Charge transfer between weakly coupled normal metals and superconductors at low temperatures -- Quantum effects and the onset of superconductivity in granular films -- Pattern formation in a liquid crystal -- X-ray absorption and reflection in materials sciences -- Propagation of large-wavevector acoustic phonons new perspectives from phonon imaging -- Theory of dynamical surface states and reconstructions at crystal surfaces -- Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy on clean and metal-covered Si surfaces -- Optical dephasing and orientational relaxation of wannier-excitons and free carriers in GaAs and GaAs/AlxGa1?xAs quantum wells -- The spectroscopic evidence for the identity of EL2 and the AsGa antisite in As-grown GaAs -- On the charge state of the EL2 mid gap level semi-insulating GaAs from a quantitative analysis of the compensation -- Deep donor levels (DX centers) in III–V semiconductors: Recent experimental results -- Chemical binding, stability and metastability of defects in semiconductors -- A new look at the reliability of thin film metallizations for microelectronic devices -- Quantum dot resonant tunneling spectroscopy -- DC and far infrared experiments on deep mesa etched single and multi-layered quantum wires -- Coherent electron focusing -- The size-induced metal-insulator transition and related electron interference phenomena in modern microelectronics.