CONTENTS JANUARY VOLUME 97, NUMBER 1 1996 CONTENTS P. GaBmann, J. Boysen, G. Schmitz, F. Bartolucci 1 Growth of ultra-thin AIN(0001) films on NiAl(111) and R. Franchy S. Jorda Rabi splitting in cavity-embedded quantum wells under strong magnetic field M. V. B. Moreira, A. G. de Oliveira and M. A. Py Reduction of the effects of InGaAs alloy disorder by using InAs/GaAs_ superlattices as the conduction channel in modulation-doped heterostructures G. C. Xiong, B. Zhang, S. C. Wu, Z. X. Lu, Effects of film thickness on colossal magnetoresistance in J. F. Kang, G. J. Lian and D. S. Dai Pry 7Sty 3MnO, films G.S . Spencer, J. Menéndez, L. N. Pfeiffer and Laser-frequency dependence of Raman modes in GaAs—AlAs K. W. West superlattices P. Le Maguerés, L. OQuahab, N. Conan, Phase transitions in new BEDT-TTF k-phase salts with C. J. G6mez-Garcia, P. Delhaés, J. Even and hexacyanometalate anions [M(CN)¢M = Co(III) and Fe(IID] M. Bertault Y. M. Huang Laser light scattering characterization of particle size distribution in porous silicon Jiandi Zhang, D. N. McIlroy, P. A.D owben, The valence-band structure of La, _,Ca,MnO, S. H. Liou, R. F. Sabirianov and S. S. Jaswal Hyuk-Ryeol Park, Dong-Sun Oh, Jin Jang and Optical absorption spectra of a-Si:H films in TFT structure Hoe-Sup Soh V. Chernov, L. Galchenkov, S. Ivanov, Attenuation of surface acoustic waves by conducting P. Monceau, I. Pyataikin and M. Saint-Paul Langmuir-Blodgett films of charge-transfer complexes (Cy 6Hy3-TCNQ)o -(C,7H3s-DMTTF )o¢ A. V. Soldatov, N. A. Povahzynaja and Electronic structure of EuFeO,: X-ray absorption fine structure I. G. G. Shvejtzer analysis D. C. Reynolds, D. C. Look, B. Jogai and Ground and excited states associated with donor bound-excitons G. L. McCoy in high purity GaAs A. L. A. Fonseca and O. A. C. Nunes Magnon instability in bulk magnetic semiconductors in two laser fields under quantizing magnetic fields Y. Matsushita, R. Shiina and C. Ishii Spin-wave excitations of half-filled Kondo lattice model Erratum Instructions for Authors on the Preparation of Camera-ready Manuscripts Vii Keywords ili iV Vol. 97, Nos 1—12 Contents JANUARY VOLUME 97, NUMBER 2 1996 CONTENTS S. V. Goupalov and A. V. Kavokin 77 ~ Critical conditions for charged and neutral magnetic bipolaron formation in 1D, 2D and 3D systems G. M. Gusev, D. K. Maude, X. Kleber, J.C. Portal, 83 Universal conductance fluctuations in a two-dimensional Z. D. Kvon, N. T. Moshegov, L. V. Litvin and electron gas near filling factor v=% A. I. Toropov A. C. Bédi, I. Kirschner, R. Laiho, E. Lahderanta 89 Influence of the geometrical aspect-ratio on the surface impedance and T. Kokkomaki of Y-based superconducting samples A. Lanzara, N. L. Saini, T. Rossetti, A. Bianconi, 93 Temperature dependent local structure of the CuO, plane in the H. Oyanagi, H. Yamaguchi and Y. Maeno 1/8 doped La, ,75Bap ;»,;CuO, system A. Roy and A. K. Sood 97 Growth of CdS,Se,_, nanoparticles in glass matrix by isochronal thermal annealing: confined acoustic phonons and optical absorption studies H. Werheit, R. Schmechel, K. Kimura, R. Tamura 103 On the electronic properties of icosahedral quasicrystals and T. Lundstr6m O. Greim, J. Weber, Y. Baer and Y. Ziegler 109 Dispersive hydrogen diffusion in an illuminated undoped a-Si:H film as a function of annealing temperature H. Yorikawa and S. Muramatsu 115 A feature near the Fermi energy in metallic nanotubules C. S. Chu and C. S. Tang 119 Effects of a time-dependent transverse electric field on the quantum transport in narrow channels H. Matsumoto, K. Saito, M. Hasuo, S. Kono