CONTENTS -- Preface -- Epitaxial-like Growth of Lead Phthalocyanine Layers on GaAs(001) Surfaces L Riele, B. Buick, E. Speiser, B.-O. Fimland, P. Vogt, W. Richter -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental -- 2.1. Sample Preparation -- 2.2. Raman Spectroscopy -- 3. Results -- 4. Conclusion and Summary -- References -- Optical Properties of Nanostructured Metamaterials E. Cortes, B. S. Mendoza. W. L Mochan, G. Ortiz -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theory -- 2.1. Haydock's recursion -- 3. Results -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Ab Initio Long-Wavelength Properties of Metallic Systems: Iron and Magnesium M. Cazzaniga, L Caramella, N. Manini, P. Salvestrini, G. Onida -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 3. The intraband contributions -- 4. Applications -- 4.1. Iron -- 4.2. Magnesium -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Magnetic Second-Harmonic Generation from Interfaces and N anostructures J. F.McGilp -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Extension to aligned nanostructures -- 3. NI MSHG from magnetic nanostructures of 1m symmetry -- 4. Temperature-dependent MSHG from Fe nanostructures -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Optical Investigations of the Interface Formation between Organic Molecules and Semiconductor Surfaces T. Bruhn, L Riele, B.-O. Fimland, N. Esser, P. Vogt -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental -- 3. Results and Discussion -- 3.1. A) RAS monitoring of molecular physisorption or chemisorption -- 3.2. B) RAS monitoring of intra-molecular transitions -- 3.3. C) Thicker organic layers and growth behavior -- 4. Summary -- 5. Acknowledgement -- References -- Reflection Anisotropy Spectroscopy Studies of Thiolate/ Metal Interfaces D. S. Martin -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Thiolate/Cu(110) surfaces -- 3. Simulating the data - a four-phase model -- 4. Thiolate/ Au(110) surfaces -- 5. Conclusions.

References -- The Physics of X-ray Free Electron Lasers (X-FELs): An Elementary Approach P. R. Rebemik Ribic, G. Margaritondo -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lasing with Free Electrons: Classical Version of a Quantum Effect -- 3. Optical Amplification is Here: So What? -- 4. A Simple Description of the Optical Amplification -- 5. Theory Refinement -- 6. Phase Effects: Gain Saturation -- 7. Characteristics of the FEL Pulse -- 7.1. Pulse Duration -- 7.2. Spectral bandwidth -- 7.3. Rlllliated power -- 8. Did We Keep Our Promises? -- Acknowledgments -- References -- The Decisive Role of Interface Phonons in Polaron State Formation in Quantum Nanostructures A. Yu. Maslov, O . V. Proshina -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Polaron states in quantum nanostructures -- 3. Results and discussion -- References -- Dielectric Analysis on Optical Properties of Silver Nano Particles in ZrO2 Thin Film Prepared by Sol-Gel Method M. Wakaki, E. Yokoyama -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Preparation and characterization of ZrO2 thin films with silver nanoparticles -- 3. Analysis on absorption spectra using effective medium approximation (EMA) -- References -- Towards ab initio Calculation of the Circular Dichroism of Peptides E. Molteni, G. Onida, G. Tiana -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Circular dichroism -- 3. Methods and investigated systems -- 4. Results -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Dynamics and Spectral Properties of Free-Standing NegativelyCurved Carbon Surfaces M. De Corato, G. Benedek -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Adjacency matrix -- 2. The adjacency matrix -- 3. Topological phonon spectra of curved sp2 carbon surfaces -- 4. Planar G-type schwarzites -- 5. Vibrational spectra of pure and defective planar schwarzites -- 6. Conclusions -- 7. Acknowledgements -- References.