Physics-Uspekhi, Volume 63 (2020), Issue 1 

 

25 years of the electronic version of the journal “Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk” (“Physics-Uspekhi”)		1
REVIEWS OF TOPICAL PROBLEMS
X-ray diffraction methods for structural diagnostics of materials: progress and achievements  G V Fetisov		2
Localized modes in chiral photonic structures  S Ya Vetrov, I V Timofeev, V F Shabanov		33
METHODOLOGICAL NOTES
Classical problems in the theory of elasticity and the quantum theory of angular momentum  S V Goupalov		57
CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA
X-ray optics: how and what is to be seen (Scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 22 May 2019)		66
Diffraction limited X-ray optics: technology, metrology, applications  N I Chkhalo, I V Malyshev, A E Pestov, V N Polkovnikov, N N Salashchenko, M N Toropov		67
Beryllium-based multilayer X-ray optics  V N Polkovnikov, N N Salashchenko, M V Svechnikov, N I Chkhalo		83
LETTERS TO THE EDITORS
Once again on the Gatchina discharge and ball lightning (comments on G D Shabanov's paper “On the possibility of making natural ball lightning using a new pulse discharge type in the laboratory” [Phys. Usp. 62 92 (2019); Usp. Fiz. Nauk 189 95 (2019)])  M L Shmatov		96
On the relation between theoretical and experimental components in the papers on ball lightning (reply to M L Shmatov's comments [Phys. Usp. 63 96 (2020); Usp. Fiz. Nauk 190 107 (2020)] on the paper “On the possibility of making natural ball lightning using a new pulse discharge type in the laboratory” [Phys. Usp. 62 92 (2019); Usp. Fiz. Nauk 189 95 (2019)])  G D Shabanov		99
Physics news on the Internet (based on electronic preprints)  Yu N Eroshenko

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