High-Temperature Superconductors in 1992 Welcome Address.- I General Properties, Preparation, Structure.- Charge Dynamics in Metallic CuO2 Layers.- Superconductivity in the Infinite-Layer Phase Stabilized Under High Pressure.- Crystal Chemistry and Superconductivity in M(Ba1?ySry)2RECu2Ox.- Superconducting Mixed-Metal Oxide Compounds of the Type Sr2Ln1.5Ce0.5MCu2O10??, Ln = Sm, Eu, M = Nb, Ta.- II Applications, Film Preparation.- High-Tc Superconductivity: Present Status of Applications.- Recent High-Tc-SQUID Developments.- Epitaxial YBCO Films on MgO, SrTiO3, Si, and GaAs by Thermal Coevaporation.- Preparation and Patterning of (110) Oriented YBaCuO Thin Films.- YBa2Cu3O7/PrBa2Cu3O7 Superlattices: Properties of Ultrathin YBa2Cu3O7 Layers.- Synthesis of New HTS by Pulsed Laser Deposition.- Epitaxial Growth of Thin-Film Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x on LaA1O3(001), NdGaO3(001) and MgO(001).- III Transport Properties, Thermal Properties.- Aspects of Quantum Coherence in Superconducting Rings: Flux Quantisation in a Heavy Fermion/Niobium Hybrid Ring and the Origin of Noise in a HTC DC SQUID.- Effect of Thermodynamic Fluctuations on the Transport Properties in YBaCuO Thin Films.- Metallic Weak-Link Character of Grain Boundaries in High-Tc Materials.- The Chemical Potential and Thermodynamic Properties of Narrow-Band Superconductors.- Nonequilibrium Properties of HTSC Under Microwave Irradiation.- Hall Effect of Epitaxial YBa2Cu3O7?x and Bi2Sr2CaCu2Oy Films.- Anomalous Thermoelectric Power of the High-Tc Materials in Normal State: Both Copper Oxides and C60 Fullerene.- On the Valency of Pr in (Y1?xPrx)Ba2Cu3O7.- Anisotropy of Transport Properties of HTSC Monocrystals.- IV High-Energy Spectroscopies.- On the Surface-Derived State of Cleaved YBa2Cu3O7?? Single Crystals.- Investigation of the Electronic Structure of High-Temperature Superconductors by Polarized X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy.- Unusual Temperature-Dependent Behavior of the Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+? Energy Gap.- Metal and Semiconductor Overlayers on Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+?.- Electronic Properties of T*-Nd1.4Ce0.2Sr0.4CuO4??.- V Hyperfine Interactions, Magnetic Properties.- to the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) in High-Tc Superconductors.- Probing the Electronic Structure of Y-Ba-Cu-O Superconductors by Cu, O and Ba NQR and NMR.- NMR Investigation of Low-Energy Excitations in YBa2Cu3O6+x Single Crystals.- Vortex Lattice and Vortex Motion in YBa2Cu3O7?? and YBa2Cu4O8 Superconductors from 89Y NMR.- Neutron Scattering Investigation of the Spin Dynamics in the High-Temperature Superconducting System YBa2Cu3O6+x.- 205Tl NMR in the High-Tc Superconductor T12Ba2CaCu2O8??.- Effects of Ni to Cu Substitution in La2CuO4 from 139La NQR and Relaxation.- 1H-NMR in YBa2Cu3O7??Hx.- Probing the Flux Distribution of Thin Films by Surface Spin Probes.- VI Optical Spectroscopy, Raman Scattering.- Possible Origins of the Continuum in the Cu-O Plane-Polarized Raman Spectra of Copper-Oxide Superconductors.- Phonon Self-Energy Effects in YBa2Cu3O7?? Below Tc: The Role of Oxygen Disorder.- Normal-State Conductivity of Cuprate Superconductors: One-Component and Two-Component Viewpoints.- Resonant Raman Scattering in Bi2Sr2Ca1?zYzCu2O8+? Single Crystals.- Normal-State Infrared Response from Ellipsometric Measurements: YBa2Cu3O7 and PrBa2CU3O7.- Change of Electronic Structures with Varying Lattice Distortion and Metal Valence in Titanium and Vanadium Oxides.- Tests for Nonreciprocal Optical Effects in High-Temperature Superconductors.- Search for Time Reversal Symmetry Violation in High-Temperature Superconductors.- Far-Infrared Applications of High-Temperature Superconductors: Fabry-Perot Resonators and Fast Detectors.