Comptes Rendus. Physique, Volume 6 (2005)

Issue no. 1 Table of Contents

Self-organization on surfaces

Guest editor: O. Fruchart

Comité de rédaction

p. CO2

Dossier Sommaire

p. 1-2

Self-organization on surfaces: foreword

Olivier Fruchart

p. 3-9

Dynamics of crystal steps

Presented by: Guy Laval

Olivier Pierre-Louis

p. 11-21

Formation of self-assembled quantum dots induced by the Stranski–Krastanow transition: a comparison of various semiconductor systems

Presented by: Guy Laval

Henri Mariette

p. 23-32

Self-organized epitaxial growth on spontaneously nano-patterned templates

Presented by: Guy Laval

Sylvie Rousset; Bernard Croset; Yann Girard; Geoffroy Prévot; Vincent Repain; Stanislas Rohart

p. 33-46

X-ray methods for strain and composition analysis in self-organized semiconductor nanostructures

Presented by: Guy Laval

Till Hartmut Metzger; Tobias Urs Schülli; Martin Schmidbauer

p. 47-59

Epitaxial self-organization: from surfaces to magnetic materials

Presented by: Guy Laval

Olivier Fruchart

p. 61-73

Magnetic anisotropy from single atoms to large monodomain islands of Co/Pt(111)

Presented by: Guy Laval

Pietro Gambardella; Stefano Rusponi; T. Cren; Nicolas Weiss; Harald Brune

p. 75-87

Three-dimensional stacking of self-assembled quantum dots in multilayer structures

Presented by: Guy Laval

Gunther Springholz

p. 89-103

Nanometric artificial structuring of semiconductor surfaces for crystalline growth

Presented by: Guy Laval

J. Eymery; G. Biasiol; E. Kapon; T. Ogino

p. 105-116

Organometallic approach to nanoparticles synthesis and self-organization

Presented by: Guy Laval

Bruno Chaudret

p. 117-131

Physics/Mathematical physics, theoretical physics

A new reconstruction method in the Fourier domain for 3D positron emission tomography

Presented by: Maurice Goldman

Denis Mariano-Goulart; Jean-François Crouzet

p. 133-137

Physique/Surfaces, interfaces, films

Influence du gel sur les propriétés des polychloroprènes
[Effect of the gel contents on the properties of Polychloroprene]

Presented by: Jacques Villain

Françoise Cochet; Solweig Vitry; Jean-Yves Cavaille; Alain Guyot

p. 139-143

Physique/Surfaces, Interfaces, Films

Réseaux denses de défauts linéaires interfaciaux et dislocations de Somigliana
[Dense networks of interfacial linear defects and Somigliana dislocations]

Presented by: Jacques Villain

Ahlem Boussaid; Mustapha Fnaiech; Roland Bonnet

p. 145-150

Physique/Physique appliquée

Un Réseau de Petit Monde local à sites pondérés pour les feux de forêts
[A weighed local Small World Network for forest fires]

Presented by: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Bernard Porterie; Nouredine Zekri; Jean-Pierre Clerc; Jean-Claude Loraud

p. 151-157

Editorial Board

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Issue no. 2 Table of Contents

Strings, gravity, and the quest for unification - Strings 04, part II

Guest editor: I. Antoniadis

Comité de rédaction

p. CO2

Dossier

p. 159-160

Strings, Gravity, and the Quest for Unification/Cordes, gravitation, et la quête d'unification

Foreword

David Gross

p. 161-162

Strings 04 conference delegates

p. 163

Strings, gravity, and the quest for unification/Cordes, gravitation, et la quête d'unification

Minimal string theory

Presented by: Guy Laval

Nathan Seiberg; David Shih

p. 165-174

Strings, gravity, and the quest for unification/Cordes, gravitation, et la quête d'unification

Ricci flows and their integrability in two dimensions

Presented by: Guy Laval

Ioannis Bakas

p. 175-184

Strings, gravity, and the quest for unification/Cordes, gravitation, et la quête d'unification

Covariant multiloop superstring amplitudes

Presented by: Guy Laval

Nathan Berkovits

p. 185-197

Strings, gravity, and the quest for unification/Cordes, gravitation, et la quête d'unification

