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•	Modified Broyden’s method for accelerating convergence in self-consistent calculations D. D. Johnson pp. 12807-12813 [View Page Images , PDF (1362 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical behavior of a nonlinear thin film with oblique S-polarized incident wave Wei Chen and D. L. Mills pp. 12814-12822 [View Page Images , PDF (1115 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface properties of a heavy-fermion system: An exact many-body solution to a periodic-cluster Hubbard model Changfeng Chen, Ariel Reich, and L. M. Falicov pp. 12823-12833 [View Page Images , PDF (1601 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local-density description of antiferromagnetic Cr Jing Chen, David Singh, and Henry Krakauer pp. 12834-12836 [View Page Images , PDF (442 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	X-ray study of the structure of K1-xRbxC8 P. C. Chow and H. Zabel pp. 12837-12850 [View Page Images , PDF (2458 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Determination of the off-center parameters in NaBr:Cu+ by pressure effects of the absorption bands Shuichi Emura and Masakazu Ishiguro pp. 12851-12857 [View Page Images , PDF (1089 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic structure of the pseudobinary U(Rh1-yPdy)3 alloys Olle Eriksson, Börje Johansson, M. S. Brooks, and H. L. Skriver pp. 12858-12863 [View Page Images , PDF (970 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical properties of metallic silicon M. Hanfland, M. Alouani, K. Syassen, and N. E. Christensen pp. 12864-12867 [View Page Images , PDF (714 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Freely-migrating-defect production during irradiation at elevated temperatures T. Hashimoto, L. E. Rehn, and P. R. Okamoto pp. 12868-12878 [View Page Images , PDF (1777 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural and magnetic properties of ultrathin Ni/Fe bilayers grown epitaxially on Ag(001) B. Heinrich, S. T. Purcell, J. R. Dutcher, K. B. Urquhart, J. F. Cochran, and A. S. Arrott pp. 12879-12896 [View Page Images , PDF (3337 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Surface-phonon calculations for the Al(110) surface K. M. Ho and K. P. Bohnen pp. 12897-12902 [View Page Images , PDF (841 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Strictly localized eigenstates on a three-dimensional Penrose lattice Marian Kraj and Takeo Fujiwara pp. 12903-12907 [View Page Images , PDF (886 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural phase transition at 205 K in stoichiometric vanadium nitride F. Kubel, W. Lengauer, K. Yvon, K. Knorr, and A. Junod pp. 12908-12912 [View Page Images , PDF (785 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Computer simulations of a distorted reciprocal lattice of an Al-Li-Cu single quasicrystal Zhenhong Mai, Shizhong Tao, Lingzhi Zeng, and Baoshan Zhang pp. 12913-12916 [View Page Images , PDF (640 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic and superconducting properties of Mo-Ta superlattices L. Maritato, A. M. Cucolo, R. Vaglio, C. Noce, J. L. Makous, and Charles M. Falco pp. 12917-12921 [View Page Images , PDF (643 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Infinite screening and cluster calculations of ionization potentials D. Nordfors, N. Mårtensson, and H. Ågren pp. 12922-12928 [View Page Images , PDF (1078 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Screening effects on the quadrupole splitting in amorphous Fe-Zr alloys P. M. Scholte, M. Tegze, and F. van der Woude pp. 12929-12936 [View Page Images , PDF (1327 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stability of multiply positively charged homonuclear clusters W. Schulze, B. Winter, and I. Goldenfeld pp. 12937-12941 [View Page Images , PDF (669 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Rapid convergence of lattice sums and structural integrals in ordered and disordered systems A. P. Smith and N. W. Ashcroft pp. 12942-12947 [View Page Images , PDF (1025 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Prism-coupled light emission from tunnel junctions containing interface roughness: Theory A. Takeuchi, J. Watanabe, Y. Uehara, and S. Ushioda pp. 12948-12958 [View Page Images , PDF (1692 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Prism-coupled light emission from tunnel junctions containing interface roughness: Experiment J. Watanabe, A. Takeuchi, Y. Uehara, and S. Ushioda pp. 12959-12965 [View Page Images , PDF (1130 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Model dielectric constants of Si and Ge Sadao Adachi pp. 12966-12976 [View Page Images , PDF (1705 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Band structure of quantum wells under crossed electric and magnetic fields J. A. Brum, L. L. Chang, and L. Esaki pp. 12977-12982 [View Page Images , PDF (1018 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Generalized master equations and