Cover Picture: Phys. Status Solidi B 246/3

This issue of physica status solidi (b) contains a collection of papers presented at the 13th International Conference on High Pressure Semiconductor Physics (HPSP 13), held in Fortaleza, Ceará (Brazil), 22–25 July 2008. The cover picture shows the conference logo together with a schematic view of a pressure cell.

The illustration refers to this issue's Editor's Choice article (A. Bercha et al., pp. 508–511) which was selected by the guest editors M. Chandrasekhar (University of Missouri), F. Cerdeira (Universidade Estadual de Campinas), and V. Lemos (Universidade Federal do Ceará). (© 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)