No-scale supergravity from higher dimensions

Presented by: Guy Laval

Riccardo D'Auria; Sergio Ferrara; Mario Trigiante

p. 199-208

Strings, gravity, and the quest for unification/Cordes, gravitation, et la quête d'unification

Modular bootstrap of boundary

N = 2

Liouville theory

Presented by: Guy Laval

Tohru Eguchi

p. 209-217

Strings, gravity, and the quest for unification/Cordes, gravitation, et la quête d'unification

Super Yang–Mills, matrix models and geometric transitions

Presented by: Guy Laval

Frank Ferrari

p. 219-230

Strings, gravity, and the quest for unification/Cordes, gravitation, et la quête d'unification

Wormholes in AdS

Presented by: Guy Laval

Liat Maoz

p. 231-241

Strings, gravity, and the quest for unification/Cordes, gravitation, et la quête d'unification

What is inside a black hole?

Presented by: Guy Laval

Samir D. Mathur

p. 243-250

Strings, gravity, and the quest for unification/Cordes, gravitation, et la quête d'unification

Anomalies, Gauss laws, and Page charges in M-theory

Presented by: Guy Laval

Gregory W. Moore

p. 251-259

Strings, gravity, and the quest for unification/Cordes, gravitation, et la quête d'unification

Z-theory: chasing

m / f

theory

Presented by: Guy Laval

Nikita Nekrasov

p. 261-269

Strings, gravity, and the quest for unification/Cordes, gravitation, et la quête d'unification

Field theory supertubes

Presented by: Guy Laval

Paul K. Townsend

p. 271-277

Editorial Board

p. CO3

Issue no. 3 Table of Contents

The Near Earth Objects : possible impactors of the Earth

Guest editor: Marcello Fulchignoni Maria Antonietta Barucci

Comité de rédaction

p. CO2

Dossier

p. iii-iv

The Near Earth Objects: possible impactors of the Earth/Les astéroïdes geocroiseurs : impacteurs potentiels de la Terre

Foreword

Maria Antonietta Barucci; Marcello Fulchignoni

p. 279-281

The Near Earth Objects: possible impactors of the Earth/Les astéroïdes geocroiseurs : impacteurs potentiels de la Terre

NEO Impact Consequences and Hazards

Presented by: Pierre Encrenaz

Marcello Fulchignoni; M. Antonietta Barucci

p. 283-289

The Near Earth Objects: possible impactors of the Earth/Les astéroïdes geocroiseurs : impacteurs potentiels de la Terre

Origin and dynamics of Near Earth Objects

Presented by: Pierre Encrenaz

Patrick Michel; Alessandro Morbidelli; William F. Bottke

p. 291-301

The Near Earth Objects: possible impactors of the Earth/Les astéroïdes geocroiseurs: impacteurs potentiels de la Terre

Surface compositions of NEOs

Presented by: Pierre Encrenaz

Elisabetta Dotto; M. Antonietta Barucci; Richard P. Binzel; Marco Delbó

p. 303-312

The Near Earth Objects: possible impactors of the Earth/Les astéroïdes geocroiseurs : impacteurs potentiels de la Terre

NEO sizes, shapes and surface physical properties

Presented by: Pierre Encrenaz

A. Chantal Levasseur-Regourd; Marcello Fulchignoni; Marco Delbó; Richard P. Binzel

p. 313-320

The Near Earth Objects: possible impactors of the Earth/Les astéroïdes geocroiseurs : impacteurs potentiels de la Terre

Internal structure of Near-Earth Objects

Presented by: Pierre Encrenaz

Richard P. Binzel; Wlodek Kofman

p. 321-326

The Near Earth Objects: possible impactors of the Earth/Les astéroïdes geocroiseurs : impacteurs potentiels de la Terre

Relevance of the NEO dedicated observing programs

Presented by: Pierre Encrenaz

William Thuillot; Jérémie Vaubaillon; Hans Scholl; François Colas; P. Rocher; Mirel Birlan; Jean-Eudes Arlot

p. 327-335

The Near Earth Objects: possible impactors of the Earth/Les astéroïdes geocroiseurs impacteurs potentiels de la Terre