other theories of the phonon-assisted hopping conduction V. Čápek pp. 12983-12987 [View Page Images , PDF (681 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum-confined Stark effects on a GaAs cluster embedded in AlxGa1-xAs Yoshie Chiba and Shuhei Ohnishi pp. 12988-12995 [View Page Images , PDF (1210 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Structural and electronic properties of bulk ZnSe A. Continenza, S. Massidda, and A. J. Freeman pp. 12996-13001 [View Page Images , PDF (1026 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Switching and charge-density-wave transport in NbSe3. I. dc characteristics R. P. Hall, M. F. Hundley, and A. Zettl pp. 13002-13018 [View Page Images , PDF (3240 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Switching and charge-density-wave transport in NbSe3. II. ac characteristics R. P. Hall and A. Zettl pp. 13019-13027 [View Page Images , PDF (1545 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Switching and charge-density-wave transport in NbSe3. III. Dynamical instabilities M. S. Sherwin, A. Zettl, and R. P. Hall pp. 13028-13046 [View Page Images , PDF (3782 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Phase slips and switching in charge-density-wave transport M. Inui, R. P. Hall, S. Doniach, and A. Zettl pp. 13047-13060 [View Page Images , PDF (2478 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theoretical investigation of collective excitations in HgTe/CdTe superlattices. I. Intrasubband excitation Dan-hong Huang and Shi-xun Zhou pp. 13061-13068 [View Page Images , PDF (994 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Theoretical investigation of collective excitations in HgTe/CdTe superlattices. II. Intersubband excitation and effects of magnetic field and electron-phonon coupling Dan-hong Huang and Shi-xun Zhou pp. 13069-13078 [View Page Images , PDF (1102 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Aluminum in complex luminescence defects in irradiated silicon E. Irion, N. Bürger, K. Thonke, and R. Sauer pp. 13079-13085 [View Page Images , PDF (1146 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum transport in neutron-irradiated modulation-doped heterojunctions. I. Fast neutrons Wei-min Jin, Jun-ming Zhou, Yi Huang, and Li-hong Cai pp. 13086-13089 [View Page Images , PDF (724 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Quantum transport in neutron-irradiated modulation-doped heterojunctions. II. Thermal neutrons Wei-min Jin, Jun-ming Zhou, Yi Huang, and Li-hong Cai pp. 13090-13094 [View Page Images , PDF (837 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Superlattice k⋅p models for calculating electronic structure N. F. Johnson, H. Ehrenreich, G. Y. Wu, and T. C. McGill pp. 13095-13098 [View Page Images , PDF (648 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Extended x-ray-absorption and electron-energy-loss fine-structure studies of the local atomic structure of amorphous unhydrogenated and hydrogenated silicon carbide Alain E. Kaloyeros, Richard B. Rizk, and John B. Woodhouse pp. 13099-13106 [View Page Images , PDF (1393 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ellipsometric study of optical transitions in Ag1-xInx alloys Kwang Joo Kim, Liang-Yao Chen, and David W. Lynch pp. 13107-13112 [View Page Images , PDF (968 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	General comparison of the surface processes involved in nitridation of Si(100)-2×1 by NH3 and in SiNx film deposition: a photoemission study L. Kubler, J. L. Bischoff, and D. Bolmont pp. 13113-13123 [View Page Images , PDF (1895 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Spatial and energetic distribution of Si-SiO2 near-interface states H. Lakhdari, D. Vuillaume, and J. C. Bourgoin pp. 13124-13132 [View Page Images , PDF (1489 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Carrier-concentation-dependent electron–LO-phonon coupling observed in GaAs-(Ga,Al)As heterojunctions by resonant-polaron cyclotron resonance C. J. Langerak, J. Singleton, P. J. van der Wel, J. A. Perenboom, D. J. Barnes, R. J. Nicholas, M. A. Hopkins, and C. T. Foxon pp. 13133-13142 [View Page Images , PDF (1865 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Piezo- and photomodulated reflectivity spectra of ZnSe/GaAs and CdTe/InSb epilayers Y. R. Lee, A. K. Ramdas, L. A. Kolodziejski, and R. L. Gunshor pp. 13143-13149 [View Page Images , PDF (1179 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Noise spectroscopy of silicon grain boundaries Armin J. Madenach and Jürgen H. Werner pp. 13150-13162 [View Page Images , PDF (2341 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Disordering of the (111) surface of germanium crystal near its bulk melting temperature E. G. McRae and R. A. Malic pp. 13163-13177 [View Page Images , PDF (2738 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Analysis of molecular-dynamics simulations of the (111) surface of germanium crystal near its bulk melting temperature