Properties and Applications of Amorphous Materials

1. Structure.- The Structure of Amorphous Materials.- Short- and Medium-Range Order in Ge-(S,Se) Glasses Using Raman Scattering.- Structural Characterization of Amorphous GexSe100-x by Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy.- Structural Relaxation in Amorphous Materials.- Thermal Properties Studied on As2Se3 Model Glass.- Vibrational Excitations in Amorphous Materials.- 2. Self -Organization and Rigidity.- Rigidity and Self-Organization of Network Glasses and the Intermediate Phase.- Onset of Rigidity in Steps in Chalcogenide Glasses: The Intermediate Phase.- Network Stiffening and Chemical Ordering in Chalcogenide Glasses: 119Sn and 121Sb Mößbauer Spectroscopy of the Systems Ge(Sn)-As-Se and Ge(Sn)-Sb-Se.- The Chemical Threshold in Chalcogenide Glasses.- Stochastic Matrix and Self-Organization in Glasses.- 3. Electronic Structure.- First Principles Electronic Structure Methods.- Electronic Structure of Amorphous Insulators and Photo-Structural Effects in Chalcogenide Glasses.- The Electronic Properties of Nano, Micro and Amorphous Silicon.- Transport in Amorphous Semiconductors.- 4. Photoinduced Effects.- Nanometer-Scale Photo-Induced Structural Changes in Chalcogenide Glasses.- Photoinduced Effects in Amorphous Semiconductors.- Modeling of Photoinduced Anisotropies in Chalcogenide Glasses.- Structure and Optically Induced Changes of Reactivity and Optical Properties of Amorphous Chalcogenides.- 5. Amorphous Silicon and Carbon.- Preparation and Structural Properties of Tetrahedrally Bonded Amorphous Carbon.- Mechanical, Optical and Electrical Properties of Tetrahedrally Bonded Amorphous Carbon.- Field Emission from Carbon Films Grown by the Cathodic Arc Process.- Amorphous Silicon Materials and Devices for Active Matrix Arrays.- Optical Properties of Amorphous andMicrocrystalline Silicon Layers.- Photograph.- Participants.