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=~ Volume 312, Numbers 1—2, 14 January 1998 Contents Letters Effect of Xe* bombardment on the formation of highly oriented rutile-type titanium oxide films F. Zhang, Z. Zheng, Y. Chen, Y. Mao and X. Liu An analysis of Ag/AI,O, angular selective films by X-ray reflectivity S. Dligatch, R.W. Cheary and G.B. Smith Low temperature growth of epitaxial La, ;Sry ;CoO, films on (100)SrTiO, by pulsed laser deposition K.H. Wong, W. Wu, P.W. Chan and J.T. Cheung Stress calculations for carbon nanotubes T. Halicioglu Giant magnetoresistance in Ag /Co multilayers irradiated by excimer laser S. Luby, E. Majkova, M. Spasova, M. Jergel, R. Senderak, E. D’Anna, A. Luches, M. Martino, M. Brunel and I.M. Dmitrenko In situ AFM observation of heterogeneous growth of adsorbed film on cleaved mica surface B. Li, M. Fujii, K. Fukada, T. Kato and T. Seimiya Effect of H, and N, in the remote plasma enhanced metal organic chemical vapor deposition of TiN from tetrakis-diethyl-amido- titanium J.-Y. Yun and S.-W. Rhee Control of the YSZ biaxial alignment on polycrystalline Ni—Cr substrates by ion beam selective resputtering Y.J. Mao, B.Y. Jiang, C.X. Ren, F. Zhang, X.H. Liu and S.C. Zou Synthesis and Characterization Structural and electrical properties of Ni—Co films dc-biased plasma-sputter-deposited on MgO(001) T. Ohbuchi, M. Ishino, K. Makihara, H. Qiu, M. Hashimoto, A. Barna and P.B. Barna Sol—gel-derived c-axis oriented ZnO thin films D. Bao, H. Gu and A. Kuang Preparation of epitaxial PbTiO, thin films by pulsed laser deposition Y.M. Kang, S.C. Bae, J.K. Ku and S. Baik Characterization of r.f.-sputtered iron oxide films for modeling passive films T. Stenberg, P. Vuoristo, J. Kerainen, T. Mantyla, M. Biichler, S. Virtanen, P. Schmuki and H. Bohni Near infrared optical properties of laser ablated VO, thin films by ellipsometry M. Nagashima and H. Wada Density and elastic constants of hot-filament-deposited polycrystalline diamond films: methane concentration dependence R. Kuschnereit, P. Hess, D. Albert and W. Kulisch Study of ultra-thin hydrogen silsesquioxane films using X-ray reflectivity W.-L. Wu and H.-C. Liou On the formation of nonequilibrium A15 crystal structure chromium thin films by sputter deposition J.P. Chu, J.W. Chang, P.Y. Lee, J.K. Wu and J.Y. Wang Carbon nitride films incorporated with metal by rf plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition J.L. He and W.L. Chang Structure and crystallization of Sb—Se films prepared by vacuum evaporation method C. Kaito, T. Fujita, T. Kimura, K. Hanamoto, N. Suzuki, S. Kimura and Y. Saito Elsevier Science S.A. Chemical vapour deposition of BC,N films and their laser-induced etching with SK, C. Popov, K. Saito, B. Ivanov, Y. Koga, S. Fujiwara and V. Shanov Growth of 8H polytype of diamond using cyclic growth /etch oxy-acetylene flame setup R. Kapil, B.R. Mehta and V.D. Vankar Growth and properties of aluminium antimonide films produced by hot wall epitaxy on single-crystal KCI T. Singh and R.K. Bedi X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and spectral transmittance study of stoichiometry in sputtered vanadium oxide films M.G. Krishna, Y. Debauge and A.K. Bhattacharya Formation of polysilane film by laser CVD A. Watanabe, T. Kawato, M. Matsuda, M. Fuyjitsuka and O. Ito Control of preferred orientation in sol—gel lead-zirconate-titanate film on Pt/Ti/glass substrate C.J. Kim, W.J. Lee and K. No Preparation of Ta/Mo structure by using RF—DC coupled magnetron sputtering T. Tanaka and K. Kawabata Non-catalytic displacement plating (NCDP) of photosensitive semiconducting thin films M. Kumar, M.K. Sharan and M. Sharon Structure of plasma-deposited amorphous hydrogenated boron—carbon thin films A. Annen, M. Saf, R. Beckmann, A. Von Keudell and W. Jacob Pulsed laser deposition of solid-solution films using segmented targets H.-M. Christen, D.P. Norton, L.A. Géa and L.A. Boatner Spectroscopic ellipsometry studies of tetrahedral amorphous carbon prepared by filtered cathodic vacuum arc technique S. Xu, L.K. Cheah and B.K. Tay Effect of sulfur doping on electrical conductivity of a-Si:H R.M. Mehra, Jasmina, P.C. Mathur and P.C. Taylor 248 nm laser interaction studies on LaF,;/MgF, optical coatings by cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy Zs. Czigany, M. Adamik and N. Kaiser Metallurgical, Protective and Hard Layers TiN hard coating prepared by sputter ion plating system with facing target sputtering source and RF discharge C.