and 125 Revived interest on yellow-exciton series in Cu,O: an N. Nagasawa experimental aspect M. Jaime, M. Nunez Regueiro, 131 The influence of pressure on the superconducting properties of the M. A. Alario Franco, C. Chaillout, J. J. Capponi, (Cu,C, _ ,)Ba,Ca, _ ;Cu,O, family of HTSC materials A. Sulpice, J. L. Tholence, S. de Brion, P. Bordet, M. Marezio, J. Chenavas and B. Souletie A. S. Kaminskii, E. V. Lavrov, V. A. Karasyuk 137 Photoluminescence of excitons bound to the radiation damage and M. L. W. Thewalt defects B,,(1.1509 eV) in silicon T. K. Song, J. Kim and S.-I. Kwun 143 Size effects on the quantum paraelectric SrTiO, nanocrystals H. Zhang, Y. Zhao, Q. R. Feng, S. G. Wang, 149 A structure anomaly in YBa,Cu,0,_, and PrBa,Cu,0, _ , F. Ritter and W. Assmus polycrystals N. Takano, T. Kai, K. Shiiki and F. Terasaki 153 Effect of copious vacancies on magnetism of Pd Keywords JANUARY VOLUME 97, NUMBER 3 1996 CONTENTS I. V. Kavetskaya, N. N. Sibeldin and 157 Density and binding energy of magnetically stabilized V. A. Tsvetkov electron-hole liquid in indium antimonide O. V. Ivanov and E. G. Maksimov 163 Generalized variational approach to Kim-—Gordon electron gas theory for ionic crystals A. A. Sirenko, T. Ruf, N. N. Ledentsov, 169 Resonant spin-flip Raman scattering and localized exciton A. Yu. Egorov, P. S. Kop’ev, V. M. Ustinov and luminescence in submonolayer InAs—GaAs structures A. E. Zhukov Vol. 97, Nos 1—12 Contents Vv E. B. Nyeanchi, D. F. Brewer, T. E. Hargreaves, 175 Specific heat of single crystal Bap ,Ko ,BiO; at low temperatures N. E. Hussey, A. L. Thomson, S. R. Aghdaee and H. Y. Tang M. Itoh, T. Shimura, T. Hayashi and Y. Inaguma 179 Control of ferromagnetic transition temperature of La,Mn,O, by lithium insertion | V. V. Rotkin and R. A. Suris 183 Multipole excitations of two joint conducting spheres: application to C,;9 molecule R. Tomasiunas, Y. Pelant, D. Guennani, 187 Gain of optically excited ZnCdSe—ZnSe quantum wells J. B. Grun, R. Lévy, O. Briot, B. Gil, R. L. Aulombard and J. M. Sallése M. Dominguez, S. E. Lofland, S. M. Bhagat, 193 Are “single phase’ manganite samples truly homogeneous? A A. K. Raychaudhuri, H. L. Ju, T. Venkatesan and magnetic resonance study R. L. Greene F. Salam, J. V. Zanchetta, J. C. Giuntini, On the parameters of the free volume model S. Sh. Soulayman and J. Vanderschueren S. N. Piramanayagam, S. Prasad, A. K. Nigam, Onset of a different scattering mechanism with Fe and Mn G. Chandra, S. N. Shringi, N. Venkataramani and substitution in the magneto-transport of a-Cogy_ ,_ |Fe,Mn,B,,Sig R. Krishnan alloys | M. Mahel On the surface impedance of high-temperature superconducting cuprates—a single Josephson junction model M. B. Nardelli A density-functional study of van der Waals forces: He interaction with a semiconductor surface J. Lin, G. Q. Yao, J. Q. Duan and G. G. Qin Ultraviolet light emission from oxidized porous silicon Fa-jian Shi, Meng Ding and Tsung-han Lin Systematic variation of exchange coupling strength by electron correlation in magnetic multilayers J. Rubin, J. Bartolomé, M. Adams and The pressure dependence of the librational bands of the NH; K. Stroessner group in NH,ZnF, C. K. Subramanian, A. B. Kaiser, P. W. Gilberd, Conductivity and thermopower of blends of polyaniline with C.