Close encounters and collisions of Near-Earth asteroids with the Earth

Presented by: Pierre Encrenaz

Giovanni B. Valsecchi

p. 337-344

The Near Earth Objects: possible impactors of the Earth/Les astéroïdes geocroiseurs : impacteurs potentiels de la Terre

Meteorites: samples of NEOs in the laboratory

Presented by: Pierre Encrenaz

Claude Perron; Brigitte Zanda

p. 345-360

The Near Earth Objects: possible impactors of the Earth/Les astéroïdes geocroiseurs : impacteurs potentiels de la Terre

Asteroid impact tsunamis

Presented by: Pierre Encrenaz

Christian Kharif; Efim Pelinovsky

p. 361-366

The Near Earth Objects: possible impactors of the Earth/Les astéroïdes geocroiseurs : impacteurs potentiels de la Terre

Mitigation strategy

Presented by: Pierre Encrenaz

Andrea Carusi; Ettore Perozzi; Hans Scholl

p. 367-374

Physics/Mathematical physics, theoretical physics

Time inversion in the representation analysis of magnetic structures

Presented by: Jacques Villain

Jacques Schweizer

p. 375-384

Astrophysique/Techniques astronomiques

Application de la technique du SCIDAR généralisé aux étoiles simples
[Atmospheric-turbulence characterization by single-star scintillation analysis]

Presented by: Antoine Laberie

Abdelfettah Habib; Jean Vernin; Zouhair Benkhaldoun

p. 385-392

Editorial Board

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Issue no. 4-5 Table of Contents

Aircraft trailing vortices

Guest editor: J. Crouch; L. Jacquin

Editorial Board

p. CO2

Dossier Sommaire

p. iii-iv

Foreword

Laurent Jacquin; Jeffrey Crouch

p. 393-394

Aircraft trailing vortices: an introduction

Laurent Jacquin

p. 395-398

Unsteadiness, instability and turbulence in trailing vortices

Laurent Jacquin; David Fabre; Denis Sipp; Eric Coustols

p. 399-414

Experimental investigations on wake vortices and their alleviation

Ömer Savaş

p. 415-429

Physics of vortex merging

Patrice Meunier; Stéphane Le Dizès; Thomas Leweke

p. 431-450

Predicting the near-field evolution of airplane trailing vortices

Michael Czech; Gregory Miller; Jeffrey Crouch; Michail Strelets

p. 451-466

Vortex methods and their application to trailing wake vortex simulations

Grégoire Winckelmans; Roger Cocle; Louis Dufresne; Raphaël Capart

p. 467-486

Airplane trailing vortices and their control

Jeffrey Crouch

p. 487-499

Research towards a wake-vortex advisory system for optimal aircraft spacing

Thomas Gerz; Frank Holzäpfel; Wayne Bryant; Friedrich Köpp; Michael Frech; Arnold Tafferner; Grégoire Winckelmans

p. 501-523

Interaction of exhaust jets and aircraft wake vortices: small-scale dynamics and potential microphysical-chemical transformations

Roberto Paoli; François Garnier

p. 525-547

Formation, properties and climatic effects of contrails

Ulrich Schumann

p. 549-565

Physique/Solides, fluides : propriétés mécanique et thermiques

Évolution du module de cisaillement avec la pression et la température
[Evolution of the shear modulus with pressure and temperature]

Presented by: Robert Dautray

Marie-Hélène Nadal; Philippe Le Poac; Emmanuel Fraizier

p. 567-574

Physics/Applied physics

Conversion of a proton pair para order into ¹³C polarization by rf irradiation, for use in MRI

Presented by: Maurice Goldman

Maurice Goldman; Haukur Jóhannesson

p. 575-581

Editorial Board

p. CO3

Issue no. 6 Table of Contents

Interaction of electromagnetic fields with the environment

Guest editor: Pierre-Noël Favennec; Bernard Picinbono

Editorial Board

p. CO2

Dossier

p. iii-iv

Foreword

Pierre-Noël Favennec

p. 583-584

Modelling of electromagnetic wave interactions with the human body

Man-Faï Wong; Joe Wiart

p. 585-594

A geometrical optics and uniform theory of diffraction based ray tracing optimisation by a genetic algorithm

