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Kinds of Solidi Selected AbstractsContents: (Phys. Status Solidi A 6/2010)PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (A) APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE, Issue 6 2010Article first published online: 14 JUN 2010 First page of article [source] Inside Back Cover (Phys. Status Solidi A 5/2010)PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (A) APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE, Issue 5 2010J. H. Leach The Feature Article by Morkoç and co-workers (pp. 1091,1100) centers around the not so intuitive phenomena in two types of GaN based devices, namely InGaN based LEDs and InAlN barrier GaN heterojunction FETs. In terms of the LEDs, the paper uncovers that the quantum efficiency degradation observed at high current injection levels is not necessarily of Auger recombination origin. Furthermore, nearly similar behavior of LEDs on c-plane and mplane suggests that the main driving force for the efficiency degradation is not polarization induced field either. The data along with their interpretation should set the stage for an accurate physics- based model to be developed. In terms of the FETs, the authors show that there is an optimum sheet density, which depends on drain bias or the electric field in the channel, at which the LO phonon lifetime is shortest, the velocity is highest, and the device degradation is least. The average optimum density is near 7 × 1012 cm,2 which challenges the proverbial notion that the higher the sheet density the better it is. Another outcome of this discussion is that heat dissipation takes the route of hot electrons giving off heat to LO phonons which in turn give it to LA phonons when they decay. Naturally, the shortest LO phonon lifetime is best for heat removal and thus the devices are more reliable in addition to electrons traversing at the highest velocity. [source] Contents: (Phys. Status Solidi A 5/2010)PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (A) APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE, Issue 5 2010Article first published online: 14 MAY 2010 First page of article [source] Back Cover (Phys. Status Solidi A 4/2010)PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (A) APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE, Issue 4 2010Silvia Giudicatti In their Editor's Choice article on p. 935, Marabelli and coworkers present a study of plasmonic resonances in 2D planar periodic structures, which are constructed by colloidal lithography on gold/polymer surfaces. Strong interplay between plasmonic modes on both sample sides is found. The SEM image, top left on the back cover, shows the nanostructured gold/polymer surface: a residual polystyrene sphere from lithography is in the centre, whereas the top of acrylic acid pillars appear black. Reflectance from this surface passing through the glass substrate was investigated in a flowing cell, as depicted in the sketch on the right. Below, there is the map of angle dispersion of reflectance: lines represent the ideal plasmon polariton dispersion at the gold/glass and gold/air surfaces (solid lines) and the Wood anomalies (dashed lines). [source] Contents: (Phys. Status Solidi A 4/2010)PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (A) APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE, Issue 4 2010Article first published online: 15 APR 2010 First page of article [source] Contents: (Phys. Status Solidi A 3/2010)PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (A) APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE, Issue 3 2010Article first published online: 11 MAR 2010 First page of article [source] Contents: (Phys. Status Solidi A 1/2010)PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (A) APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE, Issue 1 2010Article first published online: 7 JAN 2010 First page of article [source] Contents: (Phys. Status Solidi A 12/2009)PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (A) APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE, Issue 12 2009Article first published online: 8 DEC 200 First page of article [source] Contents: (Phys. Status Solidi A 11/2009)PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (A) APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE, Issue 11 2009Article first published online: 6 NOV 200 First page of article [source] Phys. Status Solidi A 206/10PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (A) APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE, Issue 10 2009Article first published online: 1 OCT 200 No abstract is available for this article. [source] ChemInform Abstract: Solidus and Liquidus of Plutonium and Uranium Mixed Oxide.CHEMINFORM, Issue 20 2008Masato Kato Abstract ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 200 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a "Full Text" option. The original article is trackable via the "References" option. [source] Sale, price and valuation in Galicia and Castile,León in the tenth centuryEARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE, Issue 2 2002Wendy Davies The number of sale transactions recorded by northern Spanish charters of