-J. Liu and B. Wessling insulating polymers (PETG and PMMA) Yu Chen, Rui-Fang Cai, Zu-En Huang, Xue Bai, ESR studies of C,o-modified poly(N-vinylcarbazole) Shi-Ming Chen and Xiao-Min Yan C. S. Chu and C. S. Tang Effects of a time-dependent transverse electric field on the quantum transport in narrow channels A. Mharchi, L. Stauffer, S. Saintenoy, C. Pirri, Surface atomic structure and symmetry properties of ErSi, 7 on P. Wetzel, D. Bolmont and G. Gewinner Si (111) Keywords JANUARY VOLUME 97, NUMBER 4 1996 CONTENTS A. Stesmans 255 Comparative analysis of the H, passivation of interface defects at the (100)Si/SiO, interface using electron spin resonance B. Koopmans, P. Etchegoin, P. Santos and 261 A quantitative study of the piezooptical activity in GaAs M. Cardona B. N. Onwuagba The electronic structure of AgF, AgCl and AgBr I. B. Talanina Polariton solitons in semiconductors: quantitative study S. N. Rashkeev, A. M. Zagoskin, R. I. Shekhter Soft disorder effects in the conductance quantization in quantum and G. Wendin point contacts: indirect backscattering statistics vi Vol. 97, Nos 1—12 Contents R. Kénenkamp, R. Engelhardt and R. Henninger 285 Photogeneration and carrier transport in Cg films V. N. Muthukumar and M. Sardar 289 Temperature dependent gap anisotropy from interlayer tunneling K. S. Bae, Y. J. Cho, S. D. Choi and J. Y. Ryu 293 Calculation of temperature dependence of cyclotron transition absorption line-widths in Ge and Si by a projection technique H. Z. Durusoy, L. R. Tagirov and M. R. Beasley 297 Anomalous magnetic diffraction of Bi,Sr,CaCu,0,/Ag/Pb SNS’ Josephson junctions Y. Huang, M. Okada, K. Tanaka and T. Yamabe 303 Estimation of Peierls-transition temperature in metallic carbon nanotube F. P. Milliken, C. P.U mbach and R. A. Webb Indications of a Luttinger liquid in the fractional quantum Hall regime K. Shim, D. N. Talwar and H.-J. Moh Electronic structure of ternary alloy semiconductors Author Index Nos 1-4 FEBRUARY VOLUME 97, NUMBER 5 1996 CONTENTS C. P. Herrero and R. Ramirez 319 Low-temperature delocalization of hydrogen in crystalline silicon O. Laborde, A. Sulpice, U. Gottlieb and R. Madar Magnetic susceptibility of semiconducting ReSi,7 5 A. S. de Arruda, N. Majlis, S. Selzer and Paramagnetic phase boundary of uniaxial antiferromagnets at low W. Figueiredo temperatures M. Basletic, B. Korin-Hamzi¢, A. Hamzic, Hall effect in the organic conductor (TMTSF),NO, S. Tomic¢ and J. M. Fabre Flux pinning in high J, Bi2212/Ag tape I. KuSevic¢, E. Babi¢, M. Ionescu, H. K. Liu and S. X. Dou K. B. Ozanyan, L. May, J. E. Nicholls, Light hole—heavy hole exciton crossover in strained ZnS J. H.C. Hogg, W. E. Hagston, B. Lunn and D. E. Ashenford M. Tokumoto, Y. S. Song, K. Tanaka, T. Sato and Irreversible and time-dependent magnetization in TDAE-C,, T. Yamabe R. G. Welch, J. Neamtu, M. S. Rogalski and Pulsed laser deposition of polycrystalline NiZn ferrite films S. B. Palmer V. Petukhov, V. Zhikharev, M. Ibragimova, Ion synthesis of thin granular ferromagnetic films in E. Zheglov, V. Bazarov and I. Khaibullin polymethylmethacrylate O. Ambacher, W. Rieger, P. Ansmann, Sub-bandgap absorption of gallium nitride determined by H. Angerer, T. D. Moustakas and M. Stutzmann photothermal deflection spectroscopy Zujin Shi, Xihuang Zhou, Zhaoxia Jin, High yield synthesis and growth mechanism of carbon nanotubes Zhennan Gu, Ji Wang, Sunqi Feng, Xiaolin Xu and Zhenquan Liu V.N. Osipov, L. I. Derkachenko, Yu. G. Nosov, Single crystals of 2223 phase in the Bi-Pb—Sr—Ca—Cu_-O system: V.N. Gurin, W. Jung and R. Miiller characterization and Knoop microhardness W. J. Fan, M. F. Li, T. C. Chong and J. B. Xia Band structure parameters of zinc-blende GaN, A‘.N and their alloys Ga, _,Al,N Lianwei Wang, Chenglu Lin, Xiang dong Chen, A clarification of optical transition