Physical Review B – 15 May 2003
(Volume 67, Issue 19)

BRIEF REPORTS

Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems

Add to article collection Interaction-induced oscillations in correlated electron transport
F. Claro, J. F. Weisz, and S. Curilef
Published 5 May 2003 (4 pages)
193101 [View PDF (55 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Signature of intrinsic defects in SiC: Ab initio calculations of hyperfine tensors
Michel Bockstedte, Matthias Heid, and Oleg Pankratov
Published 7 May 2003 (4 pages)
193102 [View PDF (126 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Universal conductivity at a metal-insulator transition
André S. Ferreira and Mucio A. Continentino
Published 8 May 2003 (4 pages)
193103 [View PDF (54 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Origin of current-induced forces in an atomic gold wire:  A first-principles study
Mads Brandbyge, Kurt Stokbro, Jeremy Taylor, José-Luis Mozos, and Pablo Ordejón
Published 20 May 2003 (4 pages)
193104 [View PDF (342 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

Add to article collection Electron space charge effect on spin injection into semiconductors
Yue Yu, Jinbin Li, and S. T. Chui
Published 27 May 2003 (4 pages)
193201 [View PDF (63 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics

Add to article collection Spin-dependent resonant tunneling between coupled levels in parabolic wells under crossed fields
Rosana B. Santiago and L. G. Guimarães
Published 5 May 2003 (4 pages)
193301 [View PDF (264 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Phase inversion in rotational anisotropy of second harmonic generation at Si(001) interfaces
Yong Qiang An and Steven T. Cundiff
Published 9 May 2003 (4 pages)
193302 [View PDF (241 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Conductance of interacting nanowires
V. Meden and U. Schollwöck
Published 9 May 2003 (4 pages)
193303 [View PDF (53 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Single-spin measurement in the solid state: A reader for a spin qubit
S. Bandyopadhyay
Published 12 May 2003 (4 pages)
193304 [View PDF (205 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Excitonic binding in coupled quantum wells
M. H. Szymanska and P. B. Littlewood
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
193305 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Transition with a hysteresis cycle in surface reconstruction on GaAs(001) observed by optical reflectance spectroscopy
Takashi Kita, Masahiko Nakamoto, and Osamu Wada
Published 15 May 2003 (4 pages)
193306 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Stability of Sb line structures on Si(001)
Jian-Tao Wang, Hiroshi Mizuseki, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe, Tomihiro Hashizume, Masamichi Naitoh, Ding-Sheng Wang, and En-Ge Wang
Published 21 May 2003 (4 pages)
193307 [View PDF (391 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

Add to article collection Vibrations of a chain of Xe atoms in a groove in a carbon nanotube bundle
Marko T. Cvitaš and Antonio Šiber
Published 1 May 2003 (4 pages)
193401 [View PDF (153 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Reading the ripples of confined surface-state electrons: Profiles of constant integrated local density of states
Marina Pivetta, Fabien Silly, François Patthey, Jonathan P. Pelz, and Wolf-Dieter Schneider
Published 5 May 2003 (4 pages)
193402 [View PDF (466 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Melting behavior of ultrathin titanium nanowires
Baolin Wang, Guanghou Wang, Xiaoshuang Chen, and Jijun Zhao
Published 20 May 2003 (4 pages)
193403 [View PDF (177 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Power dissipation analysis in tapping-mode atomic force microscopy
M. Balantekin and A. Atalar
Published 27 May 2003 (4 pages)
193404 [View PDF (57 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Relevance of nonlocal adatom-adatom interactions in homoepitaxial growth
Celia Polop, Henri Hansen, Carsten Busse, and Thomas Michely
Published 28 May 2003 (4 pages)
193405 [View PDF (39 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Adsorption energies and geometries of phenol on the (111) surface of nickel: An ab initio study
L. Delle Site, A. Alavi, and C. F. Abrams
Published 30 May 2003 (3 pages)
193406 [View PDF (294 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Two-dimensional equilibrium island shape and step free energies of Cu(001)
Ronny Van Moere, Harold J. Zandvliet, and Bene Poelsema
Published 30 May 2003 (4 pages)
193407 [View PDF (101 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

