The European Physical Journal Applied Physics

Vol. 13 No. 1 (January 2001)

Editorial
• Editorial EPJ: AP at the turn of the century, the right moment for a new take-off?     p. 1
  Christian Colliex and Jean-Pierre Huignard
  Editorial | PDF file (21.8 KB)



Materials I: Properties of bulk, thin film and nanomaterials
• Reflection and transmission of optical narrow-extent pulses by axially excited chiral sculptured thin films     p. 3
  J.B. Geddes III and A. Lakhtakia
  Abstract | PDF file (428 KB)



• Computation of the transmissivity in heterogeneous layers     p. 15
  C. Benoit
  Abstract | PDF file (432 KB)



Materials II: Synthesis, processing and characterization
• Structure and morphology of nanometer-sized Pd clusters grown at high temperature on natural graphite single crystals     p. 23
  C. Chapon, S. Granjeaud, A. Humbert and C.R. Henry
  Abstract | PDF file (639 KB)



• Fabrication of refractive microlens arrays by visible irradiation of acrylic monomers: influence of photonic parameters     p. 31
  C. Croutxé-Barghorn, O. Soppera and D.J. Lougnot
  Abstract | PDF file (277 KB)



Physics of Energy Transformation
• Numerical modeling of a pulsed asynchronous generator with iron-free cylindrical solid rotor     p. 39
  A. Guettafi, A. Delmas and G. Quichaud
  Abstract | PDF file (357 KB)



• A deflated iterative solver for magnetostatic finite element models with large differences in permeability     p. 45
  H. De Gersem and K. Hameyer
  Abstract | PDF file (226 KB)



Plasma and Discharge Physics
• Identification of the plasma magnetic contour from external magnetic measurements by means of equivalent currents     p. 51
  P. Bettini, F. Bellina, A. Formisano, R. Martone, A. Stella and F. Trevisan
  Abstract | PDF file (368 KB)



• The repulsion of electrical contacts crossed by short-circuit currents     p. 59
  D. Piccoz, P. Teste, R. Andlauer, T. Leblanc and J.P. Chabrerie
  Abstract | PDF file (259 KB)



• Polystyrene thin films treatment under DC pulsed discharges conditions in nitrogen     p. 67
  F. Clément, B. Held, N. Soulem and N. Spyrou
  Abstract | PDF file (353 KB)