E. G. McRae, J. M. Landwehr, J. E. McRae, G. H. Gilmer, and M. H. Grabow pp. 13178-13182 [View Page Images , PDF (900 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interband Faraday effect in Cd1-xMnxSe Eunsoon Oh, D. U. Bartholomew, A. K. Ramdas, J. K. Furdyna, and U. Debska pp. 13183-13190 [View Page Images , PDF (1418 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Stability of the (InAs)1/(GaAs)1 monolayer superlattice Takahisa Ohno pp. 13191-13196 [View Page Images , PDF (1120 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Critical study of multivalley effective-mass equation for donors in silicon E. Palaniyandi and T. Vasantha Malliga pp. 13197-13199 [View Page Images , PDF (445 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Temperature dependence of photoluminescence in hydrogenated amorphous silicon Gyeong-Lyong Park, Hyang-Shik Kong, Choochon Lee, and Jin Jang pp. 13200-13205 [View Page Images , PDF (942 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pressure-induced Γ-X transition in (Ga,In)P D. Patel, J. Chen, I. L. Spain, J. H. Quigley, M. J. Hafich, and G. Y. Robinson pp. 13206-13209 [View Page Images , PDF (556 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	X-ray diffraction study of the Ge(111)5×5-Sn and Ge(111)7×7-Sn surfaces Jan Skov Pedersen, Robert Feidenhans’l, Mourits Nielsen, Francois Grey, and Robert L. Johnson pp. 13210-13221 [View Page Images , PDF (2115 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical investigations on indirect-band-gap AlxGa1-xAs/AlyGa1-yAs superlattices M.-E. Pistol, G. Paulsson, L. Samuelson, M. Rask, and G. Landgren pp. 13222-13226 [View Page Images , PDF (792 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optically detected magnetic resonance study of antisite-to-acceptor and related recombination processes in as-grown InP:Zn L. H. Robins, P. C. Taylor, and T. A. Kennedy pp. 13227-13236 [View Page Images , PDF (1716 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic properties of the (100) (Si)/(Ge) strained-layer superlattices Sashi Satpathy, Richard M. Martin, and Chris G. Van de Walle pp. 13237-13245 [View Page Images , PDF (1752 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Bistability of magnetic polarons bound to acceptors in a wurtzite semimagnetic semiconductor D. Scalbert, J. Cernogora, C. Benoit, la Guillaume, and M. Nawrocki pp. 13246-13256 [View Page Images , PDF (1806 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Ab initio calculation of the mixing enthalpy of the GaAs-AlAs random alloy Yu-Tang Shen, D. M. Bylander, and Leonard Kleinman pp. 13257-13262 [View Page Images , PDF (972 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Band structure of carbonated amorphous silicon studied by optical, photoelectron, and x-ray spectroscopy I. Solomon, M. P. Schmidt, C. Sénémaud, and M. Driss Khodja pp. 13263-13270 [View Page Images , PDF (1332 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Excitons near interfaces of polar-nonpolar crystals with strong interactions between the excitons and optical phonons Hong Sun and Shi Wei Gu pp. 13271-13276 [View Page Images , PDF (935 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Local valence-band densities of states of AlxGa1-xAs K. L. Tsang, J. E. Rowe, T. A. Callcott, and R. A. Logan pp. 13277-13281 [View Page Images , PDF (946 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Auger-electron emission induced by Ar+ impact on silicides S. Valeri, R. Tonini, and G. Ottaviani pp. 13282-13290 [View Page Images , PDF (1546 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Sulfur pair in silicon: 33S electron-nuclear double resonance A. B. van Oosten and C. A. Ammerlaan pp. 13291-13296 [View Page Images , PDF (1047 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Influence of contacts on the magnetotransport in a two-dimensional electron gas R. Woltjer, M. J. de Blank, J. J. Harris, C. T. Foxon, and J. P. André pp. 13297-13306 [View Page Images , PDF (1711 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Formalism of the Kronig-Penney model for superlattices of variable basis Perng-fei Yuh and K. L. Wang pp. 13307-13315 [View Page Images , PDF (1312 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Exciton spectra in GaAs/Ga1-xAlxAs quantum wells in an externally applied electric field Bangfen Zhu pp. 13316-13322 [View Page Images , PDF (1152 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Energy relaxation of lower-dimensional hot carriers studied with picosecond photoluminescence R. W. Hollering, T. T. Berendschot, H. J. Bluyssen, H. A. Reinen, P. Wyder, and F. Roozeboom pp. 13323-13334 [View Page Images , PDF (2118 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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Investigation of location, electronic structures, and associated properties of chalcogen atoms adsorbed on silicon surfaces: Sulfur and selenium S. M. Mohapatra, B. N. Dev, K. C. Mishra, W. M. Gibson, and T. P. Das pp. 13335-13342 [View