of B-FeSi, film Shichang Zou, Linhong Qin, Hongtao Shi, W. Z. Shen and M. Ostling M. Gurioli, F. Bogani, A. Vinattieri, M. Colocci, 389 Resonant Rayleigh scattering in quantum well structures V. I. Belitsky, A. Cantarero and S. T. Pavlov Vol. 97, Nos 1—12 Contents Vil R. Rinaldi and C. C. Wilson 395 Crystal dynamics by neutron time-of-flight Laue diffraction in olivine up to 1573 K using simple frame methods A. Anedda, A. Serpi, I. I. Burlakov and Photoelectronic transitions in CuG;aIn,, ; Sx I. M. Tiginyanu Bing-bing Liu, Wen-guo Xu, Zi-yang Liu, High yield synthesis and extraction of La@C,, Hai-bin Yang, Ming-hui Li, Shu-ying Liu and Guang-tian Zou 1* O mata, H. Ikawa, S. Fijitsu, N. Ueda, Optical absorption spectra and the nature of conduction carriers of H. Hosono and H. Kawazoe hole-doped Sr, , ,La,_ FeO, B. V.R.M. Rao, P. K. Basu, J. C. Biswas, Large enhancement of photoluminescence from porous silicon >. K. Lahiri, S. Ghosh and D. N. Bose films by post-anodization treatment in boiling hydrogen peroxide d. R . Regnard, J. Juanhuix, C. Brizard, B. Dieny, Low temperature total electron yield EXAFS study of Co,Ag,_, B. Mevel, J. Mimault and O. Proux granular alloys V. K. Jain, V. Kapoor and V. Prakash Electron paramagnetic resonance of Mn** in Cs,M(SO,),.6H,O (M = Mg, Zn, Co, Ni) single crystals Q. Sun, X. G. Gong, Q. Q. Zheng and G. H. Wang The magnetic properties of 4d impurities in Ag,, clusters K. Edamoto, T. Anazawa, S. Tokumitsu, Surface induced state on ZrC(111): angle-resolved photoemission A. Tanabe, R. Sekine, E. Miyazaki, H. Kato and study . S. Otani Keywords FEBRUARY VOLUME 97, NUMBER 6 CONTENTS P. Fabeni, R. Linari, D. Mugnai, M. Nikl, 439 Direct measurements of relaxation time scales in Josephson G. P. Pazzi, A. Ranfagni, L. Salvini, R. Cristiano, junctions L. Frunzio, L. Lanzi, G. Ventura, M. Cetica and L. S. Schulman Be: Zhang, Lei Zhuang, Yong Lin, Zhongju Xia, Microcavity of organic semiconductor Yo.'g Ma, Xiaomin Ding, Shumin Wang, Dejian Zhou and Chunhui Huang Juhua Xu, Yuliang Li, Jingkui Yang and A novel way to synthesize C,, derivatives Cyy[C(NO,),],,Cl,, and Daoben Zhu their magnetic properties S. Kono, N. Naka, M. Hasuo, S. Saito, T. Suemoto Coherent optical processes of Is ortho-excitons in Cu,O by and N. Nagasawa two-photon excitations V. Bellani, E. Pérez, S. Zimmermann, L. Vina, Evolution of Fano resonances in two- and three-dimensional R. Hey and K. Ploog semiconductors with a magnetic field P. Stefariski, W. Suski, K. Wochowski and Ground state properties of the Tm** ion TmNi, Si, T. Mydlarz O. Kalogirou, V. Psycharis and D. Niarchos Magnetic phase transitions and magnetocrystalline anisotropy in Nd,(Fe,Ti).) and Nd;(Fe,Ti).N, A. Watterich, O. R. Gilliam, L. A. Kappers and ESR of W°*-H centers in y- or UV-irradiated ZnWO, single K. Raksanyi crystals doped by Li W. S. Hu, Z. G. Liu and D. Feng Low electric field induced (001) oriented growth of LiNbO, films by pulsed laser ablation B. D. Schrag, C. C. Hoellwarth, T. J. Goodwin, Structural characterization and magnetic ordering in P. Klavins and R. N. Shelton (La, _ ,Pr,)Ba,Cu,NbO, K. Kobayashi, H. Maruyama, T. [wazumi, Magnetic circular X-ray dichroism at Pd L,,-edges in Fe—Pd N. Kawamura and H. Yamazaki alloys Viii Vol. 97, Nos 1—12 Contents M. H. Kuok, L. S. Tan, Z. X. Shen, C. H. Huan 497 A Raman study of RbSnBr, and K. F. Mok R. Welter, G. Venturini, E. Ressouche and 503 Neutron diffraction studies of the CeFeSi-type CaMnSi and B. Malaman CaMnGe compounds A. Ercelebi and R. T. Senger 509 Strong coupling characterisation