CONTENTS -- Preface -- Theory of Surface Optical Properties Rodolfo Del Sole Maurizia Palummo Olivia Pulci -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Three-layers model -- 3 Microscopic calculation of the surface contribution to reflectance -- 4 Realistic calculations -- 5 Tight-binding calculations -- 6 Self-consistent pseudopotential calculations -- 7 Application to GaAs(110) -- 8 Application to Si(100) -- 9 Conclusion -- References -- The Application of Reflectance Anisotropy Spectroscopy to Organics Deposition G Bussetti, C Goletti, P Chiaradia, T Berzina, E Dalcanale S Nardis A Froiio, R Paolesse, E Mazzone, C Di Natale A D'Amico -- References -- First-Principles Optical Spectra of Semiconductor Surfaces From One-Particle to Many-Body Approach Maurizia Palummo, Olivia Pulci, Rodolfo Del Sole -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Density Functional theory for the ground state and as starting point for excited states calculations -- 3 The Green Function theory the quasi-particle formulation -- 4 The dielectric Function and Local-field effects -- 5 The Bethe-Salpeter equation -- 6 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Ab-lnitio Optical Properties of Bn(110) and GaN(110) Surfaces G Cappellini G Satta, M Palummo, G Onida -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Stiuctuial Plopelties of BN(110) aid GaN(110) Sui faces -- 3 Surface Optical Plopexties -- 4 Acknowledgments -- References -- Longitudinal Gauge Theory of Second Harmonic Generation at Semiconductor Surfaces B S Mendoza -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Longitudinal Gauge calculation of x -- 3 Gauge Invariance -- 4 SHG Radiation -- 5 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Optical Second Harmonic Generation and the Characterisation of Low Dimensional Nanostructures on Planar Silicon J F McGilp -- 1 Introduction and phenomenology -- 2 Expenmental Techniques.

3 The nonlinear optical response of low-dimensional nanostructures on planar silicon -- 3 I Growth of single domain structures -- 3 2 The Si(III)-4xl-In structure -- 3 3 SHG studies of Si(III)-4xI-In -- 4 Conclusion -- 5 Acknowledgements -- References -- Nonlinear Optical Properties of Oligothiophene Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold Substrate T Tamura, E Mishina, Y Miyakita Q -K Yu, S Nakabayashi -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND -- 3 EXPERIMENT -- 4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- References -- Second-Harmonic Generation and Photoemission from A1 Quantum Wells on Si(111)7x7 K Pedersen P K Kristensen J Rafaelsen, N Skivesen T G Pedersen P Morgen Z Li S V Hofiann -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Experimental details -- 3 Experimental results and discussion -- 3 I Core level spectra -- 3 2 Valence band spectra -- 3 3 Second harmonic generation -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Femtosecond Sum Frequency Generation on Molecular Adsorbates Mischa Bonn -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Femtosecond SFG approaches -- 3 Interferences in SFG blessing or curse" -- 4 Studies of surface dynamics using femtosecond SFG -- 5 Summary and conclusions -- 6 Acknowledgements -- References -- Fabrication and Characterization of Organic Light Emitting Diodes Based on Alq, S Gambino G Baldacchini S Gagliardr S Loreti R M Montereall A Pace F Michelotti F Onorati -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sample preparation -- 3 Experimental results and discussion -- 4 Conclusions -- 5 Acknowledgements -- References -- Optical Spectroscopy and Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy on He+ Irradiated Lithium Fluoride Crystals V Mussi A Cricenti, R M Montereali, B Jacquiel -- P Moretti E Nichelatti F Somma -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Results and discussion -- 2 1 Spectroscopic measurements -- 2 2 SNOM measurements -- 3 Conclusions -- References.

"Supersohtons" in Infinite Arrays of Plane-Parallel Layers or Coupled Identical Optical Waveguides Igor V Gerasimchuk, Alexander S Kovalev -- Abstract. -- REFERENCES -- Atomic Force Microscopy as a Tool for Biophysical and Cellular Biology Studies M Girasole, A Cricenti -- 1 APOPTOSIS -- 1 1 Sample preparation and analysis -- 2 METAL DOPING -- 2 1 Sample preparation -- 2 2 Results -- 3 RBC AND ROUGHNESS -- 3 1 Material and Methods -- 3 2 Methodological aspects -- 3 3 Results -- 4 GENERAL CONCLUSIONS -- Acknowledgement -- REFERENCES -- Phase Contrast Radiology in Matenals Science Y Hwu Wen Li Tsar, A Groso G Margaritondo Jung Ho Je -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Conceptual Background -- 3 Validation Tests -- 4 Examples of Applications in Materials Science -- 5 Acknowledgements -- References -- Resonant Magneto-Optical Phenomena in Structures With Two-Dimensional Electron Plasma V V Popov -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Model and basic equations -- 3 Uniform magneto-optical resonances -- 4 Non-uniform magneto-optical resonances -- 5 Conclusions -- 6 Acknowledgments -- References -- Nonlinear Magneto-Optics Principles and Applications for Magnetic Thin Films Theo Rasing -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theory -- 3 Experimental considerations -- 4 Applications to magnetic surfaces and interfaces -- 5 Symmetry considerations -- 6 Conclusions -- 7 Acknowledgements -- References -- Inhomogeneous Luminescence from Exciton-Polanton Modes in Quantum Well T V Teperik V V Popov, N J M Honng -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Ultrafast Magnetization Switching Dynamics Theo Rasing -- Abstract -- 1 Introduchon -- 2 Precessional dynamics -- 3 Experimental set up Generabon of field pulses and the probing of magnetizabon dynamics -- 4 Field induced precession dynamics -- 5 Coherent magnetization reversal by field pulse shaping -- Summary -- Acknowledgements -- REFERENCES.