the tenth century is very striking, especially in the 930s to 960s. A record of price paid was a consistent element of such documents, although words used to express price varied from silver solidi to goats, shirts and grain. Valuations, in solidi and in other units of account such as cattle, were often stated when objects were used as payment. While it looks as if some silver was really used in deals in urban León and its hinterland, using pieces of silver called argenzos, argenteos etc., elsewhere this was rare. Comparing the transactions in the three very different monastic collections of Celanova in the north,west, Sahagún in the central meseta and Cardeña in the foothills of the sierras in the north,east, regional difference is also striking. Sahagún is notable for the volume and early date of its sales and for increasing use of silver,based expressions of price and value. Round Celanova, by contrast, although there were also many sales, people used several modes of valuation simultaneously, but metal,based notions very rarely. Round Cardeña, close to urban Burgos, far fewer sales are recorded, and they come later in the century, but silver,based notions of value were the only ones used. This latter sub,urban context seems to have been much less commercially active than that of León and Sahagún, with exchange by gift and countergift a more prominent characteristic. [source] Preface: phys. stat. sol. (a) 205/8PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (A) APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE, Issue 8 2008Guest Editor Elvira Fortunato Advances in Transparent Electronics: From Materials to Devices II This issue of physica status solidi contains selected papers presented in Symposium I "Advances in Transparent Electronics: From Materials to Devices II" at the European Materials Research Society Spring Meeting held in Strasbourg, France, from 28 May to 1 June 2007. This was the second meeting in Europe covering this topic. It was attended by scientists from 33 different countries, with special emphasis to the Republic of South Korea and Japan (20% and 10%, respectively, of the total of papers presented). The symposium programme consisted of 9 invited talks, 45 oral presentations and 122 poster presentations, in total 176 contributions, from which 60 were selected for publication in the proceedings, representing nearly 35% of the submitted communications. Topics ranging from the fundamental understanding of physical phenomena to materials and devices have been covered, with special emphasis on the following ones: ,,Materials and processing for transparent electronics ,,Characterization and modelling ,,New devices (nano, micro and macro) ,,New applications The success of this symposium was the result of the contributions of many dedicated people. It is a pleasure for me to thank the symposium organizers (H. Hosono, Japan, J. Wager, USA, G. Kiriakidis, Greece, and S. Y. Lee, Korea) for their availability and help during the preparation and follow up of this symposium as well as all the individual referees, who donated their time to help making this a successful and scientific strong contribution for the international community on transparent electronics. I also would like to thank the two voluntary symposium assistants (P. Barquinha and G. Gonçalo) who helped before, during and after the symposium. Since the work is not limited to what was done before and during the conference, I also have to emphasize a detailed, delicate and long work that has been done after the conference was over, in close cooperation with Prof. Martin Stutzmann and Dr. Stefan Hildebrandt, for the edition of this special issue. I also would like to thank the E-MRS staff (C. Kocher and S. Schoeffter) for the unlimited time, energy and professionalism given for the success of this symposium. Without their assistance the symposium would not have been the success that it was. I also gratefully acknowledge the financial support of our main sponsors who made the symposium possible: ,,FCT-UNL, Portugal ,,Hewlett-Packard, Ireland ,,Horiba Jobin Yvon, France ,,Canon, Japan [source] Optimization of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs for high frequency operationPHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (A) APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE, Issue 7 2006T. Palacios In the article [1] featured at Editor's Choice, the structure and processing of AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) have been optimized for maximum small signal gain at high frequencies. The cover picture combines the sample structure , shown schematically and in a scanning electron microscopy image , with the band diagram of the sample with an InGaN back-barrier used to increase the electron confinement in comparison to a standard HEMT. The first author, Tomás Palacios, is currently a Project Scientist at UCSB. His research interest focuses on the search of novel GaN-based transistors for mm-wave applications and biological sensors. He is one of the winners of the physica status solidi Young Researcher Awards for his outstanding presentation at the 6th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors held in Bremen, Germany, in 