S. Endo Transport study on pressure-induced band overlapped metallization of layered semiconductor black phosphorus Y. Axahama, M. Kobayashi and H. Kawamura Raman study of black phosphorus up to 13 GPa M. Combescot, O. Betbeder-Matibet and Manybody effects on the subband filling of semiconductor C. Benoit a la Guillaume quantum wells Y. A. Kosevich Giant double-resonant optical rotation and total polarization conversion in gyrotropic and anisotropic two-dimensional systems L. Grigorjeva, D. Millers, E. A. Kotomin and Transient optical absorption in KNbO, crystals irradiated with E. S. Polzik pulsed electron beam S. C. Bhargava Mossbauer study of the one dimensional magnet Sr,CuO, D. K. Oh, S. K. Lee, C. H. Lee and C. E. Lee Pulsed piezoelectric resonance of urea Y. Matsumura, M. Yoshinaka, K. Hirota and Formation and sintering of La,Zr,0, by the hydrazine method O. Yamaguchi A. Kazimirov, T. Haage, L. Ortega, A. Stierle, Excitation of an X-ray standing wave in a SmBa,Cu,O-_; thin film F. Comin and J. Zegenhagen K. Chang and J.-B. Xia Asymmetric Stark shifts of exciton in InAs/GaAs pyramidal quantum dots X. L. Wu, S. Tong, X. N. Liu, X. M. Bao, Vibrational properties of near-surface regions of silicon S. S. Jiang, X. K. Zhang and D. Feng nanocrystallites A. Sayari, A. Mlayah, M. Maaref, F. F. Charfi, Resonant Raman scattering by interface phonons in type II R. Carles and R. Planel GaAs/AIAs superlattices C. D. Wei and S. F. Du Scaling behavior of local magnetic relaxation in high-temperature superconductors M. Wenzel, G. Irmer and J. Monecke Electronic Raman spectra of shallow acceptors in p-type InP Keywords Vol. 104, Nos 1—12 Contents NOVEMBER VOLUME 104, NUMBER 7 (Published 22 October 1997) CONTENTS Publisher’s Announcement M. L. Kulic’ and V. Oudovenko Why is d-wave pairing in HTS robust in the presence of impurities? M. I. Vasilevskiy, A. G. Rolo and M. J. M. Gomes One-phonon Raman scattering from arrays of semiconductor nano-crystals J.-L. Sauvajol, E. Anglaret, R. Aznar, D. Bormann Inelastic neutron investigation of CsC,, in its polymer and dimer and B. Hennion phases . V. Tsiper, P. D. Wang, J. L. Merz, A. L. Efros, Anomalous magnetophotoluminescence as a result of level S . Fafard, D. Leonard and P. M. Petroff repulsion in arrays of quantum dots V. Yu. Davydov, A. V. Subashiev, T. S. Cheng, Raman scattering by surface polaritons in cubic GaN epitaxial C. T. Foxon, I. N. Goncharuk, A. N. Smirnov and llaavyeerrss R. V. Zolotareva A. Mizel and M. L. Cohen Electronic transitions in InAs nanocrystals using Wannier function method *. S. Koh, Y. P. Feng and H. N. Spector Scattering of excitons by free carriers in narrow and wide quantum wells in the presence of a transverse electric field . Schmidt and M. Springborg One-dimensional chains of metal atoms . L. Ju and K. M. Krishnan Effect of vacuum annealing on oxygen stoichiometry and resistivity of sol-gel derived Lap 7Stp ;MnO,_; films . H. Qin and S. W. Gu Temperature dependence of the electron self-energy in a polar- crystal slab . Suzuki, O. Sakai and Y. Shimizu An extended Anderson model that shows decreasing resistivity with decreasing temperature .-F. Ren and Z.