-H. Park, Y.-M. Sung and W.-G. Lee Composition, binding states, structure, and morphology of the corrosion layer of an oxidized Tig 4, Aly 54N film A. Vou Ricotnoten, &. Cremer, M. Witthaut, R. Dommnick and D. Neuschiitz. .. .. 2... 6 6 6 cere mrmie ei » hee The reactant depletion effect on chemically vapor deposited SiC films with pressure and gas ambient H.-S. Kim and D.-J. Choi Mechanics and Nanomechanics of Thin Layers Effect of boron diffusion doping of silicon on the micromechanical and luminescent properties of porous layers V.A. Makara, O.V. Vakulenko, O.1. Dacenko, V.M. Kravchenko, T.V. Ostapchuk, O.V. Rudenko, M.S. Boltovets and V.O. Fesunenko Mechanical stability of DLC films on metallic substrates: Part I—Film structure and residual stress levels X.L. Peng and T.W. Clyne Mechanical stability of DLC films on metallic substrates. Part 1I—Interfacial toughness, debonding and blistering X.L. Peng and T.W. Clyne Ferroelectric properties of crystalline oriented Pb(Zr,Ti)O, thin films prepared by sol-gel technique E.G. Lee, J.S. Park and J.G. Lee Mechanical stress in micromachined components caused by humidity-induced in-plane expansion of thin polymer films R. Buchhold, A. Nakladal, G. Gerlach, K. Sahre and K.-J. Eichhorn Simulation of Berkovich nanoindentation experiments on thin films using finite element method M. Lichinchi, C. Lenardi, J. Haupt and R. Vitali Ferroelectric domains in epitaxial PbTiO, and BaTiO, thin films on MgO(100) S. Kim, Y. Park, Y. Kang, W. Park, S. Baik and A.L. Gruverman Electron transport in porous silicon R.G. Mathur, Vivechana, R.M. Mehra, P.C. Mathur and V.K. Jain Metal-organic chemical vapor deposition of aluminum from dimethylethylamine alane J.-H. Yun, B.-Y. Kim and S.-W. Rhee Electronics, Optics and Opto-electronics Normal incidence n-type GaAs /AI, Ga,_ As quantum well infrared photodetector G.L. Luo, Q. Huang and J.M. Zhou Annealing effects on opto—electronic properties of sputtered and thermally evaporated indium-—tin-oxide films D.V. Morgan, Y.H. Aliyu, R.W. Bunce and A. Salehi Electrical and photovoltaic characteristics of poly-emitter solar cells A.V.N. Tilak and K.N. Bhat Magnetics and Magneto-optics Reaction field approximation for ferromagnetic Ising thin films V. Ilkovié Superconductivity Photoluminescence from InAs quantum dots on GaAs(100) W.-q. Cheng, X.-g. Xie, Z.Y. Zhong, L.-h. Cai, Q. Huang and J.-m. Zhou Studies on preparation of ultra-thin films of precursor polymer of poly( p-phenylenevinylene) via Langmuir-Blodgett technique Y.K. Kim, K.S. Kim, W.H. Kang, S.S. Yang and B.C. Sohn Langmuir-—Blodgett, Biological and Related Films Electric field induced molecular reorientation in stilbazolium salt Langmuir—Blodgett monolayers J. Xu, X. Lu, G. Zhou and Z. Zhang On the deposition of Langmuir—Blodgett films of Q-state CdS nanoparticles through electrostatic immobilization at the air—water interface K.S. Mayya, V. Patil, P.M. Kumar and M. Sastry Optical and electrical properties of bacteriorhodopsin Langmuir—Blodgett films H.H. Weetall and L.A. Samuelson Improvement of X-ray powder-diffraction patterns of Salmonella minnesota deep rough mutant bacterial lipopolysaccharide induced by heating plus hydration P.-J. Koch, M. Kastowsky, H. Bradaczek and K. Brandenburg Thin Film Devices, Sensors and Actuators Optical emission spectroscopy study of a radio-frequency magnetron discharge used for the fabrication of X-ray multilayer mirror M. Cilia, A. Yakshin, H. Trambly, B. Vidal and J. Bretagne Effect of electron irradiation on the photovoltaic characteristics of GaAs p—n junctions T.D. Dzhafarov, C.S. Ak¢iz and D. Oren Improved passivating Cr,O, scales for thin film high temperature PdCr strain gages S.E. Dyer, O.J. Gregory and J.D. Cooke Plasma chemistry model of DC magnetron reactive sputtering in Ar—O, gas mixtures L. Pekker Growth and characterisation of cadmium sulphide nanocrystals embedded in silicon dioxide films A.G. Rolo, L.G. Vieira, M.J.M. Gomes, J.L. Ribeiro, M.S. Belsley and M.P. Dos Santos InP monolayers inserted in a GaP matrix studied by spectroscopic ellipsometry H. Schmidt, B. Rheinlander, V. Gottschalch and G. Wagner Thermal stability of crystalline thin films Q. Jiang, H.Y. Tong, D.T. Hsu, K. Okuyama and F.G. Shi The effect of post-growth cooling rate on the defect structure in MBE-grown buried layers of Si,_ Ge, on Si substrates M. Fatemi, P.E. Thompson, M.E. Twigg and J. 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