2005. Further articles from ICNS-6 will also be published in phys. stat. sol. (b) 243, No. 7 (2006) and phys. stat. sol. (c) 3, No. 6 (2006). The present issue of phys. stat. sol. (a) as well as phys. stat. sol. (c) 3, No. 5 (2006) also contain papers presented at the International Conference on Nanoscale Magnetism (ICNM-2005) in Gebze, Turkey. [source] Special issue: Physics of Organic SemiconductorsPHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (A) APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE, Issue 6 2004Wolfgang Brütting This special issue of physica status solidi (a) gives an overview of our present-day knowledge of the physics behind organic semiconductor devices, ranging from the growth of organic layers and crystals, their electronic properties at interfaces, their photophysics and electrical transport properties to the application in organic field-effect transistors, photovoltaic cells and organic light-emit-ting diodes. Guest Editor of the present issue is Wolfgang Brütting, professor at the University of Augsburg, where he leads a research group working on organic semiconductors, their physical and materials properties, and the understanding of the basic processes in these materials and devices. The cover picture is an angular plot of the anisotropy of the charge carrier mobility , in the a,b plane of a rubrene single crystal, probed on an elastomeric rubber stamp field-effect transistor device. The black and red squares correspond to the values of , extracted from the linear and saturation regimes of the transistor operation, respectively. More information can be found in the Review Article by R. W. I. de Boer et al. [1]. [source] 6th International Workshop on Expert Evaluation & Control of Compound Semiconductor Materials & TechnologiesPHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (A) APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE, Issue 1 2003Bálint P The EXMATEC workshops are a series of biannial conferences with the aim to bring together research and development specialists involved in compound semiconductor material physics, chemistry, process technology, characterization and device fabrication. EXMATEC 2002 is the continuation of successful meetings, previously held in Lyon, Parma, Freiburg, Cardiff and Heraklion. The central topics were development, improvement and application of new and advanced methods in the fabrication and evaluation of compound semiconductor materials and structures to develop understanding of the interrelationship between structural, electrical and other material properties and device characteristics, such as performance, reliability, reproducibility, lifetime, yield, etc. The conference topics apply to all compound semiconductor materials (III,V, II,VI, IV,IV, II,IV,V2), related structures and processing steps (from substrate and epitaxial growth to complete devices) and cover instrumentation and characterization issues. The full Proceedings of EXMATEC 2002 are published in the second issue of the new journal series physica status solidi , conferences Vol. 0, No. 2 (2003). As one representative example of the topics presented at this conference, the cover picture of the present issue issue of phys. stat. sol. (a) shows the band scheme of a typical GaInAs/AlInAs superlattice quantum cascade laser, taken from the invited paper by Razeghi and Slivken [1]. [source] Preface: phys. stat. sol. (b) 245/3PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (B) BASIC SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 3 2008Christopher W. Smith This is the third Special Issue of physica status solidi (b) focusing on materials with a negative Poisson's ratio or other ,anomalous' physical properties. This issue contains selected papers from the First International Conference on Auxetics and Anomalous Systems held at the University of Exeter, UK, on 4,6 September 2006. Around 50 participants from all over the world as well as from a wide range of scientific and engineering disciplines contributed to what was a highly successful conference. This conference follows in the footsteps of two previous workshops held at the Mathematical Research and Conference Centre in B,dlewo near Pozna,, Poland, in 2004 and 2005 [1, 2]. The papers selected for this issue publish recent results obtained for ,anomalous systems' in experiment, theory and computer simulations. In the following we summarize very briefly their contents. Alderson and Coenen compare the performance of auxetic composites to similar systems with conventional positive Poisson's ratios. They find that there are indeed differences which appear to arise from the change of the overall Poisson's ratio of the composite, some beneficial like a rise in impact tolerance at low impact rates, and others deleterious such as the reduced tolerance at higher impact rates. This is one of the first investigations of possible applications for auxetic materials. The two papers by Gaspar and Koenders both examine the effects of disorder upon anomalous properties, especially negative Poisson's ratio. In the first one Gaspar demonstrates how a mean strain estimate fails to predict negative values of Poisson's ratio because of an inability to account