-Z. Xu In-plane phonons in (00 1) (ZnTe),(CdSe), strained superlattices . Giiven and B. Tanatar Piasmon-LO-phonon coupling effects on the drag rate in double quantum-well systems Keywords NOVEMBER VOLUME 104, NUMBER 8 (Published 24 October 1997) CONTENTS Publisher’s Announcement V. Milanovicé and Z. Ikonic Optimization of nonlinear optical rectification in semiconductor quantum wells using the inverse spectral theory T. Miyoshi, H. Furukawa, K. Nitta, H. Okuni and Effects of light and X-ray irradiation on CdS-doped glass N. Matsuo V. Mueller, A. Fuith, J. Fousek, H. Warhanek and Spontaneous strain in _ ferroelastic incommensurate H. Beige [N(CH;)4],CuCl, crystals S. LaRosa, R. J. Kelley, C. Kendziora, Shadow bands in overdoped Bi,Sr,CaCu,O,, , G. Margaritondo, M. Onellion and A. Chubukov Yu. G. Kusrayev, B. P. Zakharchenya, Fine structure of exciton levels in CdTe/CdMgTe quantum wells G. Karczewski, T. Wojtowicz and J. Kossut A. Ghosh, N. Kimura, S. Ishimaru, R. Ikeda, Solid state 'H NMR in one dimensional neutral complex: A. Takano and N. Kojima [PtCl,(en)][PtCl,(en)] Vili Vol. 104, Nos 1-12 Contents A. K. Chakraborty and B. Mallik 473 Observation of low-frequency electrical current oscillations in ferrocene sample with adsorbed 2-propanol vapor W. Yang, Z. S. Jiang, W. N. Wang and Y. W. Du 479 Magnetoresistance of Fe-SiO, granular films E. A. Secco 485 Stabilization of cubic structure in TII with Ag”, Br’, NO; A. Sundaresan, V. Caignaert, B. Raveau and 489 Nuclear and magnetic structures in new distorted perovskites E. Suard Pro 5_,Ce,Stg ;sMnO, (x at and 0.2) T. W. Kim Effect of an applied electric field on electronic subbands in Ig 53Gap 47As/52IAlnp 4gg4 s double quantum wells Author Index Keywords DECEMBER VOLUME 104, NUMBER 9 (Published 5 November 1997) CONTENTS Il Publisher’s Announcement V. Ya. Mitrofanov, A. E. Nikiforov and 499 The influence of pressure on crystal and magnetic structures of S. Yu. Shashkin K,CuF, X. M. Wang, A. Maeda, H. lizuka and T. Hanaguri 505 Dielectric response of the sliding SDW in (TMTSF),AsF, I. Hiromitsu, Y. Kaimori and T. Ito 511 Photovoltaic effect and electrically detected electron spin resonance of a H,-phthalocyanine/C,, heterojunction J. D. Mancini, W. J. Massano and R. Murawski 517 Comparison between Lanczos and linked cluster methods for the Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a square lattice S. V. Nistor, D. P. Lazar, H. KaB and EPR of trigonal Fe** centers in chlorinated SrCl, : Fe single D. Schoemaker crystals B. Renker, H. Schober, R. Heid and P. v. Stein Pressure and charge induced polymerisation of C,): a comparative study of lattice vibrations G. André, F. Bourée, A. Oles, W. Sikora, S. Baran Magnetic structures of HoPdSb compound and A. Szytuta Th. Nolte, Th. Pawlik and J.-M. Spaeth EPR study of Er** in congruent LiNbO, G. Su SO(4) symmetry, collective modes, supersolid and ferromagnetism in the Hubbard model with bond-charge interaction L. Colonescu, J. Berthon and R. Suryanarayanan Insulator-superconductor transition in Tmp4Prp,Ba,Cu,0, by iso-valent substitution at Ba site L. Ba, L. Zhang and X. Wang The influence of surface grown Ag particle on the optical absorption of Ag/SiO, nanocomposite film S. Gongalves, R. Ramirez and M. Kiwi Molecular dynamics study of physisorbed xenon on Al(1 1 0) R. B. Prabhu, V. N. Kamat Dalal, Resistivity and thermopower of the antiferromagnetic system J. B. C. Efrem Desa and S. N. Bhatia MnTe,Se;_, Erratum Keywords Vol. 104, Nos 1-12 Contents DECEMBER VOLUME 104, NUMBER 10 (Published 10 November 1997) CONTENTS Publisher’s Announcement S. Sadewasser, C. Looney, J. S. Schilling, Dependence of 7. on _ hydrostatic pressure in f”- J. A. Schlueter, J. M. Williams, P. G. Nixon, (ET),SF,CH,CF,SO, and x-(ET),Cu(NCS), R. W. Winter and G. L. Gard Y. Zhang, B. Fluegel, A. Mascarenhas, J. F. Geisz, Low-temperature birefringence in ordered GalnP alloy studied by J. M. Olson, F. Alsina and A. Duda polarized transmission spectroscopy I. S. Suzuki, M. Suzuki, H. Sato and T. Enoki Successive magnetic phase transitions in Cu,Co,_.Cl,-FeCl, GBICs Z.