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I Imaging and Characterization.- Photothermal Imaging Using Microwave Detection.- Micrometer Photoacoustic Imaging by Photodeformation: Application to Carbon-Carbon Composites.- Photothermal Imaging of Local Thermal Resistances.- Detection of Vertical Cracks in Ceramic Materials by the Mirage Effect.- A Novel “Flying-Spot” Infrared Camera for Imaging Very Fast Thermal-Wave Phenomena.- Characterization of Semiconductor Thin Films Using High-Frequency Photothermal-Optical-Beam-Deflection Imaging.- Real-Time Thermal-Wave Imaging of Plasma-Sprayed Coatings and Adhesive Bonds Using a Box-Car Video Technique.- Non-destructive Evaluation of the Distribution of Stress by Means of the Photoacoustic Microscope.- Characterization of Metal Defects in Insulating Materials.- Thermal Wave Characterization of Ceramics.- II Nondestructive Evaluation and Layered Systems.- Time-Domain Opto-thermal Spectro-radiometry.- Time-Resolved Infrared Radiometry for Characterization of Structured Materials.- The Effect of Transverse Heatflow and the Use of Characteristic Times in Studying Multilayered-Coatings in the Time Domain.- Photoacoustic Quantitative Depth Profiling of an Ion-Pair Adsorbed Polyvinylchloride Film Using an Approximation of the Inverse Laplace Transform.- Depth Profiling of Opaque Multilayer Materials by Correlation Photoacoustics.- Modelling of Sample Translucency, Substrate Absorption and Interface Defects for Thermal Wave Infrared Inspection of Thermal Barrier Coatings.- Transient Thermal Wave Techniques for the Characterisation of Surface Coatings.- Numerical Analysis of the Transient Thermal Response of Subsurface Defects.- Measurement of the Thermal Diffusivity and Effusivity of Porous Bulk Materials.- Photoacoustic Measurements of Thermophysical Properties Between Room Temperature and 1000K — Experimental Technique and First Results for Graphites.- NDE Applications of High-Resolution Photoinductive Imaging.- Nondestructive Evaluation of a Semi-infinite Buried Slab by Photothermal Deflection.- Impulse Response Measurements Using Both Photoacoustic and Photothermal Deflection Methods.- III Thin Films.- Mapping of Charge Profiles of Thin Electret Films by Sub-nanosecond Thermal Pulses.- Reduction of the Photoacoustic Signal by the Evaporation Resistance of Thin Films on Liquids and Solids.- Photopyroelectric Spectroscopy (PPES) of a-Si: H Thin Films on Quartz.- Photothermal Deflection Method for Monitoring Photoelectronic and Nonradiative Energy Conversion in Semiconductor Photoelectrochemical (PEC) Cells.- Photothermal Spectroscopy of Rhodamine 6G Dye in Organic and Inorganic Amorphous Films.- Photoacoustic-Attenuated Total Reflection Study of Surface Roughness in Thin Metal Films.- Thermal Wave Measurement of Diamond Films.- Thermal Diffusivity of Thin Diamond Films.- Thermal Diffusivity of CVD Diamond Films Using Thermal Wave Techniques.- Measurements of the Absorption Distribution of Optical Thin Films by Scanning Photothermal Microscopy.- IV Semiconductors.- High Resolution Thermal Wave Measurements and Imaging of Defects and Damage in Electronic Materials.- Subsurface Defect Inspection in IC Devices with Thermal Wave Imaging.- Temperature Effect on Photothermal Reflectance Signal: Application to Ion Implanted and Amorphous Silicon.- Study of the Induced Damage and of the Annealing Kinetics of Defects in Ion Implanted Silicon Using the Photothermal Reflectance Technique.- Subgap Amorphous Silicon Photothermal Deflection Spectroscopy: Spatial Absorption Localization Studies.- Subgap Absorption Spectra of Ion Implanted Si and GaAs Layers.- Beam Deflection Investigation of the Dynamics of Carriers Photoexcited from Deep Centers in CdS: Cu+.- Axisymmetrical Modeling of a Photothermal Collinear Beam Deflection in a Semiconductor with the Use of a Fast Hankel Transform.- Frequency Dependence of Amplitude and Phase of Photothermal-Optical-Beam-Deflection Signal.- Determination of Optical and Thermal Properties of the GaAsSb/GaAs Heterostructure by Photothermal Deflection Spectroscopy.