of quasi-1D polarons in cylindrical QW-wires D. A. W. Hutchinson, J. C. Inkson and J. M. Rowe 515 Finite-size studies of the FQHE-electron solid phase transition using a non-orthogonal localised vasis set G. Pozza, D. Ajo, M. Bettinelli, A. Speghini and 521 Absorption and luminescence spectroscopy of Nd** and Er** ina M. Casarin zinc borate glass Meixiang Wan, Suzhen Li and Junchao Li Magnetic properties of doped polyaniline with tetrachloferrate counter-ions I. Kamioka, K. G. Nakamura, T. Kawabe and An ellipsometric study of the effects of DC bias of the plasma M. Kitajima oxidation of silicon B. Lorenz, I. Orgzall, P. K. Dorhout, Pressure-induced phonon softening and _ structural phase C. C. Raymond and H. D. Hochheimer transitions in Cs,MoS, K. Esfarjani, K. Ohno, Y. Kawazoe and Effect of orientation on the band structure of C,,BN Bing-Lin Gu hetero-fullerenes in fcc solid phase V. Fleurov, M. Karpovski, M. Molotskii, Indirect tunneling in metal—insulator—metal junctions A. Palevski, A. Gladkikh and R. Kris i Keywords FEBRUARY VOLUME 97, NUMBER 7 CONTENTS S. Eisebitt, J. Liining, J.-E. Rubensson, 549 Quantum confinement effects in the soft X-ray fluorescence . van Buuren, S. N. Patitsas, T. Tiedje, M. Berger, spectra of porous silicon nanostructures . Arens-Fischer, S. Frohnhoff and W. Eberhardt . G. Maksimov and S. V. Shulga Nonadiabatic effects in optical phonon self-energy . Flandorfer, O. Sologub, C. Godart, K. Hiebl, On the cerium valence in ternary compounds CeMSb, and CeM’Bi;; . Leithe-Jasper, P. Rogl and H. Noél M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Pd, Ag, Au and M’ = Ni, Cu, Zn, Ag . Konsin, N. Kristoffel and P. Rubin Dependences of superconducting gaps on temperature and carrier concentration in a two-band model . Granasy, T. Kemény, G. Oszlanyi, G. Bortel, Enthalpies of phase transformations in the alkali fulleride RbC,, . Faigel, M. Tegze, S. Pekker, L. Forr6 and . Janossy H. J. Gao, Z. Q. Xue, Q. D. Wu and S. J. Pang 2D fractal pattern in fullerene doped polymer V. A. Nalimova, C. Bindra and J. E. Fischer Enhanced metastability of high-density Li intercalation in boron-doped graphite T. Goto, H. Tanaka, Meng-Yan Shen, S. Sasaki Diamagnetic shift of exciton level in ultra-thin Pbl, crystals and N. Miura A. V. Alexeev-Popov, S. A. Gevelyuk, Diffraction gratings on porous silicon Ya. O. Roizin, D. P. Savin and S. A. Kuchinsky G. Uimin, Y. Kuramoto and N. Fukushima Mode coupling effects on the quadrupolar ordering in CeB, G. C. Xiong, S. M. Bhagat, Q. Li, M. Dominguez, Anomalous magnetoconductivity of epitaxial Ndp 7Sryp ;MnO, and H. L. Ju, R. L. Greene, T. Venkatesan, J. M. Byers Pry 7Sty 3MnO, films and M. Rubinstein Vol. 97, Nos 1—12 Contents ix M. Sassetti, U. Weiss and B. Kramer 605 Photo-induced tunneling of a Luttinger liquid A. Akjouj, E. H. El Boudouti, B. Sylla, 611 Sharp resonant phonons in two adsorbed slabs B. Djafari-Rouhani and L. Dobrzynski R. Sarathi 617 Stochastic modelling and characterisation of electrical trees N. Toyosawa and K. Tanaka 623 Photocurrent enhancement in light-soaked As,S, glass Yu Yang, Dawei Gong, Xingliang Huang, 627 Photoabsorption and photoresponse behaviors of Si,_,Ge,/Si Xiaohong Shi, Ci Sheng and Xun Wang quantum wells K. Kadas, I. Laszl6 and S. Kugler 631 Atomic structure and electronic density of states around the Fermi level in amorphous carbon models L. Godfrey and J. Philip 635 Ultrasonic measurement of the elastic constants of LiKSO, between 300 and 370 K M. Cyrot 639 Localized excitations in the doped Mott insulator Huy Thien Cao