for local fluctuations in elastic properties. For instance it is shown that the volume fraction of auxetic regions in an globally auxetic material (measured experimentally) are smaller than a mean strain homogenisation would require. Koenders and Gaspar explore the elastic properties, and especially Poisson's ratio, of a heterogeneous 2D network of bending beams. They predict auxetic behaviour arising from localised disorder in the packing, and therefore effective locally aggregated elastic properties of the beams. In the three articles by Gatt et al. and Grima et al. models based on simple geometry are used to explain the behaviour of seemingly disparate systems, i.e. 2D honeycombs systems and zeolite SiO2 networks. Two papers concerning honeycombs demonstrate relationships between elastic properties and structure and the bounds for auxetic behaviour. The paper concerning the zeolite Natrolite uses numerical force field based energy minimisation methods to simulate the response of this particular zeolite to applied forces and then simplifies the predicted properties even further by considering structural units as rigid 2D polyhedra linked by flexible hinges. In a similar vein, though using a different approach and concerning a very different form of matter, Heyes shows how the heterogeneity in an assembly of particles in a liquid can affect the elastic properties of a liquid and notably the infinite frequency Poisson's ratio. Heyes uses the Molecular Dynamics approach to simulate a Lennard,Jones fluid under various pressures, notably comparing behaviour under positive and negative pressures. In their first paper Jasiukiewicz and co-authors derive elastic constants of 2D crystals for all four classes of 2D crystalline solids: hexagonal (isotropic), quadratic, rectangular, and oblique systems. In their second paper they demonstrate conditions required for auxetic behaviour of 2D crystals. Auxetic solids are further divided into those with some negative Poisson's ratios (auxetic), all negative Poisson's ratios (completely auxetic) and no negative Poisson's ratios (non-auxetic). Lakes and Wojciechowski consider counterintuitive properties of matter, like negative compressibility, negative Poisson's ratio, negative thermal expansion, negative specific heat, and negative pressure. They present and interpret experimental observations of negative bulk modulus in pre-strained foams. They propose also a constrained microscopic model which exhibits negative compressibility. Finally, they solve a very simple thermodynamic model with negative thermal expansion. Martin et al. take a long stride toward a real world application of auxetic materials with a wide ranging study starting with numerical modelling of a wingbox section to experimental testing in a wind tunnel. They show that an auxetic core in a wing box section can allow a passive aero-elastic response which can be tailored by careful design of the core so that camber, and thus drag, is reduced with increasing airspeed but without sacrificing structural integrity. Miller et al. consider another anomalous physical property, negative thermal expansivity, and its application in the form of particulate composites for amelioration of stresses arising from thermal mismatch. They show via experiments that particles with a negative coefficient of thermal expansion may be used as a composite reinforcer to reduce overall thermal expansion and behave according to the standard volume fraction based models. Narojczyk and Wojciechowski examine the effects of disorder upon the bulk elastic properties of 3D fcc soft sphere systems in terms of particle size. Systems, such as colloids, can be thought of in such terms. The study shows that higher order moments of probability distribution do not influence the bulk elastic properties much, but that lower moments such as the standard deviation of particle size influence the elastic properties greatly. The "hardness" of the particle interaction potential is also important in this context. In general, it is shown that the effect of increasing polydispersity is to increase the Poisson's ratio, except the [110] [10] directions. Scarpa and Malischewsky in their paper on Rayleigh waves in auxetic materials show how the Rayleigh wave speed is affected by the Poisson's ratio. The behaviour is complex and depends upon the homogeneity within the material, for instance slowing with decreasing Poisson's ratio in isotropic solids, but showing the reverse trend and increased sensitivity to Poisson's ratio in laminate composites. Scarpa et al. explore the buckling behaviour of auxetic tubes via three types of model, a simple beam mechanics and Eulerian buckling model, a 3D linear elastic FE model and a bespoke non-linear continuum model. The more sophisticated models provide increasing insight into the buckling behaviour though the simple beam model predicts reasonably well in the pre-buckling linear region. Some unexpected and interesting behaviour is predicted by the continuum model as the Poisson's ratio approaches the isotropic limit of ,1, including increasing sensitivity to Poisson's ratio and rapid mode jumping between integer wave numbers. The paper by Shilko et al. presents an analysis