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Non-equilibrium Transport and Relaxation in Diffusive Nanowires with Kondo Impurities
Combining non-equilibrium transport with spectroscopic measurements provides a unique tool for the investigation of the microscopic processes in...
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III-V and II-VI Mn-Based Ferromagnetic Semiconductors
A review is given of advances in the field of carrier-controlled ferromagnetism in Mn-based diluted magnetic semiconductors and their nanostructures....
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The Chemical Route in Plasma Enhanced Low Pressure Synthesis of c-BN
In the last three years it was shown that plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) is an interesting alternative to the physical route. This...
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Decoherence of Flux Qubits Coupled to Electronic Circuits
On the way to solid-state quantum computing, overcoming decoherence is the central issue. In this contribution, we discuss the modeling of...
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Atomic Structure of Alkali Halide Surfaces
The atomic structure of surfaces of alkali halide crystals has been revealed by means of high-resolution dynamic force microscopy. True atomic...
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Optical Spectroscopy of Low-Dimensional Quantum Spin Systems
Low-dimensional quantum spin systems display fascinating excitation spectra. In recent years, optical spectroscopy was shown to be a powerful tool...
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Ultrafast Coherent Dynamics in Semiconductor Quantum Dots
In this chapter we will review the studies on ultrafast coherence phenomena of self-assembled semiconductor quantum dots (SAQDs). These...
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Nanoscale Phenomena in Ferroelectric Thin Films
In this chapter, recent progress in our group in the area of thin-film ferroelectrics is reviewed. The specific focus is on nanoscale...
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Ferroelectric Technologies \newline for Portable Equipment
Key technologies for portable equipment are low-voltage operation, low power consumption, and protocol-flexibility. Ferroelectric technology...
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TM Waves at the Interface Between Two Half-Infinite Media
From electrodynamic continuum considerations one can derive bound solutions for harmonic plane waves at the interface between two infinite dielectric...
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Wurtzite-Structure Materials (Group-III Nitrides, ZnO)
The success in growing high-quality wide-band-gap group-III-nitride alloys over the past several years has led to immense effort in nitride-based...
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4 × 4 Transfer Matrix T p for Dielectric Homogeneous Films
The matrix Δ in (A.5) does not depend on z if the medium is homogeneous, i.e., ɛ is not a function of z. The solution of (A.2) for a layer with...
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4 × 4 Transfer Matrix T p for Magneto-optic Films
Consider homogeneous mediums with non-symmetric dielectric properties, i.e., materials where ɛij≠ ɛij. Examples are magnetized materials with...
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Magneto-Optic Ellipsometry
The free-charge-carrier properties effective mass m, mobility μ, and carrier concentration N are of fundamental importance for understanding basic...
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Electron Coherence in Mesoscopic Kondo Wires
We present measurements of the magnetoresistance of long and narrow quasi one-dimensional gold wires containing magnetic iron impurities. The...
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Turbulence
Recent progress in the physics of developed turbulence is presented. After summarizing the relevant notions as the Reynolds number Re and the...
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LDA+DMFT Investigations of Transition Metal Oxides and f-Electron Materials
In the last few years LDA+DMFT, the merger of conventional band structure theory in the local density approximation (LDA) with the many-body...
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New Developments with Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
Besides sensors, magnetic random access memory (MRAM) and hard disk read heads, much more possible applications are still ahead for the new...
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Stress, Strain and Magnetic Anisotropy: All Is Different in Nanometer Thin Films
The application of the crystal curvature technique for stress measurements at surfaces and in films is presented. Important aspects regarding sample...
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Spin-Galvanic Effect and Spin Orientation Induced Circular Photogalvanic Effect in Quantum Well Structures
The spin-galvanic effect and the spin polarization induced circular photogalvanic effect generated by homogeneous optical excitation with circularly...