and D. B. Tran Thoai 643 Effects of the electric field on energy levels in a surface quantum wire A. K. Dua, D. D. Pruthi, V. C. George, P. Raj, 647 Hydrogen flow rate dependence of diamond crystallite size, M. A. Rekha and A. P. Roy density and quality in “jet flow” HFCVD employing CH,-H,-O, gaseous mixture Keywords FEBRUARY VOLUME 97, NUMBER 8 1996 CONTENTS Y. C. Ratnakaram and S. Buddudu 651 Optical absorption spectra and laser analysis of Nd(III) in fluoroborate glasses D. Berling A. Del Vecchio, G. Leggieri, B. Loegel, 657 Superconducting properties of epitaxial laser ablated thin films A. Luches, A. Mehdaoui and L. Tapfer M. Langer, J. Schmalian, S. Grabowski and 663 Electronic theory for the transition from Fermi-liquid to non- K. H. Bennemann Fermi-liquid behavior in high-7,. superconductors J.-C. Bissey, R. Berger, P. Béziade, Nguyen-Ba 669 X-Band electron paramagnetic resonance of a quasi- Chanh, T. Maris, R. Zouari and A. Daoud bidimensional molecular composite [NH;-(CH,),-NH;]CuCl, I. M. Tiginyanu, V. V. Ursaki, V. A. Karavanskii, 675 Surface-related phonon mode in porous GaP V.N. Sokolov, Y. S. Raptis and E. Anastassakis A. A. Maznev and A. G. Every 679 Formation of surface phonon focusing caustics in crystals J. Sakurai, K. Hasegawa, A. A. Menovsky and 689 Thermoelectric power on single crystals of URu,Si, J. Schweizer Q. M. Zhang, Hoydoo You, M. L. Mulvihill and 693 An X-ray diffraction study of superlattice ordering in lead S. J. Jang magnesium niobate Ae Ran Lim, Sung Ho Choh and Min Su Jang 699 Domain structure of ferroelastic BiVO, studied by 2°°Bi NMR P. Sen, P. Aghamkar and P. K. Sen 703 Anomalous free induction decay linewidth analysis in solids using Maxwell—Bloch equation technique K. Chandrasekharan and V. S. Murty 709 ESR of TI** ions in alkali nitrates L. Calcagnile, D. Greco, P. V. Giugno, R. Rinaldi, 713 Excitons and electron-hole plasma phase in Zn,_,Cd,Se/ZnSe P. Prete, R. Cingolani, A. Franciosi, L. Sorba and multiple quantum well laser structures grown by molecular beam L. Vanzetti epitaxy X Vol. 97, Nos 1—12 Contents B. Chanda and T. K. Dey 719 Mixed state thermoelectric power of vanadium substituted 2223 (Bi, Pb) superconducting polycrystalline cuprates S. Pal and D. N. Bose 725 Growth, characterisation and electrical anisotropy in layered chalcogenides GaTe and InTe D. Berling, D. Bolmont, B. Loegel and 731 AC susceptibility of HTSC in the low field limit A. Mehdaoui Author Index Nos 1-8 MARCH VOLUME 97, NUMBER 9 1996 CONTENTS P. M. Paulus, H. B. Brom, Y. S. J. Veldhuizen and 737 The electronic properties of (methyl guanidinium)(Ni(dmit),],. A W. J. A. Maaskant two-orbital tight-binding analysis A. Ron, H. W. Yoon, M. D. Sturge, A. Manassen, 741 Thermodynamics of free trions in mixed type GaAs/AlAs E. Cohen and L. N. Pfeiffer quantum wells H. Hohl and E. Bucher 747 Pr, gSr, ,;Cu,O,: a model 2D variable range hopping conductor L. F. Mattheiss 751 Electronic structure of the two-legged ladder compound La, _,Sr,CuO, ; P. Schieffer, C. Krembel, M. C. Hanf, D. Bolmont 757 Initial growth and structure of Mn on Ag(100): formation of a and G. Gewinner superficial alloy C. L. Jones, A. Usher, M. Elliott, 763 Contactless detection of current breakdown of the quantum Hall W. G. Herrenden-Harker, A. Potts, R. Shepherd, effect T. S. Cheng and C. T. Foxon D. Das, S. N. Sharma, T. K. Bhattacharyya, 769 Deposition of boron-doped a-Si:H films by a novel combination S. Chattopadhyay, A. K. Barua and R. Banerjee of rf glow discharge technique and filament heating: enhancement of doping