- Anomalous Properties of Amorphous Semiconductor Superlattices Characterized by Photoacoustic and Photothermal Spectra.- Piezoelectric Photoacoustic Effect of Semiconductors in DC Electric Fields.- Photoacoustic Study of the Glass Transition and Crystallization in Bulk GexTe1-x and Te1-x Glasses.- V High-Temperature Superconductors.- Spectroscopy of High Tc Oxides and Plasma Frequency Determination.- Imaging of Defects in Metallo-organic Thin Films by Photothermal Deflection.- Laser Beam Deflection as a Probe of Laser Ablation of Materials.- Specific Heat Jump in High Tc Superconductors Measured by a Compensation Technique.- Photothermal Measurements of High-Tc Superconductors.- Investigation of Surface Diffusivity of High Tc Superconductivity Films by the “Mirage Effect”.- Simultaneous Monitoring of Specific Heat, Thermal Conductivity, and Thermal Diffusivity Anomalies in YBa2Cu3O7-x Superconductors Using the Photopyroelectric Effect.- Photopyroelectric Impulse Response Investigation of Single Crystal YBa2Cu3O7-x.- High Resolution Photoacoustic Spectroscopy of HO2O3 and Nd2O3 Powders with a Piezoelectric Detector.- Separation of Surface Optical Absorption of BaYCuO Thin Film from Absorption of Substrate by Using the Phase of the Photoacoustic Signal.- VI Nonoptical Excitation Sources.- X-Ray Photoacoustics for Characterization and Non-destructive Evaluation.- Photoacoustic X-Ray Absorption Near Edge Structure in CuInSe2.- Energy Transfer from Low Energy Noble Gas Ions to Gold Surfaces Using a Pyroelectric Calorimeter.- Energy Deposition at Solid Surfaces Studied by cw-Photothermal Displacement Spectroscopy.- Evaluation of the Temperature Dependence of Electron Acoustic Signals in Silicon by Use of a Capacitive Transducer.- Optical Beam Deflection in Semiconductors with Electron Beam Excitation.- Study of Magnetostatic Modes in Yttrium Iron Garnet by Photothermal Laser Beam Deflection.- Detection of Nonthermal Microwave-Induced Photoacoustic Signals in Water.- VII Thermoelasticity.- Laser-Generated Ultrasound: Toward Realistic Modeling.- Transmission and Reflection Thermoacoustic Imaging of Metallic Samples.- Thermoelastic Properties of a Two-Material Junction.- Photoacoustic Evaluation of Aerogel-Glass Interfaces.- A Beam Deflection Technique for Photo-acoustic Lamb Wave Measurements.- Laser Induced Sheet Waves for Investigating Anisotropy in Polymer Film.- VIII Thermal Properties and Phase Transitions.- Photoacoustic Monitoring of Polymerization Processes.- Simultaneous Monitoring of Heat Capacity Thermal Conductivity and Diffusivity over the Smectic A-Nematic Transition in Alkylcyanobiphenyl Liquid Crystals.- Photoacoustic Measurement of the Glass Transition of Polymeric Materials.- Photoacoustic Investigation of the Anisotropic Thermal Behavior of Liquid Crystals.- Photopyroelectric Detection of Phase Transitions in Thermally Thick Solids.- Phase Transition of GMO and TGS Crystals Studied by a Photothermal Beam-Deflection Technique.- Anisotropic Thermal Diffusivity Measurements in a Discotic Liquid Crystal Using Photothermal Probe Beam Deflection.- The Photoacoustic Signal of Fractal Structures.- Effect of Sorption and Mass Diffusion in Porous Materials on the Photoacoustic Signal.- Photothermal Measurments of Optical Absorption Losses in Laser Components.- High-Sensitivity Photothermal Absorption Measurements on Curved Optical Thin Film Optics.- Opto-Thermal Investigation of Dichroic Materials.- Photoacoustic and EPR Investigation of Iron Oxide Doping of Soda-Lime Glasses.- Pulsed Laser Photothermal Radiometry and Photothermal Beam Deflection Spectroscopy: Determination of Thermal Diffusivities of Liquids.- Photothermal Deflection Method for Thermal Diffusivity Measurements: A Thermo-optical Classification of Solids.- IX Weakly Absorbing Systems.- Photoacoustic Resonance Spectroscopy: A Tool for High Precision Experiments.- Frequency Domain Analysis of Acoustic Resonances Excited with Single Laser Pulses.- Photopyroelectric Solid State Sensor for Hydrogen Gas Trace Detection.- Photoacoustic and Mirage Effect on Liquids.- Optoacoustic Raman Gain Spectroscopy with Pulsed Lasers.