ARTICLES

Electronic structure: wide-band, narrow-band, and strongly correlated systems

Add to article collection Ionic size and atomic disorder effects on the charge-density-wave transitions in R5Ir4Si10(R=Dy-Lu)
Y. -K. Kuo, F. H. Hsu, H. H. Li, H. L. Huang, C. W. Huang, C. S. Lue, and H. D. Yang
Published 1 May 2003 (10 pages)
195101 [View PDF (169 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Path integral description of a semiclassical Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model
Marco Zoli
Published 5 May 2003 (6 pages)
195102 [View PDF (91 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Hole-pair hopping in arrangements of hole-rich/hole-poor domains in a quantum antiferromagnet
Efstratios Manousakis
Published 12 May 2003 (6 pages)
195103 [View PDF (165 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Critical reexamination of the nonreciprocal x-ray gyrotropy in V2O3
S. Di Matteo, Y. Joly, and C. R. Natoli
Published 20 May 2003 (9 pages)
195105 [View PDF (228 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Optical properties of polycrystalline metallic films
Juan Sotelo, Jesper Ederth, and Gunnar Niklasson
Published 20 May 2003 (8 pages)
195106 [View PDF (109 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Spin-orbital fluctuations and a large mass enhancement in LiV2O4
Yasufumi Yamashita and Kazuo Ueda
Published 20 May 2003 (5 pages)
195107 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Crystal-field analysis, upconversion, and excited-state dynamics for (U4+,U3+):Ba2YCl7 single crystals
Mirosław Karbowiak, Agnieszka Mech, Janusz Drożdżyński, and Norman M. Edelstein
Published 27 May 2003 (17 pages)
195108 [View PDF (212 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Compressibility of a two-dimensional electron gas
S. Orozco, R. M. Méndez-Moreno, and M. Moreno
Published 27 May 2003 (6 pages)
195109 [View PDF (73 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors I: bulk

Add to article collection Optical studies of excited-state relaxation in poly(9,9-dihexylfluorene-co-benzothiadiazole)
M. Westerling, C. Vijila, R. Österbacka, and H. Stubb
Published 1 May 2003 (6 pages)
195201 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Lyman spectrum of holes bound to substitutional 3d transition metal ions in a III-V host: GaAs(Mn2+, Co2+, or Cu2+), GaP(Mn2+), and InP(Mn2+)
Enver Tarhan, I. Miotkowski, S. Rodriguez, and A. K. Ramdas
Published 6 May 2003 (9 pages)
195202 [View PDF (144 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Enhancement of ferromagnetism in uniaxially stressed dilute magnetic semiconductors
Yuri Semenov and Vladimir Stephanovich
Published 9 May 2003 (10 pages)
195203 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Saddle point for oxygen reorientation in the vicinity of a silicon vacancy
L. Dobaczewski, O. Andersen, L. Rubaldo, K. Gościński, V. P. Markevich, A. R. Peaker, and K. Bonde Nielsen
Published 22 May 2003 (8 pages)
195204 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Interband transitions and phonon modes in BxGa1-xAs (0<~x<~0.03) and GaNyAs1-y (0<~y<~0.037): A comparison
Gunnar Leibiger, Volker Gottschalch, Volker Riede, Mathias Schubert, James N. Hilfiker, and Thomas E. Tiwald
Published 22 May 2003 (8 pages)
195205 [View PDF (118 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Semiconductors II: surfaces, interfaces, microstructures, and related topics

