Please find below the preparation guide lines for the manuscript that is due at the first day of the conference. After a peer review during the conference, all accepted contributions will be published in a regular issue of physica status solidi (a).

Instructions for Authors

Accepted papers are considered as regular submissions to physica status solidi (a), published by WILEY-VCH Verlag Berlin.
Manuscripts (written in English) should be printed (or typed) double spaced on one side of paper only and submitted in three copies.

Classification of the manuscripts (PACS numbers and substance classification), the author's name, institution, address, FAX/telephone number and electronic-mail address should be given. The classification scheme is printed in the January issues and in the Index Volume of physica status solidi.

Please, mark the corresponding author!

An abstract of about ten lines (in English) is required.

Equations should be typewritten and numbered sequentially. Separate lines for equations should be used. Special care should be taken to distinguish subscripts, superscripts, and certain symbols. SI-units should be used throughout.

References should be numbered [in square brackets] and listed in the order of appearance on a separate sheet, in the format used in physica status solidi.

Carefully prepared, photoreproducible figures are required. They should be enclosed on separate sheets of paper. The lettering and symbols should be large and clear enough for reduction. Avoid small open symbols, small dots and small decimal points. Photographs should be submitted on white paper. Duplicates for all figures are desirable. Figure captions should be printed on a separate sheet of paper (with special instructions concerning the size of illustrations, if applicable).

Authors who prepare their paper in LATEX (TEX), WORD, WORD PERFECT or WINWORD should submit a floppy disk together with their manuscript. All textual material of the paper (including tables, captions, etc.) should be in a single file. Please ensure that the text is identical in the hardcopy and in the floppy disk.

Please notice that three pages of a manuscript (80 characters/line; 30 lines/page) give two printed pages and three figures give one printed page.

The length of manuscripts for poster or oral contributions must not excced the equivalent of five printed pages. For invited papers, the maximum amounts to ten printed pages.

Please hand over the hard copy of your manuscript to the publication desk at the first day (September 7, 1998) of the EDS'98 meeting.

Refereeing will be organized during the meeting. In case revision is necessary, please resubmit your revised manuscript both as hardcopy and on a disk (if applicable) to:

T. Wosinski, Institute of Physics, PAS
Al. Lotnikow 32/46, PL 02-668 Warsaw, Poland

at the latest by October 5, 1998. Manuscripts that are received later will not be included in the proceedings. If you have technical questions pertaining to the preparation of your manuscript, please contact pss@wiley-vch-berlin.de.