Front Cover; Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics, Volume 18; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors to Volume 18; Foreword; Chapter 1. The Nightglow; I. Definitions; II. Units of Brightness; III. General Spectroscopic Description of the Night Airglow; IV. Nightglow Instrumentation; V. Nightglow Observatories; VI. Nightglow Heights; VII. The Hydroxyl (OH) Nightglow; VIII. Oxygen 5577; IX. Oxygen 6300; X. Sodium D in the Nightglow; XI. Nightglow from the O2 Molecule; XII. Hydrogen Emission in the Nightglow; XIII. Excitation Mechanisms; XIV. Concluding Remarks; References

Chapter 2. Recent Developments in Computer OrganizationI. Introduction; II. Metaprograms; III. Multiprogramming; IV. The Content-Addressed Memory; V. The One-Level Memory; VI. Last-In-First-Out Register Stacks; VII. The Fixed-Plus-Variable-Structure Computer; References; Chapter 3. Atomic Collisions Involving Low Energy Electrons and Ions; List of Symbols; I. Introduction; II. Theoretical Developments; III. Low Energy Elastic and Inelastic Collisions; IV. Attachment and Detachment of Electrons; V. Recombination of Positive Ions with Electrons and with Negative Ions; References

Chapter 4. Semiconductor Device EvaluationI. Introduction; II. The p-n Junction Diode; III. The Junction Transistor; References; List of Symbols; Chapter 5. Electron Emission Microscopy; I. Introduction; II. Electron Optics of a Cathode Lens; III. Photo Emission Microscopy; IV. Secondary Emission Microscopy; V. Ion Induced Emission Microscopy; VI. Thermionic Emission Microscopy; References; Author Index; Subject Index