Add to article collection Control of strain-mediated growth kinetics of self-assembled semiconductor quantum dots
M. Meixner, R. Kunert, and E. Schöll
Published 1 May 2003 (12 pages)
195301 [View PDF (544 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Atomic structure and theoretical scanning tunneling microscopy images of Li zigzag chains on the GaAs(110) surface
Hongsuk Yi, Hanchul Kim, Beena Kuruvilla, and Jinwook Chung
Published 1 May 2003 (5 pages)
195302 [View PDF (197 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Spectrally resolved resonant Rayleigh scattering from excitons in GaAs quantum wells
D. Schwedt, Ch. Nacke, H. Stolz, S. Eshlaghi, S. Reuter, and A. Wieck
Published 1 May 2003 (3 pages)
195303 [View PDF (217 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Theoretical study of light-emission properties of amorphous silicon quantum dots
Kengo Nishio, Junichiro Kōga, Toshio Yamaguchi, and Fumiko Yonezawa
Published 5 May 2003 (5 pages)
195304 [View PDF (184 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electron-phonon quantum kinetics for spatially inhomogeneous excitations
M. Herbst, M. Glanemann, V. M. Axt, and T. Kuhn
Published 6 May 2003 (18 pages)
195305 [View PDF (1514 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Field dependence of the carrier occupation in double-quantum-well superlattices
P. Kleinert, L. Schrottke, H. T. Grahn, and V. V. Bryksin
Published 6 May 2003 (10 pages)
195306 [View PDF (120 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Levitation of quantum Hall critical states in a lattice model with spatially correlated disorder
Th. Koschny and L. Schweitzer
Published 7 May 2003 (10 pages)
195307 [View PDF (127 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Polarity reversal of terahertz waves radiated from semi-insulating InP surfaces induced by temperature
M. Nakajima, M. Hangyo, M. Ohta, and H. Miyazaki
Published 7 May 2003 (7 pages)
195308 [View PDF (76 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum behavior in nanoscale ballistic rectifiers and artificial materials
A. Löfgren, I. Shorubalko, P. Omling, and A. M. Song
Published 7 May 2003 (7 pages)
195309 [View PDF (443 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Intrinsic electric fields in N-polarity GaN/AlxGa1-xN quantum wells with inversion domains
T. V. Shubina, A. A. Toropov, V. N. Jmerik, M. G. Tkachman, A. V. Lebedev, V. V. Ratnikov, A. A. Sitnikova, V. A. Vekshin, S. V. Ivanov, P. S. Kop’ev, P. Bigenwald, J. P. Bergman, P. O. Holtz, and B. Monemar
Published 7 May 2003 (10 pages)
195310 [View PDF (217 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Partially coherent phonon heat conduction in superlattices
B. Yang and G. Chen
Published 8 May 2003 (4 pages)
195311 [View PDF (59 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Magnetoresistance of semiconductor-metal hybrid structures: The effects of material parameters and contact resistance
Matthias Holz, Oliver Kronenwerth, and Dirk Grundler
Published 9 May 2003 (10 pages)
195312 [View PDF (610 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Dielectric constant of ultrathin SiO2 film estimated from the Auger parameter
K. Hirose, H. Kitahara, and T. Hattori
Published 12 May 2003 (5 pages)
195313 [View PDF (78 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Formation of Ge nanocrystals embedded in a SiO2 matrix: Transmission electron microscopy, x-ray absorption, and optical studies
A. V. Kolobov, S. Q. Wei, W. S. Yan, H. Oyanagi, Y. Maeda, and K. Tanaka
Published 13 May 2003 (8 pages)
195314 [View PDF (289 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection First-principles treatments of electron transport properties for nanoscale junctions
Yoshitaka Fujimoto and Kikuji Hirose
Published 13 May 2003 (12 pages)
195315 [View PDF (516 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Magnetoresistance for the ferromagnetic tunnel junction with an amorphous semiconducting barrier
Ming-wen Xiao, Zheng-zhong Li, and Wang Xu
Published 14 May 2003 (7 pages)
195316 [View PDF (94 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Second subband population of the two-dimensional electron gas in strongly coupled GaAs/Al0.3Ga0.7As double quantum wells
Ikai Lo, J. K. Tsai, P. C. Ho, W. J. Yao, C. H. Chang, J.-C. Chiang, Li-Wei Tu, and Q. X. Zhao
Published 14 May 2003 (5 pages)
195317 [View PDF (403 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Transport properties in asymmetric InAs/AlSb/GaSb electron-hole hybridized systems
Kyoichi Suzuki, Sen Miyashita, and Yoshiro Hirayama
Published 15 May 2003 (8 pages)