-x. Ma, X.-b. Liao, J. He, G.-z. Yue, Strong visible photoluminescence from amorphous silicon grains Y.-q. Wang, W.-c. Cheng and G.-l. Kong in a-SiO,: H films B. Zhang, Y. Ma, M. Xu, K. Wu, C. Huang, Planar organic microcavity of Eu-chelate film with metal mirrors Y. Zhao, D. Zhuo, L. Yin and X. Zhao K. ProkeS, M. DiviS, V. Sechovsky, P. Svoboda, Electronic structure of URhSi M. Richter, K. H. J. Buschow and F. R. de Boer S. Tong, X.-n. Liu, T. Gao, X.-m. Bao, Y. Chang, Temperature dependence of visible photoluminescence from W.-z. Shen and W.-g. Tang PECVD nanocrystallites embedded in amorphous silicon films H. Schober and B. Renker Spectroscopic evidence for dimer formation in Rb,Cj) compounds J. Yang, B. Cui, W. Mao, X. Pei and Y. Yang Theoretical calculation on the magnetocrystalline anisotropy of NdFeiosV)5N, E. Ya. Sherman Spin—phonon coupling in CuO, layers: asymmetric crystal field approach A. Romano, C. Noce and R. Citro Valence transition in the extended Anderson lattice model L. Zheng and S. Das Sarma Unusual temperature dependent resistivity of a semiconductor quantum wire F. Aguilera-Granja, S. Bouarab, A. Vega, Nonmetal—metal transition in Ni clusters J. A. Alonso and J. M. Montejano-Carrizales Erratum Keywords DECEMBER VOLUME 104, NUMBER 11 (Published 12 November 1997) CONTENTS Publisher’s Announcement G. Mohs, T. Aoki, M. Nagai, R. Shimano, Failure of the modal gain model in a GaN based laser diode M. Kuwata-Gonokami and S. Nakamura M. Lohmann, A. Loidl, M. Klemm, G. Obermeier ESR study of the spin-Peierls transition in NaV,O, and S. Horn J. H. Kim and H. K. Baik Structural and optical properties of amorphous hydrogenated carbon nitride films prepared by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition G. D. Mukherjee, C. Bansal and A. Chatterjee Configurational entropy and the stability limit of a glass C. Hess, C. Schlenker, G. Bonfait, T. Ohm, CDW state and superconductivity in the quasi-two-dimensional C. Paulsen, D. Dumas, Z. Teweldemedhin, monophosphate tungsten bronze P,W ,,O<9 M. Greenblatt, J. Marcus and M. Almeida Xx Vol . 104, Nos 1—12 Contents P. Hari, P. C. Taylor, A. Kleinhammes, 669 Asymmetry in the local structural order in arsenic chalcogenide P. L. Kuhns, W. G. Moulton and N. S. Sullivan glasses: high field NMR in crystalline and glassy As,Se, T. Hirata and T. Yokokawa 673 Variable-temperature X-ray diffraction of the ferroelectric transition in Bi,Ti,O,, B. Y. Tong 679 Scattering states of the Sech-squared potential A. Watterich, L. A. Kappers and O. R. Gilliam 683 Paramagnetic centers in ZnWO, : Tm single crystals B.-L. Gu, Y. Guo, W. Duan and S. Xiong Intrasubband electron-phonon scattering in doped thin-layer inserted quantum well A. K. Ghosh, S. K. Bandyopadhyay, P. Barat, Complex susceptibility of o-irradiated (Bi, Pb)-2 2 2 3 at low field P. Sen and A. N. Basu amplitude: the role of intergranular pinning potential Y. J. Feng, Y. Q. Shen, J. Mygind, N. F. Pedersen Microwave dynamics and electromagnetic properties of and P. H. Wu YBa,Cu,0, step-edge junctions on MgO substrates H. Mizoguchi, H. Kawazoe, H. 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