1. Introduction.- 2. Techniques.- 3. Atomic Structure and Spectra.- 4. Transition Probabilities.- 5. Radiative Processes.- 6. Collisional Processes.- Appendices.- A.1 Numerical Data for Electronic Binding Energies.- A.2 Numerical Data for Electromagnetic Decay.- A.3 Spectroscopic Data for X-Ray Lasers.- References.

This title is a comprehensive collection of atomic characteristics of highly charged ion sources and elementary processes related to X-ray radiation: energy levels, wavelengths, transition probabilities, cross sections and rate coefficients. Many figures, tables, simple formulas and scaling laws accompany the text wherever possible.