efficiency G. C. Xiong, B. Zhang, S.C. Wu, Z. X. Lu,G. J. 777 Transport property and magnetoresistance behavior in Lian and D. S. Dai Pr, _ ,Sr,MnO, films L. Francesio, P. Franzosi, G. Attolini and C. Pelosi 781 Lattice strain relaxation in GaAs/InP(0O1) and GaAs/GaP(001) heterostructures A. K. Dutta 785 Aggregation induced’ reabsorption of phenanthrene microcrystallites in uitrathin Langmuir—Blodgett films V. Gasparian, M. Ortuno, E. Cuevas and J. Ruiz 791 Dwell time for an asymmetric one-dimensional barrier Jae-Yel Yi, Ja-Yong Koo, Sekyung Lee, 795 Ab initio study on fragmentation of C,p into Cs, and C, Jeong Sook Ha and El-Hang Lee C. O’Donovan and J. P. Carbotte 799 A BCS model of the nodal features of BSCO M. S. Lataifeh and A. F. D. Lehlooh 805 Mossbauer spectroscopy study of substituted yttrium iron garnets M. Zatuzny 809 Intersubband polariton effects in metal-clad optical waveguides T. Ebel, K. H. Wachtmann and W. Jeitschko 815 Magnetic properties of the uranium transition metal carbides U,TC,(T = Ru, Os, Rh, Ir and Pt) Keywords MARCH VOLUME 97, NUMBER 10 1996 CONTENTS I. I. Khairullin, Wen-Tsung Chang and 821 Orientational phase transition in Na,Cyo(x < 2): '*C NMR study Lian-Pin Hwang Vol. 97, Nos 1—12 Contents Xi I. N. Kotel’nikov, A. Ya. Shul’ man, 827 Heating of two-dimensional electron gas and LO phonons in S. D. Ganichev, N. A. Varvanin, B. Mayerhofer 5-doped GaAs by far-infrared radiation and W. Prettl L. M. Fisher, A. V. Kalinov, I. F. Voloshin, 833 Superposition of currents in hard superconductors placed into I. V. Baltaga, K. V. Il’enko and V. A. Yampol’ skii crossed ac and dc magnetic fields U. Niebling, J. Moldenhauer, T. Ludwig, 837 Thin films of the organic conductor (BEDO-TTF),,I , D. Schweitzer and W. Strunz V. I. Kozub 843 Low-frequency noise due to site energy fluctuations in hopping conductivity J. X. Zhang, F. Zhong and G. G. Siu 847 The scanning-rate dependence of energy dissipation in first-order phase transition of solids M. Kirm, I. Martinson, A. Lushchik, Ch. Lushchik, 851 Energy transfer by exciton-polaritons and secondary excitons in a A. Maaroos and E. Vasil’chenko KBr:I crystal P. Longe and S. M. Bose 857 Excitations in a spherical two-dimensional electron gas— application to the Cy, molecule D. Berner, V. M. Burlakov, G. Scheiber, 863 Spectroscopy of the Peierls transition order parameter in the K. Widder, H. P. Geserich, J. Gmeiner and quasi-one dimensional organic c~nductor (FA), PF, M. Schwoerer M. Fanfoni and G. Fortunato 869 Bethe-lattice approach tor electronegativity calculation in amorphous alloys and its correlation with the chemical shift: a-SiO, and a-SiN, cases Seong-Il Kim, Moo-Sung Kim and Suk-Ki Min Strain and critical layer thickness analysis of carbon-doped GaAs R. J. Ilwanowski, K. Lawniczak-Jabtoriska, EXAFS studies of local atomic structure in Zn,_ ,Mn,S I. Winter and J. Hormes Jinfang Meng, Yabin Huang and Guangtian Zou Temperature dependence of the Raman active modes in nanocrystalline Bi,Ti,0,, W. Wonneberger On the anomaly of the dielectric function of blue bronze A. Gukasyan, A. Kvit, Y. Klevkov and High-resolution PL characterization of impurity segregation and S. Oktyabrsky their complex formation on extended defects in CdTe Keywords MARCH VOLUME 97, NUMBER 11 1996 CONTENTS G. Bongiovanni, A. Mura, A. Piaggi, C. Botta, 903 Temporal dynamics of photoexcitations in m-conjugated regular S. Destri and R. Tubino copolymers D. Albert, J. Kraus, E. Kurtz, S. Einfeldt, 909 The shallow compensating donors in molecular beam epitaxy J. Niirnberger and