- Application of YBa2Cu3O7?? Thin Films on Silicon Substrates for Far-Infrared Fabry-Perot Resonators.- Giant Voltages Upon Surface Heating in Normal YBa2Cu3O7?? Films Explained by an Atomic-Layer Thermopile.- Study of Residual Absorption of High-Tc Thin Films by Means of Photothermal Interference Spectroscopy.- Damping of Spin Excitations in the HTC-Cuprates: Undoped and Lightly Doped Material.- Raman Study of the Order Parameter in Oxide Superconductors.- Impurities and Raman Scattering in High-Tc Superconductors.- Polarization-Dependent Electronic Raman Scattering in Single Crystals of REBa2Cu3O7?x.- Chain-Oxygen Vibrations and Phonon Anomalies Above Tc in RBa2Cu3O7 and YBa2Cu4O8.- Phonon Softening and Electron-Phonon Interaction in YBa2Cu3O7??.- Phonon Behavior in the Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O-System.- Optical and Electrical Properties of Rare-Earth Substituted Ceramic Samples of the Y-Ba-Cu-O-System.- Far-Infrared Properties of Y1?xPrxBa2Cu3Oy Ceramics.- Influence of the Oxygen Content on the Optical Conductivity Function of YBa2Cu3Ox (6 ? X ? 7).- Effect of Cu-O Planes and Oxygen Content on Optical Properties of BISCO Crystals.- Optical Anisotropy and Electron-Phonon Coupling in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 Single Crystals.- Midgap Electronic States in Semiconducting YBa2Cu3O6+x: A NIR Excited Raman Investigation.- Optical Absorption due to Pr3+ 4f-4f Transitions in PrBa2Cu3Ox (x ? 6).- VII Theory.- One- and Two-Particle Excitations in Doped Mott-Hubbard Insulators.- Consistent Description of High-Tc Superconductors with the Three-Band Hubbard Model: Quantum Monte Carlo Studies.- Relation Between Transition Temperature, London Penetration Depth and Kosterlitz-Thouless Behavior in Superconductors.- "Small" Masses and Strong Coupling in High-Tc Superconductors and in Heavy-Fermion Compounds.- Electronic Structure and Superconductivity in YBa2Cu3O7/PrBa2Cu3O7 Superlattices.- Intermediate Range Order in the Possibility of Nonlinear Excitations in the Doping Subsystems of Cuprates.- Phase Separation and High-Tc Superconductivity.- Temperature-Dependent Phase Separation in the Emery Model.- Pairing Interaction Induced by Distortive Electron-Lattice Coupling.- Cooperative Electronic Phenomena in High-Tc Superconductors.- Calculation of Electronic Excitation and Ionization Process in High-Tc Superconductors.- Investigation of Tunneling, Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Negative-U Local-Pair Model for Oxide High-Tc Superconductors.- Electric Field Gradient Calculations of PrBa2Cu3O7.- Are There Ordering Effects in Ba(Pb,Bi)O3 and (Ba,K)BiO3?.- Constraint-FLAPW Calculations and Determination of Hubbard Model-Parameters for BaBiO3.- Electronic Structure Aspects of the Pressure Dependence of Tc in High-Tc Superconductors.- Charge-Transfer Interplay Between Cu-O Planes in the YBa2Cu3O7?? Family of Superconductors: Its Dependence on Oxygen Ordering and Stoichiometry.- Anharmonic Effects in the Apex O Phonon in Relation to the Background Continuum in High-Tc Cuprates.- VIII Fullerenes.- Fullerenes and Fullerites: New Forms of Carbon.- Temperature- and Doping-Induced Phase Transitions in C60.- Preparation of Single-Crystal Buckminster Fullerenes from Transport Reactions.- Superconducting Properties of Fullerenes Doped with Binary Thallium Alloys.- Electronic Structure Studies of Fullerites and Fullerides.- X-Ray Absorption Study of Iodine-Doped C60.- In-situ UV/VIS and Infrared Spectroscopy of Potassium-Doped C60.- Infrared Absorption by Charged Phonons in Doped C60.- Van der Waals Cohesion and Plasmon Excitations in C60 Fullerite.- Fullerene Field-Effect Transistors.- High-Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy of Thin C60 Films.- Electronic Structure of Alkali-Metal Doped C60: Dependence of the Fermi-Level Densities of States on the Lattice Parameter.- Index of Contributors.