- Spectrally Resolved Laser Photoacoustic Monitoring of NH3 in Power Plant Emission.- Two-Photon Absorption of Formaldehyde Using Pulsed Gas Phase Photoacoustic Spectroscopy.- The Effect of Background Absorption on the Photoacoustic Measurement of Ammonia in the Atmosphere.- Stack Gas Monitoring by Pulsed Laser Optoacoustic Spectroscopy.- Photoacoustic Measurement of Plant Gas Exchange.- Laser Photoacoustic Measurements in Plane Gas Jets.- A Photothermal Study of the Photolysis of Bromine at 532 nm.- X Photochemistry.- Picosecond Transient Thermal Phase Grating Spectroscopy: From Proteins to Surfaces.- Photothermal Energy Balance Analysis of Photovoltaic Cells.- Calorimetric Characterization of Semiconductor Lasers.- Measurement of the Quantum Yield of Triplet Formation of Transient Species by Using the Time-Resolved Thermal Lens Method.- Characteristic Times of Non-radiative Processes as Studied by Correlation Photoacoustics.- Optical Saturation in the Photothermal Spectroscopy of Fluorescent Materials.- Production of Anisotropic Photoacoustic Pressure Waves by Photodissociation of Molecular Chlorine.- Laser Induced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy of Actinides in Alkaline Solutions in an Electochemically Controlled Anaerobic Environment.- Photoacoustic Study of Adatoms in Surface Enhanced Second Harmonic Generation.- XI Biology and Medicine.- Laser-Tissue Interactions in the Nanosecond, Picosecond and Femtosecond Time Domains.- Investigation of Human Tissues with Scanning Electron Acoustic Microscopy.- The Application of Photoacoustic Detection in the Primary Diagnosis of Cancer.- Photoacoustic Signals from Leaves and Time Domain Measurements of Photosynthetic Gas Exchange (Oxygen Evolution and Uptake).- Photoacoustic Signals of Leaves as Influenced by the Structure of the Leaf Tissue.- Identification of Chlorophylls and Carotenoids by Photoacoustic Spectroscopy.- Photothermal Colorimetry of Phosphorus and Ammonium in Aqueous Phase for Use in the Agricultural Practice.- Enhanced Photobleaching of Hematoporphyrin IX in Intralipid: A Photoacoustic Study.- Impact of Air Pollutants and Acid Rain on Corn and Sugar Maple Seedlings Assessed by Photoacoustic Spectroscopy.- Scanning Microscopy of Adsorbed Water in Annual Rings of Wood.- Intracavity Photoacoustic Trace Detection of C2H4 at ppt Levels.- Sensitive Laser Photoacoustic Stark Detection of Ammonia in the Air and in Open Top Fumigation Chambers.- Optocalorimetric Methods for Registration of Phase Transitions in a Laser Irradiated Biomedical Medium.- XII Techniques and Instrumentation.- Photothermal Investigations: Why, When and How?.- A Single Beam Interferometry of a Thermal Bump.- Amplitude and Phase Modulation (AM-PM) Wideband Photothermal Spectrometry.- Photoacoustic Waveforms from Laser Heated Particulate Matter.- Real-Time Asynchronous/Synchronous Lock-In Thermal-Wave Imaging with an IR Video Camera.- The Photothermal Deflection Dynamics of a Laser Beam: Application to Energy Relaxation Measurements.- Fast Photothermal Measurement System for Nondestructive Evaluation.- On Gas Viscosity and Residual Volume Effects in a Photoacoustic Cell.- Fourier Transform Infrared Photopyroelectric Spectroscopy of Solids: A New Technique.- Photopyroelectric Computerized Scanner for Contactless, Spatially Resolved Detection of Thermal Waves.- Photothermal Wave Diffraction and Interference in Condensed Media.- Standing Wave Excitation as a Means of Suppressing Volume Signals in Photothermal Detection.- Optothermal Laser Spectrometer.- Photothermal Spectroscopy and Calorimetry by Ultrasonics.- The Resonant Photoacoustic Heat Pipe Cell for Spectral Investigation of Low Volatility Liquids and Solids.- Fibre Optic Laser Generation of Thermal Waves and Their Infrared Detection.- Measurement of the Photothermal Signal Phase Using Step-Scan Interferometry.- A Rapid-Scan and High-Fidelity Dual-Mode Photoacoustic Microscope and Its Application to Paper Chromatography.- Operational Diagram for Photopyroelectric Experiments with Periodic Excitation.- Measurement of the Absolute Temperature Rise of Surfaces During Pulsed Laser Heating.- Index of Contributors.