P D M S Introduction -- Spectroscopy of metal clusters -- Cluster evaporation and desorption: Experimental determination of binding energies -- A penning trap for studying cluster ions -- Neutral yields in electronic sputtering of biomolecules -- The electronic structure of AS4S4, S4N4 and related clusters: A gas phase UPS and SCC-X? MO study/1/ -- Treatment of small metallic clusters with quantum chemical methods -- Desorption of large organic molecules and clusters by fast ion impact -- Sputtering of salt cluster ions from liquids by keV particle impact -- 252Cf-desorption of small clusters from Al2O3, MgO and SiO2 surfaces -- Ion track aspects of electronic sputtering -- Thermal spike model for heavy ion induced desorption -- Charge of fast heavy ions in solid: Application to desorption process -- Desorption mechanism of aminoacid compounds analysed by PDMS -- Continuum mechanical model for heavy ion induced desorption -- Adatoms and adclusters: On imaging studies by scanning tunneling microscopy -- Model calculations of singly and doubly charged clusters of (S2) metals -- From micro-systems to macro-systems: What size is a metal? -- Analytic cluster model, as a bridge between molecular and solid state physics -- Magic numbers and their origin — Are rigid cores realistic? -- Ground state properties of small matrix-isolated molecules: FeH, FeN, FeCO and FeCO) 2 -- Computer simulation of cluster thermodynamics -- Nickel clusters as surface models for adsorption -- Self-consistent charge X? calculations on small titanium compounds and TiO2 Clusters -- Heavy ion induced desorption from solid surfaces -- Correlation effects of secondary ions in 252Cf-PDMS -- Temperature effects of secondary ion emission -- The use of nitrocellulose backings in 252-Californium PDMS -- Sample thickness influence on the desorption yield of small bio-molecular ions -- Cluster physics — some remarks.