Festkörperprobleme 17: Plenary Lectures of the Divisions “Semiconductor Physics” “Metal Physics” “Low Temperature Physics” “Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics” “Crystallography” “Magnetism” “Surface Physics” of the German Physical Society Münster, Mar

Acoustic and dielectric properties of glasses at low temperatures....Pages 1-11 Phases and phase transitions of liquid crystals....Pages 13-23 Metallic glasses....Pages 25-53 Theory of spin glasses: A brief review....Pages 55-84 Radiative recombination in amorphous semiconductors....Pages 85-107 Modern theories of chemical bonding in crystals....Pages 109-134 The physics of solid state chemistry....Pages 135-155 Scattering of free electrons and dynamical conductivity....Pages 157-193 Wannier-mott polaritons in magnetic fields....Pages 195-234 Modulation spectroscopy with synchrotron radiation....Pages 235-259 Channeling—The lattice steering of swift charged particles through crystalline solids....Pages 261-299 Chemisorption of H, O and CO on transition metals....Pages 301-317 Magnetic moments of rare earth ions in a metallic environment....Pages 319-350 Materials quality and process control in integrated circuits manufacture....Pages 351-380 Microprocessors and microcomputers: Large scale integrated semiconductor components....Pages 381-402