Front Cover; Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics, Volume 60; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Contributors to Volume 60; Foreword; Chapter 1. Internal Conversion-Electron Spectroscopy; I. Introduction and Historical Remarks; II. Theory of Internal Conversion; III. Experimental Methods; IV. Treatment of Experimental Data; V. Comparison of Theory with Experiment; VI. Role of Internal Conversion in Nuclear Spectroscopy; VII. Environmental Effects on Internal Conversion; VIII. Summary and Outlook; References; Chapter 2. Diffraction of Neutral Atoms and Molecules from Crystalline Surfaces

I. IntroductionII. General Outline; III. Quantum Theory of Atom-Surface Scattering; IV. Structural Information from Elastic Diffraction; V. Information on the Surface Potential Well; VI. Information on Surface Lattice Dynamics; VII. Conclusions; References; Chapter 3. Digital Image Processing; I. Introduction; II. Image Restoration (Deblurring); III. Image Data Compression; IV. Reconstruction from Projections; V. Steps toward Image Analysis/Computer Vision; References; Chapter 4. Recent Trends in Photomultipliers for Nuclear Physics; I. Introduction

II. State of the Art of Photomultiplier TechnologyIII. Present Situation on Main Photomultiplier Characteristics; IV. Conclusion; References; Chapter 5. Thermal and Electrothermal Instabilities in Semiconductors; I. Introduction; II. The Thermistor; III. Thermally Induced Negative Differential Conductance; IV. Thin Chalcogenide Films; V. Vanadium Dioxide; VI. Second Breakdown in Transistors; VII. Summary; Appendix; References; Author Index; Subject Index