Page Images , PDF (1460 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anharmonic mixing between two phonons in red mercury iodide A. Anedda and G. Bongiovanni pp. 13343-13347 [View Page Images , PDF (792 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Unoccupied electronic states of single-crystal graphite by angle-resolved ultraviolet inverse photoemission I. R. Collins, P. T. Andrews, and A. R. Law pp. 13348-13354 [View Page Images , PDF (1323 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Comparison between optically excited and electron-excited transitions above oxygen and nitrogen K edges in Cu2O, O/Al, O/Ni, SiO2 , and Si3N4 F. Della Valle, G. Comelli, F. Zanini, R. Rosei, and G. Paolucci pp. 13355-13360 [View Page Images , PDF (935 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Density-functional theory in insulators: Analytical model for Σxc, vxc, and the gap correction W. Hanke and L. J. Sham pp. 13361-13370 [View Page Images , PDF (1433 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Symmetric transmission electron momentum (e,2e) spectroscopy of an aluminum–aluminum oxide thin foil P. Hayes, M. A. Bennett, J. Flexman, and J. F. Williams pp. 13371-13376 [View Page Images , PDF (953 kB) , Figure Images, or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Dielectric continuum model and Fröhlich interaction in superlattices Kun Huang and Bangfen Zhu pp. 13377-13386 [View Page Images , PDF (1447 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Polarons near the Čerenkov velocity J. H. Jensen and J. A. Sauls pp. 13387-13394 [View Page Images , PDF (1052 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Specific heat of poly(dG)-poly(dC) below 5 K Yup Kim pp. 13395-13398 [View Page Images , PDF (661 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Early stages of the alkali-metal-promoted oxidation of silicon E. G. Michel, J. E. Ortega, E. M. Oellig, M. C. Asensio, J. Ferrón, and R. Miranda pp. 13399-13406 [View Page Images , PDF (1462 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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•	Effect of electrostatic screening on energy positions of electron spectra near SiO2/Si interfaces R. Browning, M. A. Sobolewski, and C. R. Helms pp. 13407-13410 [View Page Images , PDF (614 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electronic stationary states in the presence of uniform electric and magnetic fields and a periodic potential D. A. Page pp. 13411 [View Page Images , PDF (151 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Atomiclike behavior of the Mo 4d photoionization cross section in Mo islands grown on Al E. Puppin, I. Lindau, and L. Braicovich pp. 13412-13414 [View Page Images , PDF (490 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Pressure studies of ZrO2-Al2O3 films grown by magnetron sputtering S. B. Qadri, E. F. Skelton, C. Quinn, and C. Gilmore pp. 13415-13417 [View Page Images , PDF (381 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Interface dipoles, surface work functions, and Schottky-barrier formation at Au/ZnSe(100) interfaces F. Xu, M. Vos, J. H. Weaver, and H. Cheng pp. 13418-13421 [View Page Images , PDF (625 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Band structure of silicon from the semiempirical modified neglect of diatomic differential overlap method Morgan Besson, Gary G. DeLeo, and W. Beall Fowler pp. 13422-13425 [View Page Images , PDF (577 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Parallel channel to the Boltzmann band conduction: Scattering by charged screened impurities in semiconductors V. Čápek pp. 13426-13428 [View Page Images , PDF (284 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Electron mobility in In0.53Ga0.47As quantum wells D. Chattopadhyay pp. 13429-13431 [View Page Images , PDF (466 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Steady-state and transient photoconductivity in amorphous thin films of GexSe100-x A. Kumar, S. Goel, and S. K. Tripathi pp. 13432-13435 [View Page Images , PDF (476 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Anomalous electrical resistivity and photovoltaic phenomenon in the fast-mixed conductor lithium silicide Li12Si7 K. Kuriyama, T. Maeda, and A. Mizuno pp. 13436-13438 [View Page Images , PDF (507 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Coupling of electron gases in wide quantum wells J. M. Lagemaat, Gerrit E. Bauer, J. J. Harris, and C. T. Foxon pp. 13439-13442 [View Page Images , PDF (597 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Optical nonlinearities in multiple quantum wells: New insight on band-gap renormalization J. A. Levenson, I. Abram, R. Raj, G. Dolique, J. L. Oudar, and F. Alexandre pp. 13443-13446 [View Page Images , PDF (646 kB), or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

•	Epitaxial growth of metastable semiconductor alloys: A novel simulation G. F. Preger, C. M. Chaves, and Belita Koiller pp. 13447-13450 [View Page Images , PDF (64