D. Hommel grown ZnSe:N A. Pimenov, C. H. Riischer and V. A. Maslov 913 Surface and intrinsic low frequency conductivity of KTiOPO, (KTP) in the temperature range 290-1100 K K. Pakuta, A.W ysmotek, K. P. Korona, 919 Luminescence and reflectivity in the exciton region of J. M. Baranowski, R. Stepniewski, I. Grzegory, homoepitaxial GaN layers grown on GaN substrates M. Bockowski, J. Jun, S. Krukowski, M. Wroblewski and S. Porowski G. André, F. Bourée, A. Oles, W. Sikora, B. Penc, 923 Modulated magnetic structures in UPd,Ge, A. Szytuta and Z. Tomkowicz N. J. Pinto, P. D. Shah, B. J. McCormick and 931 Dependence of the conducting state of polyaniline films on P. K. Kahol moisture R. James and S. M. Woodley 935 Extraction of Green’s functions from total energy plane wave pseudopotential calculations Xil Vol. 97, Nos 1—12 Contents J.-K. Rhee, D. S. Citrin, T. B. Norris, Y. Arakawa 941 Femtosecond dynamics of semiconductor-microcavity polaritons and M. Nishioka in the nonlinear regime N. C. Constantinou and F. G. Elmzughi 947 Effective medium intrasubband surface plasmon-polaritons on semi-infinite GaAs/AIAs superlattices Z. Q. Chen, X. W. Hu, S. J. Wang and S. Q. Li 951 'dentification of vacancy-type defects in as-grown InP by positron annihilation rate distribution measurements S. Kolesnik, T. SkoSkiewicz, J. Igalson, 957 Magnetic properties of oxygen-deficient GdBa,Cu,QO, single M. Sawicki and V. P. Dyakonov crystals J. Ma, S. M. Wang, D. Z. Shen, X. W. Fan and 961 The study of third order nonlinearities in ZnCdSe—ZnSe/GaAs J.Q. Yu MQWs using Z-scan G. W. Mbise, G. A. Niklasson and C. G. Granqvist 965 Scaling of surface roughness in evaporated calcium fluoride films M. El-Said 971 Study of the energy level-crossings in GaAs/A1,Ga, _,As quantum dots Shuwei Li, Yixin Jin, Baolin Zhang, 975 Study of GalnAsSb epilayer by scanning electron acoustic Yonggiang Ning, Tianming Zhou, Hong Jiang and microscopy Guang Yuan Shaw-Kwen Ma and Juh Tzeng Lue 979 Spin-glass states exhibited by silver nano-particles prepared by sol-gel method D. Viri and R. Del Sole 985 Exact solution of the Schrédinger equation for Wannier excitons on a microsphere Eng Chan Kim and Sin Giu Kang 991 Mossbauer and X-ray studies of (Fe, _,.M,)7Seg, (M = Ni, Co) Xuhong Wu, Chengxiang Zhang and 997 The nonlinear susceptibility of composites with periodic geometry Shaozeng Wu V.R. Misko 1003 Features of fine structures of exciton luminescence bands in the confined semiconductor systems MARCH VOLUME 97, NUMBER 12 1996 CONTENTS D. S. Citrin 1009 Polariton model of linear optical absorption by quantum wells: inadequacy of perturbation theory J. P. Dekker, A. Lodder, R. Zeller and 1013 Multiple scattering theory rid of free-electron poles A. F. Tatarchenko O. V. Krasovska, E. E. Krasovskii and 1019 Theoretical study of optical and ultraviolet photoemission spectra V.N. Antonov of SrTiO, J. H. de Aratijo, A. A. Gomes and 1025 Atomic hopping in AlCuFe quasicrystal J.B. M. da Cunha N. J. Pinto, P. D. Shah, P. K. Kahol and 1029 Dielectric constant and ac conductivity in polyaniline derivatives B. J. McCormick J. Fontcuberta, B. Martinez, J. L. Garcia-Mujfioz, 1033 High magnetic polarizability of magnetoresistive manganese A. Seffar, S. Pifiol, A. Roig, E. Molins and oxides X. Obradors Liang-Sheng Liao, Xi-Mao Bao, Ning-Sheng Li, 1039 Visible electroluminescence from Si*-implanted SiO, films Xiang-Qin Zheng and Nai-Ben Min thermally grown on crystalline Si Litai Tong, Feng Wu, Shousheng Yan, Tianhao Ji 1043 Paramagnetic behavior in NiNaY zeolites and Bingxiong Lin