of a particular kind of friction joint, a double lap joint, and explores the effects of altering the elastic properties of one component, in particular it's Poisson's ratio. The manuscript introduces the evolution of smart materials from monolithic materials, and the classification of composites exhibiting negative Poisson's ratios. The paper then presents the case of a double lap joint and performs a sensitivity type study, via a 2D FE model, of the effects of changing the elastic properties and degree of anisotropy of one section of the model on various parameters defining the limits of functionality of the joint. The main finding is that an enhanced shear modulus, via a negative Poisson's ratio, can endow such a friction joint with superior performance. Manufacturing of auxetic materials on a commercial scale has proved to be the largest obstacle to their fuller exploitation. The paper by Simkins et al. explores one route for post processing of auxetic polymers fibres produced by a conventional melt extrusion route. Simkins et al. showed that a post process thermal annealing treatment, with carefully optimised parameters, was able to even out otherwise inhomogenous auxetic properties, and moreover improve other elastic and fracture properties often sacrificed for auxetic behaviour. We gratefully acknowledge the support given by the sponsors of the conference, namely the EPSRC of the UK and Auxetic Technologies Ltd. (UK). We also thank the Scientific Committee, the Organising Committee, and all the participants of the conference. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [source] Scientific Highlights from the ,k Network: Towards Atomistic Materials DesignPHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (B) BASIC SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 11 2006P. H. Dederichs The ,k network aims at encompassing the whole community of European groups working in the area of ab - initio materials modelling, including very many small groups and isolated researchers. Historically, the activities started in the 1980s in Trieste with the workshop series entitled "Total Energies and Forces". Since then, it has operated on the European level in various forms, with funding from various EC/EU and ESF sources, beginning more than 10 years ago with the EC's Human Capital and Mobility Programme. In that time, ,k has done much to make Europe the leading area in the world for research in atomic-scale ab - initio computer simulation of all types of materials, their structures, properties, and processes. To a large extent, this has been done by nurturing scientific excellence and collaboration in what might be called "the ,k family". The ,k Network is presently organized around 15 topical working groups. Over the years, the ,k network organized three large scale conferences in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany (1996, 2000, 2005), attended by hundreds of scientists from all over the world. The next ,k Conference is to be organized in Berlin in 2010. These ,k Conferences are unique events fully dedicated to the ab - initio research. In addition, the network organizes a variety of meetings and topical workshops every year. The core activities of the ,k network involve editing every two months a ,k newsletter with typically more than 100 pages, which contains a "Scientific Highlight", announcements of conferences, workshops and vacant positions, news of various ESF and EU funded networks, including reports on workshops, and abstracts of submitted papers. The ,k has its own web pages (http://psi-k.dl.ac.uk) which inform about the Network, its structure, and how to get involved in ,k activities. These web pages are also the repository of the ,k newsletters and Scientific Highlights and details about the ,k Workshops of the most recent years. The ,k mailing list contains about 1700 e-mail addresses from across the world, and all the important information about a variety of activities of the network is distributed across this list on a daily basis. The "Scientific Highlights" of the ,k newsletters reflect the scientific activities of the network and aim at presenting reviews and current developments in the field. This special issue of physica status solidi (b) gives a collection of some of the most recent Highlight contributions to the ,k newsletter. All manuscripts originally posted on the ,k server were peer-reviewed by two referees and accepted according to the standards of pss. They are published here partly in revised or updated version. We hope that the readership of the journal will benefit from the quality of the research they report on and the high level of the presentations. [source] The European Conference Physics of Magnetism (PM'05) Pozna,, Poland, 24,27 June 2005PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (B) BASIC SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 3 2006B. Idzikowski Papers presented at The European Conference Physics of Magnetism (PM'05) were published in the January 2006 issues of physica status solidi (b) and (c) [1, 2]. Please find the Preface by the Guest Editors of the Proceedings as well as the listings of Conference Chairs, Committees and Sponsors, which were unintentionally