Romain Matschek

p. 595-603

Fast algorithms for layered media

Weng Cho Chew; Bin Hu; Y.C. Pan; L.J. Jiang

p. 604-617

Shared issues of wavefield inversion and illustrations in 3-D diffusive electromagnetics

Dominique Lesselier; Marc Lambert; Gaële Perrusson

p. 618-625

State of the art in computational methods for the prediction of radar cross-sections and antenna–platform interactions

Frédéric Molinet; Hervé Stève; Jean-Pierre Adam

p. 626-639

Inverse characterization of antennas by equivalent sources using spherical harmonics

Azeddine Gati; Yacine Adane; Man-Faï Wong; Joe Wiart; Victor Fouad-Hanna

p. 640-646

Some numerical models to compute electromagnetic antenna–structure interactions

Nicolas Zerbib; M'Barek Fares; Thierry Koleck; Florence Millot

p. 647-653

Computation of electromagnetic scattering by multilayer dielectric objects using Gaussian beam based techniques

Alexandre Chabory; Jérôme Sokoloff; Sylvain Bolioli; Paul François Combes

p. 654-662

Diffuse reflection by rough surfaces: an introduction

Michel Sylvain

p. 663-674

Sea surface probing with L-band Doppler radar: experiment and theory

Marc Saillard; Philippe Forget; Gabriel Soriano; Maminirina Joelson; Pierre Broche; Philip Currier

p. 675-682

Left-handed propagation media via photonic crystal and metamaterials

Thibaut Decoopman; Thomas Crepin; Mathias Perrin; Sophie Fasquel; Aurélien Marteau; Xavier Mélique; Eric Lheurette; Olivier Vanbésien; Didier Lippens

p. 683-692

Metamaterials: from microwaves to the visible region

Daniel Maystre; Stefan Enoch; Boris Gralak; Gérard Tayeb

p. 693-701

Editorial Board

p. CO3

Issue no. 7 Table of Contents

Neutrino physics

Guest editor: Jean Iliopoulos; Daniel Vignaud

Editorial Board

p. CO2

Dossier

p. iii-iv

Foreword

Jean Iliopoulos; Daniel Vignaud

p. 703-705

Neutrino masses and oscillations: an overview

Jacques Bouchez

p. 706-718

Neutrinos: precursors of new physics

Pierre Ramond

p. 719-728

Solar neutrinos

Michel Cribier; Thomas Bowles

p. 729-738

Atmospheric neutrinos and neutrino oscillations

Takaaki Kajita; Paolo Lipari

p. 739-748

Reactor neutrinos

Thierry Lasserre; Henry W. Sobel

p. 749-757

Accelerator neutrinos

Dario Autiero; Yves Déclais

p. 758-767

Direct determination of the neutrino masses

Christian Weinheimer

p. 768-777

Experimental status on neutrinoless double beta decay searches

Serge Jullian

p. 778-788

High energy neutrino astronomy

Stephan Hundertmark; Antoine Kouchner

p. 789-797

Neutrinos in the early universe

Wilfried Buchmüller

p. 798-809

Physique/Solides, fluides : propriétés magnétiques et électriques

Hydrostatique d'un liquide pesant paramagnétique
[Hydrostatics of a paramagnetic liquid in the gravity field]

Presented by: Jacques Villain

Mohamed Dellagi

p. 811-814

Editorial Board

p. CO3

Issue no. 8 Table of Contents

Molecular spectroscopy and planetary atmospheres

Guest editor: Jean-Michel Hartmann; Jean-Marie Flaud

Editorial Board

p. CO2

Dossier Sommaire

p. iii-iv

Spectroscopy and planetary atmospheres/Spectroscopie et atmosphères planétaires

Foreword

Jean-Marie Flaud; Jean-Michel Hartmann

p. 815-816

Spectroscopy and planetary atmospheres/Spectroscopie et atmosphères planétaires

Infrared spectroscopy of planetary atmospheres

Pierre Drossart

p. 817-824

Spectroscopy and planetary atmospheres/Spectroscopie et atmosphères planétaires

A review of remote sensing techniques and related spectroscopy problems

Sébastien Payan; Jérôme de La Noë; Alain Hauchecorne; Claude Camy-Peyret

p. 825-835

Spectroscopy and planetary atmospheres/Spectroscopie et atmosphères planétaires

Ultraviolet and visible spectroscopy and spaceborne remote sensing of the Earth's atmosphere

