Microclusters : proceedings of the First NEC Symposium, Hakone and Kawasaki, Japan, October 20-23, 1986

I Shell Model.- Shell Structure in Clusters.- SIMS Experiments on Metal Cluster Ions.- Stability of Alkali Metal Clusters.- II Electronic Structure.- Electron Correlations and Chemical Bonding in Aggregates - a Simplified Approach.- Phenomenological and Microscopic Theories of Structure.- Electronic Structure of Microclusters.- Electronic Structure of Small Clusters.- Electronic Structure, Cohesion, and Effective Interatomic Potentials in Small Transition Metal Particles.- Force Calculation in Density Functional and Muffin-Tin Orbital Framework.- The Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Clusters.- Theoretical Study of the Electronic Structure of CO Adsorbed on Small Cu Clusters.- III New Experiments.- Optical and Dynamical Properties of Metal Clusters.- Molecular Surfaces: Chemistry and Physics of Gas Phase Clusters.- Multiphoton Ionization of Sodium Halide Clusters.- Dynamical Aspects of Molecular Clusters Studied by Multiphoton Ionization Technique.- Production of Metal Clusters by Nozzle Beam Expansion and Analysis by TOF Mass Spectrometry.- Size Dependence of Photoluminescence in CdSe Clusters.- IV Dynamical Processes.- Equilibrium Structures and Dynamical Processes in Microclusters.- Many Body Effects on Static and Dynamical Properties of Si, C, and K Microclusters.- Total Energy Surfaces: (S8)n.- Theoretical Study on Photodissociation Processes of Lithium Metal Microclusters.- Ionization of Clusters in Collision with High-Rydberg Excited Rare Gas Atoms.- Theory of Electron Attachment of Van der Waals Microclusters.- Time Evolution of Electronic States in Microclusters.- V Structural Fluctuations.- Some Experiments on Structural Instability of Small Particles of Metals.- Melting and Freezing of Microclusters from Analytics and Simulations.- Dynamics of Transition-Metal Clusters.- VI Larger Microclusters.- Energy-Level Statistics of Metal Particles.- Cluster Reaction from the Viewpoint of Nuclear Reaction.- Stability of a Charged Small Particle Against Surface Shape Fluctuations.- VII Semiconductor Clusters.- Production and Photofragmentation of Semiconductor Clusters and Cluster Ions.- Dynamical Characteristics of Laser Vaporization Process in Group IV Elements.- Localized Orbital Approach to Carbon Clusters.- Electronic and Structural Theory of Group-IV Microclusters.- Effects of Electrostatic Field on the Electronic Structure of Microclusters.- Quantum Box: Gallium Arsenide Microclusters Embedded in Aluminum Arsenide.- Electronic Structure of the Superatom.- Index of Contributors.- Picture of Participants.