195319 [View PDF (104 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Dephasing due to background charge fluctuations
Toshifumi Itakura and Yasuhiro Tokura
Published 16 May 2003 (9 pages)
195320 [View PDF (114 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Polarization rotation in parametric scattering of polaritons in semiconductor microcavities
A. Kavokin, P. G. Lagoudakis, G. Malpuech, and J. J. Baumberg
Published 20 May 2003 (9 pages)
195321 [View PDF (186 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Dirty quantum Hall ferromagnets and quantum Hall spin glasses
Derek K. Lee, Sebastian Rapsch, and J. T. Chalker
Published 20 May 2003 (12 pages)
195322 [View PDF (128 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electronic coupling in linear arrays of quantum cavities characterized using conductance fluctuations
Y. Takagaki and K. H. Ploog
Published 20 May 2003 (7 pages)
195323 [View PDF (98 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Formalization for the study of conductivity in multisubband quantum wells
Jean-Louis Farvacque
Published 21 May 2003 (8 pages)
195324 [View PDF (102 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection High-resolution photoemission study of hydrogen interaction with polar and nonpolar GaAs surfaces
M. Petravic, P. N. Deenapanray, B. F. Usher, K.-J. Kim, and B. Kim
Published 22 May 2003 (8 pages)
195325 [View PDF (111 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Overlap effects on electron transmission through doped molecular wires
K. W. Sulston and S. G. Davison
Published 23 May 2003 (7 pages)
195326 [View PDF (85 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Persistent current in a mesoscopic ring coupled with a quantum dot
Guo-Hui Ding and Bing Dong
Published 23 May 2003 (7 pages)
195327 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Steric interaction model of roughening and vacancy reorganization on halogen-terminated Si(100)-2×1 surfaces
Dongxue Chen and John J. Boland
Published 27 May 2003 (6 pages)
195328 [View PDF (651 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electron spin evolution induced by interaction with nuclei in a quantum dot
Alexander Khaetskii, Daniel Loss, and Leonid Glazman
Published 27 May 2003 (11 pages)
195329 [View PDF (328 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Lack of thermodynamic equilibrium in conjugated organic molecular thin films
N. Koch, C. Chan, A. Kahn, and J. Schwartz
Published 27 May 2003 (5 pages)
195330 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Weak localization in laterally coupled quantum wires
O. Bierwagen, C. Walther, W. T. Masselink, and K.-J. Friedland
Published 28 May 2003 (5 pages)
195331 [View PDF (150 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Adatoms, dimers, and interstitials on group-IV(113) surfaces: First-principles studies of energetical, structural, and electronic properties
A. A. Stekolnikov, J. Furthmüller, and F. Bechstedt
Published 28 May 2003 (10 pages)
195332 [View PDF (689 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Exciton migration in β-phase poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene)
M. Ariu, M. Sims, M. D. Rahn, J. Hill, A. M. Fox, D. G. Lidzey, M. Oda, J. Cabanillas-Gonzalez, and D. D. Bradley
Published 30 May 2003 (11 pages)
195333 [View PDF (125 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Electron-spin polarization in symmetric type-II quantum wells from bulk inversion asymmetry
A. E. Botha and M. R. Singh
Published 30 May 2003 (8 pages)
195334 [View PDF (95 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Ghost Fano resonance in a double quantum dot molecule attached to leads
M. L. Guevara, F. Claro, and Pedro A. Orellana
Published 30 May 2003 (6 pages)
195335 [View PDF (90 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Integer quantum Hall effect in isotropic three-dimensional crystals
M. Koshino and H. Aoki
Published 30 May 2003 (9 pages)
195336 [View PDF (1664 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Spin-orbit interaction and electron elastic scattering from impurities in quantum wells
H. C. Huang, O. Voskoboynikov, and C. P. Lee
Published 30 May 2003 (8 pages)
195337 [View PDF (639 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Layer-resolved kinetics of Si oxidation investigated using the reflectance difference oscillation method
T. Yasuda, N. Kumagai, M. Nishizawa, S. Yamasaki, H. Oheda, and K. Yamabe
Published 30 May 2003 (6 pages)
195338 [View PDF (143 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Surface physics, low-dimensional systems, and related topics

