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Outlook and Perspectives
Nuclear resonant scattering has significantly benefitted from the development of third-generation synchrotron radiation sources. This trend will...
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Methods and Instrumentation
On the basis of the given brilliances of present-day synchrotron radiation sources one easily estimates that they should be ideally suited for...
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Zincblende-Structure Materials (III–V)
The following chapters will provide different examples including various semiconductor materials of contemporary interest and with diverse...
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Course 14: Hiking through Glassy Phases: Physics beyond Aging
Experiments performed on a wide range of glassy materials display many interesting phenomena, such as aging behavior. In recent years, a large body...
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Polymer-Defined Semiconductor Nanostructures
Semiconductor nanostructures with sizes down to a few nanometers can be defined in different, highly parallel processes with the aid of polymers. In...
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Quantum Cascade Lasers for the Mid-infrared Spectral Range: Devices and Applications
Quantum cascade lasers emitting at λ∼5 µm based on different active region designs are investigated. Using lattice-matched GaInAs/AlInAs on InP...
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From Digital to Analogue Magnetoelectronics: Theory of Transport in Non-collinear Magnetic Nanostructures
Magnetoelectronics is mainly digital, i.e. governed by up and down magnetizations. In contrast, analogue magnetoelectronics makes use of phenomena...
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Models for Food Webs
Food webs are complex systems of many interacting biological species. After summarizing some of their properties, this contribution presents...
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Modeling of Metals and Metal Sponges via Embedded Particle Computer Simulation
In this article we review the embedded atom method when adapted to study solid friction and the mechanical behavior of model metals. The method...
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Order Out of Noise: Maximizing Coherence of Noisy Oscillators
In many nonlinear systems noise can play a constructive role, leading to an appearance of an ordered state. In this paper we describe the effects of...
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Fractional Aharonov-Bohm Oscillations in a Kondo Correlated Few-Electron Quantum Ring
We investigate a small quantum ring fabricated by local oxidation with an atomic force microscope. For strong tunnel coupling to the leads we observe...
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Course 6: Glasses, Replicas and All That
In these lectures I will review the approach to glasses based on the replica formalism. Many of the physical ideas are very similar to those of older...
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AC-Calorimetry at High Pressure and Low Temperature
Recent developments of the ac-calorimetric technique adapted for the needs of high pressure experiments are discussed. A semi-quantitative...
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Hidden Pseudogap and Superconductivity in Electron Doped High-Temperature Superconductors
The ground state of superconductors is characterized by the long range order of condensed Cooper-pairs. While this is the only order in conventional...
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Course 1: Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions
Nonequilibrium phase transitions are discussed with emphasis on general features such as the role of detailed balance violation in generating...
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Course 2: Mechanical Aging and Non-linear Rheology of Concentrated Colloidal Suspensions: Experimental Facts and Simple Models
Many colloidal systems display very non-Newtonian and solid-like behaviour when concentrated, a striking feature being the apparition of a yield...
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Real-Space Renormalization and Energy-Level Statistics at the Quantum Hall Transition
We review recent applications of the real-space renormalization group (RG) approach to the integer quantum Hall (QH) transition. The RG approach,...
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Interaction of Palladium Nano-Crystals with Hydrogen During PECVD Growth of Carbon Nanotubes
Using plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) with Acetylene and Ammoniac on Pd-specimens Carbon nanotubes (CNT) could be produced...
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Evidence for a Metal-Insulator Transition in Overdoped Cuprates: New Raman Results
Transport properties play a major role in the characterization of correlated metals such as the cuprates. The usual dc and optical conductivity...
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Room Temperature Spin Polarization of Epitaxial Half-Metallic Fe3O4(111) and CrO2(100) Films
The electronic structure of thin epitaxial films of magnetite (Fe3O4) and chromium dioxide (CrO2) has been investigated at 293 K by means of spin-...