Front Cover; Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics, Volume 56; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors to Volume 56; Foreword; Chapter 1. Recent Advances in High-Power Tunable Lasers (UV, Visible, and Near IR); I. Introduction; II. Dye Laser Developments; III. Picosecond and Subpicosecond Tunable Sources; IV. Color Center Lasers; V. Nonlinear Coherent Sources; VI. Other High-Power Tunable Lasers; References; Chapter 2. Radioastronomy on Millimeter Wavelengths; I. Introduction; II. The Development of Millimeter Radioastronomy

III. Astrophysical Achievements and Prospects of Millimeter-Wave AstronomyIV. Observing Conditions and Sites; V. Radiotelescope Fundamentals and the Millimeter Range; VI. Antennas; VII. Receivers; VIII. Evolution and Projects; References; Chapter 3. Photovoltaic Effect; I. Introduction; II. An Overview of Photovoltaic Effects; III. Current Generation; IV. Junction Currents; V. Examples of Photovoltaic Materials Systems; References; Chapter 4. Spin Polarization in Electron Scattering from Surfaces; I. Introduction; II. Spin-Dependent Parameters and Interactions; III. Experimental Apparatus

IV . Spin-Dependent Scattering Due to the Spin-Orbit InteractionV . Spin-Dependent Scattering from Ferromagnetic Materials; VI . Outlook; References; Chapter 5. Solid Surfaces Analysis; I. Introduction; II. Surface Analytical Techniques and Methods; References; Chapter 6. The Inverse Discrete Radon Transform with Applications to Tomographic Imaging Using Projection Data; I. Prologue; II. Introduction; III. The Continuous Radon Transform Pair; IV. Applications of the Radon Transform in Imaging; V. Historical Background and Review of Reconstruction Algorithms

VI. Properties of the Radon TransformVII. Sampling the Radon Transform with Parallel-Beam Projections; VIII. Sampling the Radon Transform with Fan-Beam Projections; IX. The Inverse Discrete Radon Transform; X. Effects of Nonideal Sampling; XI. Conclusion; XII. Epilogue; References; Chapter 7. Spectroscopy of Electrons from High-Energy Ion-Atom Collisions; I. Introduction; II. A Brief Survey of Instrumentation and Basic Concepts of Collision Mechanism; III. Projectiles of Intermediate Energy; IV. High-Energy Projectiles; V. Closing Remarks; References; Author Index; Subject Index