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Disentangling Noise and Fluctuations in Data Sets of Complex Systems
An overview on a new operational method is given which disentangles deterministic dynamical evolution laws from the impact of fluctuating forces for...
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Molecular-Scale Studies on Biopolymers Using Atomic Force Microscopy
The atomic force microscope (AFM) is capable of acquiring a range of structural and physicochemical information on a wide range of biopolymers. The...
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Polymer Genomics
Biological activities of biocompatible synthetic polymers used in drug delivery, gene delivery, vaccine development or biomaterial surface...
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Biopolyesters in Tissue Engineering Applications
Tissue engineering is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of research focused on the development of vital autologous tissue through the use...
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Interfaces to Control Cell-Biomaterial Adhesive Interactions
Cell adhesion to adsorbed proteins and adhesive sequences engineered on surfaces is crucial to cellular and host responses to implanted devices,...
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Polymeric Systems for Bioinspired Delivery of Angiogenic Molecules
Growth factors are increasingly utilized to promote regeneration of lost or compromised tissues and organs. However, current strategies applying...
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A Brief Overview
The phenomenon of superconductivity is still one of the most exciting topics in solid state physics. In the history of superconductivity it was...
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U-Based Heavy-Fermion Superconductors
The low-temperature normal state of the binary compound UPt3 presents a strongly renormalized Fermi liquid evidenced by the large coeficient of the...
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Manipulations of a Qubit in a Semiconductor Quantum Dot
In a single self-assembled InGaAs quantum dot, the one exciton ground state transition defines a two-level system, which appears as an extremely...
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Donor Levels in ZnO
We have investigated and compared the electrical properties of ZnO grown by four different methods. From temperature dependent resistivity and Hall...
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Flavor Degeneracy and Effects of Disorder in Ultracold Atom Systems
Cold atoms in optical lattices offer an exciting new laboratory where quantum many-body phenomena can be realized in a highly controlled way. They...
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Probing the Energy Gap
The most direct tool for the determination of the excitation gap of superconductors is spectroscopy. Spectroscopy probes the basic excitation of a...
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Probing the Nodal Structure
The topology and k-spatial symmetry of zeroes of the gap function provide useful information on the superconductive order parameter. Besides direct,...
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Absorption- and Phase-Based Imaging Signals for Neutron Tomography
Thermal and cold neutrons are a perfect tool to investigate massive and large (several cm3) samples by means of computerized tomography (CT). The...
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Evolution in Complex Systems: Record Dynamics in Models of Spin Glasses, Superconductors and Evolutionary Ecology
Recent research on the non-stationary nature of the dynamics of complex systems is reviewed through three specific models. The long time dynamics...
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Prospects of Quantum Cascade Lasers with GaInAs Waveguides
High-performance InP-based quantum cascade lasers for pulsed operation in the 5.5 µm wavelength range have been fabricated in the strain-compensated...
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Optics and Transport in Conjugated Polymer Crystals: Interchain Interaction Effects
We investigate the fundamental properties of conjugated-polymer semiconductors from the novel viewpoint of solid-state {ab initio} approaches, that...
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Ultrafast Buildup of a Many-Body Resonance after Femtosecond Excitation of an Electron-Hole Plasma in GaAs
On a femtosecond timescale, we observe how Coulomb screening and collective scattering build up in an extreme nonequilibrium electron-hole plasma...
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The Single Quantum Dot Photodiode -- A Two-Level System with Electric Contacts
Semiconductor quantum dots can be described as quantum mechanical two-level systems. Under the influence of strong electromagnetic driving fields and...
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A Sharp Eye on Thin Films -- Advances through Synchrotron Radiation
The availability of high-brilliance synchrotron radiation has opened new avenues in thin-film research. In recent years new experimental techniques...