omitted from the journals, reprinted here. [source] Optical, electrical and structural characterization of CuInSe2 thin filmsPHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (B) BASIC SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 9 2005C. Calderón The present issue of physica status solidi (b) comprises papers presented at the XVII Latin American Symposium on Solid State Physics (SLAFES 2004) in Havana, Cuba, 6,9 December 2004. Further papers from this conference are published in phys. stat. sol. (c) 2, No. 10 (2005). The cover picture refers to the article [1] on polycrystalline CuInSe2 films by Clara Calderón et al. and shows the crystal structure of CuInSe2 (right) and that of the In-rich phase CuIn3Se5 (left) which were used for the simulation and analysis of the X-ray diffraction spectra. Clara Lilia Calderón Triana is teacher at the Solar Cells Laboratory of Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá where she has been working on solar cells and semiconductor materials since 1995. In particular, she is fabricating thin film solar cells based on CuInSe2 and Cu(In,Ga)Se2. At SLAFES 2004, Clara Calderón received the physica status solidi Young Researcher Award for her second presentation entitled "Study of electrical transport properties of ZnO thin films used as front contact of solar cells" [2] which is published as Editor's Choice of this issue. (© 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [source] Quasi-localized low-frequency vibrational modes of disordered solids: Study by single-molecule spectroscopyPHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (B) BASIC SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 15 2004A. V. Naumov Editor's Choice of this issue of physica status solidi (b) is the article [1] by Andrei V. Naumov et al. This paper is Part II (Part I see [2]) of a study on elementary excitations in glasses, presented at the 11th International Conference on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter, St. Petersburg, 25,30 July 2004. For his outstanding talk, Naumov received the new physica status solidi Young Researcher Award which was bestowed for the first time at this conference. The cover picture is a sketch of a glass with a single impurity molecule and one hypothetical quasi-localized vibrational mode. The broadening and shift of the chromophore spectral line are caused by the interaction with this mode. Andrei V. Naumov is senior scientific researcher and deputy head of the Molecular Spectroscopy Department of the Institute of Spectroscopy, Troitsk. His main research interests are experimental and theoretical studies of low-temperature dynamics of amorphous solids (glasses, polymers etc.) via high resolution laser selective spectroscopy techniques. The second Editor's Choice is an article by E. A. Eliseev and M. D. Glinchuk [3]. Eugene A. Eliseev is scientific researcher at the Frantsevich Institute for Problems of Materials Science of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kiev. His research areas are the theory of size and correlation effects in ferroelectric materials as well as modelling of disordered ferroelectrics properties. (© 2004 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [source] Hydrostatic pressure effects on the structural and electronic properties of carbon nanotubesPHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (B) BASIC SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 14 2004Rodrigo B. Capaz This issue's Editor's Choice [1] is a theoretical study of the properties of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) under hydro-static pressure. The cover picture is a snapshot of room-temperature molecular dynamics simulations of a chiral (8,7) SWNT at a pressure of 4 GPa, where a symmetry-breaking collapse of the tube into a flat shape is observed. This paper is an invited presentation from the 11th Interna-tional Conference on High Pressure Semiconductor Physics (HPSP-11), held in Berkeley, California, USA, 2,5 August 2004. The Proceedings of this conference series have been published for the fifth time in physica status solidi (b). The first author, Rodrigo Barbosa Capaz, is Associate Professor of Physics at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and works on electronic properties and computer modeling of materials. [source] Nitrides as spintronic materialsPHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (B) BASIC SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 2 2003Tomasz Dietl The Guest Editors of the Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS-5), Hiroshi Amano and Takashi Udagawa, have nominated the invited presentation by Tomasz Dietl [1] as Editor's Choice of the present issue of physica status solidi (b). This paper is a progress report on spintronics-related issues in Mn-based III-nitrides as potential diluted magnetic semiconductors. The cover picture shows the computed values of the Curie temperature for various p-type III,V compounds containing 5% of Mn in the S = 5/2 high spin state and 3.5 × 1020 holes per cm3, predicting that TC should exceed room temperature in the Mn-based nitrides. Thomas Dietl is head of the Low-Temperature Physics Group and professor