Foreword ------- p.1Motoi Suwa
Feature Articles1) Research and development of surface tension measurement of glass melts in high temperature range ------- p.3
Kenji Morinaga
Shigeru Fujino
2) Survey of heat capacity measurement of glass melts at high temperature regions ------- p.7
Takayuki Komatsu
Yasuhiko Benino
3) Identification of the effective thermal conductivity of molten glass ------- p.11
Masafumi Taguchi
Koji Fujita
Hirohiko Iwase
Yuichi Urabe
Toshiaki Hashimoto
Shinji Kawamoto
4) The characteristic of bubble growth in the glass melt under sub-atmospheric pressure ------- p.15
Rei Kitamura
5) Structural study on glass melts by raman spectroscopy ------- p.20
Tetsuji Yano
New Glass Research TopicsOrganic-inorganic hybrid porous material ------- p.27
Kazuki Nakanishi
Nanotechnology Glass Research TopicsFabrication of micro-lense and grating devices inside glasses by a femtosecond laser ------- p.32
Takayuki Nakaya
Jianrong Qiu
Kazuyuki Hirao
Lectures for NewcomersDetermination of refractive index of bulk glass ------- p.39
Naoyuki Kitamura
VisitĦĦtoĦĦGlass Research InstituteIntroduction of Laboratories in Nanotechnology Glass Project ------- p.43
Osamu Yanagisawa
Introduction of New Glass ProductsSynthetic Silica Glass for vacuum ultra violet optics ------- p.46
Y. Ikuta
T. Minematsu
K. Hino
H. Kojima
S. Kikugawa
Y. Sasuga
Topics of Meetings on Glass1) Report on Sol-Gel 2001 ------- p.50
Hiroyo Segawa
2) PAC RIM 4: An International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Glasses ------- p.53
Jun Matsuoka
3) Report on the 42nd Symposium on Glass and Photonics Materials ------- p.57
Yusuke Himei
4) Report on Seminar on New Glass ------- p.59
Toshiyuki Suzuki
5) Report on the 1st Flow and Fracture in Advanced Glasses ------- p.63
Satoshi Yoshida
Introduction of New BookActive Glass for Photonics Devices - Photoinduced Structures and Their Application ------- p.67
Yutaka Kuroiwa
ColumnHow to promote cooperation between industry and the academic world? ------- p.71
Masahide Takahashi