Advances in Solid State Physics: 39

This volume contains the majority of the invited talks of the Spring meeting of the Arbeitskreis Festk"rperphysik of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, which has been held in Mnster, Germany, in the period March 22 - 26, 1999. More than 3000 participants, among them PhD students and young post-doctoral scientists, witnessed that this annual gathering of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft has not lost any of its attractivity. The contents of this volume thus flashlights the 1999 status of Condensed Matter Physics in Germany and may serve as a reference volume for this years activities in this very active field.

Table of Contents:
Semiconductor applications in metrology.- 125 years of metal-semiconductor contacts: Where do we stand?.- Physics of semiconductor sensors.- Thermal nano-phase change of an antimony thin films and the application for optical near-field data storage.- AMR-sensors. All the way up from a deposited thin film to a commercial sensor.- High resolution calorimetric low temperature detectors for applications in atomic and nuclear physics.- Controlled doping of molecular organic layers: Physics and device prospects.- Organic electroluminescent devices.- High-mobility conjugated polymer field-effect transistors.- Ground state and collective excitations of quantum dots: Correlation effects and Hund's rule in magnetic field.- Nanomechanical resonators operating in the radio frequency regime as single charge detectors.- Ge and Si nanocrystals-New ways to luminescence structures.- Formation of low-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures on corrugated surfaces.- Optical absorption of heterogeneous thin solid films.- Nanolithography on semiconductor heterostructures by local oxidation with an atomic force microscope.- Ion beam synthesis of semiconductor nanoclusters for opto-and microelectronics applications.- Single-electron transistor as a local electrometer on top of a two-dimensional electron system in the quantum hall regime.- Spatially resolved measurements near the breakdown of the quantum hall effect.- Half-filled Landau level-Composite fermions and dipoles.- A new resistance maximum from electron-nuclear-spin interaction in the fractional quantum-hall-effect state.- Magnetization phenomena of a two-dimensional electron system in the quantum hall regime.- Microwave studies in the quantum hall effect regimes.- Metal-insulator transition in two dimensions.- Scaling and level statistics at the Anderson transition.- The Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition in the limit of large dimensions-Insights and outlook.- Fermi and non-fermi liquid behavior in quantum impurity systems: Conserving slave boson theory.- Quantum spin systems: From spin gaps to pseudo gaps.- Modulated phases in spin-Peierls systems.- Magnetic frustration and spin-Peierls transition in CuGeO3.- Mesoscopic effects in the thermopower of dilute AuFe alloys.- Re-entrant spin susceptibility of ultrasmall superconducting grains.- Two-quasiparticle tunneling and subgap structure in all-superconducting single-electron transistors.- Fixed-N superconductivity: The crossover from the bulk to the few-electron limit.- Heavy-fermion superconductivity induced by antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations.- Self-organized charge confinement in cuprate superconductors: Effects on the normal-and superconducting state.- Nucleation of stable superconductivity in YBCO-films.- RE-Ba-Cu-O bulk materials: Thermodynamics, proceeding, properties control.- Junctions and interfaces in D-wave superconductors.- Reversible laser annealing and magneto-optical characterization of HTSC thin films.- Doping dependence of the antiferromagnetic correlations in La2?x SrxCuO4 and Y1?x CaxBa2Cu3O6.- Coherence properties of resonant secondary emission.- Time- and phase-resolved resonant Rayleigh scattering by wannier excitons in a 2D potential with disorder.- Emission from radiatively coupled periodic quantum well structures.- Optical and structural properties connected with partial ordering in the ternary compound semiconductor GalnP.- Excitonic coherence in semiconductor nanostructures measured by speckle analysis.- Phase sensitive femtosecond spectroscopy of semiconductors.- High-intensity laser pulse propagation in semiconductors.- Ultrafast spectral interferometry of resonant secondary emission from semiconductor quantum wells.- Room-temperature near-field reflection spectroscopy of semiconductor nanostructures.- Versatile probes for scanning probe microscopy.- Magneto-optic microscopy beyond the diffraction limit: Facts, trends, and dreams.- Growth studies of hetero-epitaxial thin films with x-rays.- Fracture mechanisms and strength of thin films.- Laser nitriding of iron and steel.- Optical spectroscopy methods applied during semiconductor layer growth.- How much information is carried by fluctuation spectra?.