at the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is one of the most experienced researchers in the area of ferromagnetic semiconductors, spin-related phenomena and other current topics of semiconductor physics with many publications and invited talks at conferences and seminars world-wide. The full Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS-5) are published in physica status solidi (c) , conferences and critical reviews, Vol. 0, No. 7 (November 2003) (ISBN 3-527-40489-9). Conference papers can also be found in phys. stat. sol. (a) 200, No. 1 (2003). [source] Stripe fractionalization: the quantum spin nematic and the Abrikosov latticePHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (B) BASIC SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 2 2003J. Zaanen The cover picture of physica status solidi (b), taken from the Editor's Choice of this issue, shows a scheme of construction of the spin nematic ordered state and the topological interaction between spatially disconnected gauge defects. The gauge symmetry is broken by applying an external field B. The theory described in the paper [1] offers a potential explanation for recent observations of magnetic field induced antiferromagnetism in La1.9Sr0.1CuO4. The first author, Jan Zaanen, is Professor of Physics at the Instituut-Lorentz in Leiden where he works on quantum field theory in condensed matter physics, concentrating on problems in high- TC superconductivity, quantum magnetism, quantum liquid crystals, doped Mott insulators, and strongly correlated electron systems. This paper is an invited presentation from the European Conference Physics of Magnetism (PM'02), held in Pozna,, Poland, 1,5 July 2002. The proceedings of this conference are published in two parts: in the present issue of phys. stat. sol. (b) and in phys. stat. sol. (a) 196, No. 1 (2003). [source] Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on High Pressure Semiconductor Physics (HPSP-X)PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (B) BASIC SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 2 2003Ben MurdinArticle first published online: 30 JAN 200 The Tenth International Conference on High Pressure Semiconductor Physics (HPSP-X) was held as a satellite meeting of the International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors in Guildford from 5 to 8 August 2002. It brought together scientists and engineers who use high pressure to study the science and technology of semiconductors. The HPSP-X conference reviewed the latest issues and developments in the physics of both bulk and low-dimensional semiconductor materials and devices under pressure. It covered all aspects of fundamental and applied high-pressure semiconductor research, including experimental and theoretical investigations under isotropic or anisotropic stress conditions. Topics such as electronic structures, vibrational and optical properties, transport phenomena, defect states, phase transitions, and novel materials or structures are included in this issue. Following the meetings HPSP-VII in Schwäbisch Gmünd, phys. stat. sol. (b) 198, No. 1 (1996); HPSP-VIII in Thessaloniki, phys. stat. sol. (b) 211, No. 1 (1998), and HPSP-IX in Sapporo, phys. stat. sol. (b) 223, No. 1/2 (2001), the proceedings of this successful conference series are published in physica status solidi for the fourth time. [source] Fast near-infra-red spectroscopic Mueller matrix ellipsometer based on ferroelectric liquid crystal retardersPHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (C) - CURRENT TOPICS IN SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 5 2008J. Ladstein The cover picture of this issue of physica status solidi (c) has been taken from the article [1]. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [source] Effect of oxygen plasma treatment on the tribological properties of Si-DLC coatingsPHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (C) - CURRENT TOPICS IN SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 4 2008J. Choi The cover picture of this issue of physica status solidi (c) has been taken from the article [1]. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [source] Many electron theory of 1/f -noise in hopping conductivityPHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (C) - CURRENT TOPICS IN SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 3 2008Alexander L. Burin The cover picture of this issue of physica status solidi (c) has been taken from the article [1]. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [source] Current status and future of magnetic heads for HDDPHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (C) - CURRENT TOPICS IN SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 12 2007K. Terunuma The cover picture of this issue of physica status solidi (c) has been taken from the article [1]. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [source] Optical properties of silver nanoparticlesPHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI (C) - CURRENT TOPICS IN SOLID STATE PHYSICS, Issue 11 2007A. L. González The cover picture of this issue of physica status solidi (c) has been taken from the article [1]. [source] | ||||||||||||||||