Add to article collection Thermal reaction of iron with a Si(111) vicinal surface: Surface ordering and growth of CsCl-type iron silicide
A. Wawro, S. Suto, R. Czajka, and A. Kasuya
Published 5 May 2003 (10 pages)
195401 [View PDF (833 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Resonant transmittance through metal films with fabricated and light-induced modulation
A. M. Dykhne, Andrey K. Sarychev, and Vladimir M. Shalaev
Published 6 May 2003 (13 pages)
195402 [View PDF (159 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Ground states of adsorbates on single-walled carbon nanotubes
Xiaobao Yang and Jun Ni
Published 6 May 2003 (9 pages)
195403 [View PDF (790 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Thermal roughening of a solid-on-solid model with elastic interaction
Frank Gutheim, Heiner Müller-Krumbhaar, Efim Brener, and Vladimir Kaganer
Published 6 May 2003 (7 pages)
195404 [View PDF (794 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Quantum transport using the Ford-Kac-Mazur formalism
Abhishek Dhar and B. Sriram Shastry
Published 7 May 2003 (10 pages)
195405 [View PDF (331 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Rumpled surface structure and lattice dynamics of NiO(001)
Tetsuaki Okazawa, Yoshihiro Yagi, and Yoshiaki Kido
Published 7 May 2003 (4 pages)
195406 [View PDF (122 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Two-dimensional alloy of immiscible metals: Single and binary monolayer films of Pb and Sn on Rh(111)
J. Yuhara, M. Schmid, and P. Varga
Published 12 May 2003 (6 pages)
195407 [View PDF (974 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Carbon nanotube closed-ring structures
Oded Hod, Eran Rabani, and Roi Baer
Published 14 May 2003 (7 pages)
195408 [View PDF (392 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Fingerprinting the electronic wave functions of ultrasmall conductors
Gustavo A. Narvaez and George Kirczenow
Published 20 May 2003 (6 pages)
195409 [View PDF (146 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Structural determination of indium-induced Si(111) reconstructed surfaces by LEED analysis: (sqrt[3]×sqrt[3])R30° and (4×1)
S. Mizuno, Y. O. Mizuno, and H. Tochihara
Published 20 May 2003 (8 pages)
195410 [View PDF (243 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Commensurate-incommensurate transitions in quantum films: Submonolayer molecular hydrogen on graphite
Kwangsik Nho and Efstratios Manousakis
Published 27 May 2003 (7 pages)
195411 [View PDF (130 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Surface properties of metastable alumina: A comparative study of κ- and α-Al2O3
C. Ruberto, Y. Yourdshahyan, and B. I. Lundqvist
Published 30 May 2003 (18 pages)
195412 [View PDF (1875 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection 3×2 reconstruction of the Sm/Si(111) interface
Frank Palmino, Eric Ehret, Louay Mansour, Jean-Claude Labrune, Geunseop Lee, Hanchul Kim, and Jean-Marc Themlin
Published 30 May 2003 (6 pages)
195413 [View PDF (587 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

Add to article collection Monte Carlo modeling of low-index surfaces in stoichiometric and Ni-rich NiAl
J. A. Brown and Y. Mishin
Published 30 May 2003 (9 pages)
195414 [View PDF (532 kB) or Buy this Article (Use Article Pack) ]

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