Proceedings of the US-Japan Seminar on Atomic Processes Induced by Electronic Excitation in Non-metallic Solids, Nagoya, Japan, September 11-15, 1989

Aspect of atomic processes induced by electronic excitations in non-metallic solids -- Theory of defect processes: basic issues in quantitative understanding -- Self-trapping processes manifested in the optical spectra of strongly coupled exciton-phonon systems -- Study of polaron effects on optical processes in a simple model system -- Coexistence and competition of two types of self-trapping for two-dimensional excitons -- Hole dimerization mechanisms for laser sputtering and high-temperature superconductivity -- Discontinuous change of superconductivity from BCS-type to bipolaron-type in strongly coupled electron-phonon systems -- Modification of defect structures in semiconductors by electronic excitation -- DX-like centers in solids (metastability, bistability and negative-U) -- Defect dynamics studied by resonant secondary radiation -- The influence of electronic excitation on the performance and reliability of semiconductor devices -- The off-center self-trapped exciton in alkali halides -- New aspects of intrinsic luminescence in alkali halides -- Adiabatic potentials for self-trapped excitons in alkali halides -- Dichotomization process of self-trapped exciton into asymmetric electron-hole pair -- Free exciton luminescence and resonance raman scattering in Nai -- Defect formation in alkali halides -- Picosecond and subpicosecond optical spectroscopy for the study off-center formation in KBr and RbBr at 296 K -- F centers induced by picosecond optical excitation of self-trapped excitons in alkali halide cyrstals -- Auger-free luminescence under core level excitations of ionic crystals -- Migration, trapping, and IR flourescence of CN vibrational excitations in alkali halide cyrstals -- Optical and thermal bistability of FH(OH) centers KBr: endor analysis of the microscopic structures of the bistable configurations -- Photo-calorimetric study on non-radiative processes in silver chloride -- The role of laser-induced defects in intrinsic laser damage -- The structure of the self-trapped exciton in quartz -- Theory of defects and defect processes in silicon dioxide -- Electron spin resonance investigations of defects and defect processes in amorphous silicon dioxide -- Photoexcited polarons in high temperature superconducting oxides: structural distortion and low frequency polarizability -- Defect reactions, thermal equilibrium and metastability in a-Si: H -- Nature of self-trapped holes and their role in photo-induced phenomena in a-Si: H -- Photoinduced structural changes in chalcogenide glasses -- Light induced crystallization of amorphous GeSe2 -- Photoluminescence and defect formation in amorphous SiO2 -- Theory of intrinsic electronic states and lattice relaxation processes amorphous semiconductors -- Electron and photon stimulated desorption -- Photostimulated desorption of no chemisorbed on Pt(100) induced by valence electron excitation -- Atomic and molecular spectra from electron-excited alkali halides -- Photo-induced production of CN-Ions on the crystal surface of KCI -- Defect processes in the silver halide: photography.