1. Preface

   • Gernot Pottlacher

   EditorialNotes Pages: 345 - 346

2. Laser heating and surface optical monitoring techniques: A survey

   • A. M. Malvezzi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 347 - 359

3. Dielectric function and electrical resistivity of liquid carbon determined by femtosecond spectroscopy

   • M. C. Downer
   • H. Ahn
   • X. Y. Wang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 361 - 370

4. Behavior of thermal radiation properties of oxide ceramics under subsecond laser heating

   • G. A. Kobzev
   • V. A. Petrov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 371 - 381

5. Pulsed laser melting and resolidification of metal silicide layers

   • P. Baeri
   • M. G. Grimaldi
   • G. Spoto

   OriginalPaper Pages: 383 - 396

6. Thermophysical property measurement at high temperatures by laser-produced plasmas

   • Y. W. Kim

   OriginalPaper Pages: 397 - 408

7. Thermophysical properties of liquid platinum

   • R. S. Hixson
   • M. A. Winkler

   OriginalPaper Pages: 409 - 416

8. Measurements of thermophysical properties of nickel with a new highly sensitive pyrometer

   • W. Obendrauf
   • E. Kaschnitz
   • H. Jäger

   OriginalPaper Pages: 417 - 426

9. Thermophysical properties of solid and liquid beryllium

   • M. Boivineau
   • L. Arlés
   • Th. Thévenin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 427 - 439

10. Thermophysical properties of rhenium

    • Th. Thévenin
    • L. Arlès
    • J. M. Vermeulen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 441 - 448

11. Measurement of the heat of fusion of tungsten by a microsecond-resolution transient technique

    • J. L. McClure
    • A. Cezairliyan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 449 - 455

12. Transition of liquid metals into vapor in the process of pulse heating by current

    • M. M. Martynyuk

    OriginalPaper Pages: 457 - 470

13. Nonuniform electric fields in pulse heated wires

    • G. Lohöfer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 471 - 483

14. A new technique for the measurement of radiance temperature at the melting point

    • F. Righini
    • G. C. Bussolino
    • J. Spišiak

    OriginalPaper Pages: 485 - 494

15. Radiance temperatures (at 658 and 898 nm) of niobium at its melting point

    • F. Righini
    • G. C. Bussolino
    • J. Spišiak

    OriginalPaper Pages: 495 - 510

16. Radiance temperatures (in the wavelength range 519–906 nm) of tungsten at its melting point by a pulse-heating technique

    • A. P. Miiller
    • A. Cezairliyan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 511 - 524

17. Evaluation of thermal conductivity from temperature profiles

    • G. C. Bussolino
    • J. Spišiak
    • R. B. Roberts

    OriginalPaper Pages: 525 - 539

18. Time-resolved X-ray scattering studies of rapid crystallization of amorphous metals

    • S. Brauer
    • H. E. Fischer
    • G. B. Stephenson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 541 - 553

19. Subsecond measurements of the optical properties in the spectral range 0.4–1.1 μm near high-temperature transformations of samarium oxide

    • T. P. Salikhov
    • V. V. Kan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 555 - 564

20. Diamond production as a result of electrical explosions of graphite-containing samples

    • A. V. Bushman
    • V. S. Vorob'ev
    • V. E. Fortov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 565 - 572

21. Measurements of thermophysical properties of liquid metals by noncontact techniques

    • I. Egry
    • G. Lohöfer
    • S. Sauerland

    OriginalPaper Pages: 573 - 584

22. Rapid measurement of the thermal diffusivity of flowing polymer melts

    • H. Miyamoto
    • Y. Horie
    • A. Nagashima

    OriginalPaper Pages: 585 - 592

23. Wave characteristic of femtosecond heat conduction in thin films

    • J. Marciak-Kozlowska

    OriginalPaper Pages: 593 - 598

24. The transient regime of a multiwavelength pyrometer

    • P. Coppa
    • Dai Jinmin
    • G. Ruffino

    OriginalPaper Pages: 599 - 607

25. Premelting transition in uranium dioxide

    • J. P. Hiernaut
    • G. J. Hyland
    • C. Ronchi

    Note Pages: 609 - 612