Advances in Solid State Physics

This volume contains the invited papers of the Spring meeting of the Arbeitskreis Festkorperphysik of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, which has been held in Munster in 1997. The meeting has been attended by roughly 4000 participants from all areas of solid state physics. This book covers the current status of the fileds and shows the excitement which has been felt by the speakers when presenting their results.