Kelly Chance

p. 836-847

Spectroscopy and planetary atmospheres/Spectroscopie et atmosphères planétaires

Atmospheric non-local thermodynamic equilibrium emissions as observed by the Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS)

Manuel López-Puertas; Bernd Funke; Sergio Gil-López; Miguel Á. López-Valverde; Thomas von Clarmann; Herbert Fischer; Hermann Oelhaf; Gabriele Stiller; Martin Kaufmann; M.E. Koukouli; Jean-Marie Flaud

p. 848-863

Spectroscopy and planetary atmospheres/Spectroscopie et atmosphères planétaires

Atmospheric and meteorological Lidar: from pioneers to space applications

Pierre H. Flamant

p. 864-875

Spectroscopy and planetary atmospheres/Spectroscopie et atmosphères planétaires

Spectroscopic challenges for high accuracy retrievals of atmospheric CO₂ and the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) experiment

Charles E. Miller; Linda R. Brown; Robert A. Toth; D. Chris Benner; V. Malathy Devi

p. 876-887

Spectroscopy and planetary atmospheres/Spectroscopie et atmosphères planétaires

Monitoring tropospheric pollution using infrared spectroscopy from geostationary orbit

Johannes Orphal; Gilles Bergametti; Benoît Beghin; Philippe-Jean Hébert; Tilman Steck; Jean-Marie Flaud

p. 888-896

Spectroscopy and planetary atmospheres/Spectroscopie et atmosphères planétaires

History and future of the molecular spectroscopic databases

Laurence S. Rothman; Nicole Jacquinet-Husson; Christian Boulet; Agnès M. Perrin

p. 897-907

Spectroscopy and planetary atmospheres/Spectroscopie et atmosphères planétaires

LIF spectroscopy applied to the study of non-thermal plasmas for atmospheric pollutant abatement

Lionel Magne; Stéphane Pasquiers

p. 908-917

Editorial Board

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Issue no. 9 Table of Contents

Spintronics

Guest editor: A. Fert; J.-P. Nozières

Editorial Board

p. CO2

Dossier Sommaire

p. iii-iv

Foreword

Albert Fert; Jean-Pierre Nozières

p. 919-920

Magnetism in reduced dimensions

Olivier Fruchart; André Thiaville

p. 921-933

Quantum nanomagnet

Bernard Barbara

p. 934-944

Spin dependent transport: GMR & TMR

Alain Schuhl; Daniel Lacour

p. 945-955

Spin Transfer Torque: a new method to excite or reverse a magnetization

Vincent Cros; Olivier Boulle; J. Grollier; Amir Hamzić; M. Muñoz; Luis Gustavo Pereira; Frédéric Petroff

p. 956-965

Spintronic with semiconductors

Jean-Marie George; Marc Elsen; V. Garcia; Henri Jaffrès; Richard Mattana

p. 966-976

Development of new materials for spintronics

Joël Cibert; Jean-François Bobo; Ulrike Lüders

p. 977-996

Magnetic recording read head sensor technology

Jeffrey R. Childress; Robert E. Fontana

p. 997-1012

Non-volatile magnetic random access memories (MRAM)

Ricardo C. Sousa; I. Lucian Prejbeanu

p. 1013-1021

Spin injection into semiconductors: towards a semiconductor-based spintronic device

Ahmad Bsiesy

p. 1022-1026

Physique/Solides, fluides : structure

Résolution de l'équation de Young–Laplace par une méthode géométrique utilisant la courbure
[Resolution of the Young–Laplace equation by a geometrical method using curvature]

Presented by: Jacques Villain

Mathieu Gentes; Germain Rousseaux; Pierre Coullet; Pierre-Gilles De Gennes

p. 1027-1033

Editorial Board

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Issue no. 10 Table of Contents

Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics for very large telescopes

Guest editor: J.-M. Conan; G. Rousset

Editorial Board

p. CO2

Dossier

p. iii-iv