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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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,... -
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... -
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... -
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-... -
Self-Organized Structures on Flat Crystals: Nanowire Networks Formed by Metal Evaporation
Nanotechnology often requires fabricating large, well-ordered assemblies of nanoscopic components on the surface of a substrate. It has been... -
Scale Invariance and Dynamic Phase Transitions in Diffusion-Limited Reactions
Many systems that can be described in terms of diffusion-limited `chemical' reactions display non-equilibrium continuous transitions separating... -
Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) -- A Versatile Thin Film Technique
Pulsed laser deposition (PLD) is for many reasons a versatile technique. Since with this method the energy source is located outside the chamber, the... -
High Critical Fields and Currents in Mechanically Alloyed MgB$_2$
The combination of high critical fields Hc2 and irreversibility fields H^irr and a critical current density jc for example in thin films render MgB2... -
Decoherence Due to Discrete Noise in Josephson Qubits
We study decoherence produced by a discrete environment on a charge Josephson qubit by introducing a model of an environment of bistable fluctuators.... -
Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers
Unipolar semiconductor injection lasers emitting at THz frequencies (4.3 THz, λ∼69 μm and 3.5 THz, λ∼85 μm) are discussed. The devices are based on... -
Magnetic Liquid Patterns in Space and Time
Macroscopic surface patterns of magnetic fluids are experimentally investigated for four different configurations of the liquid layer, and the... -
The Rise of Organophosphorus Derivatives in π-Conjugated Materials Chemistry
This chapter concerns the synthesis and properties of π-conjugated oligomers and polymers containing phosphorus moieties, an area of increasing... -
PAEs with Heteroaromatic Rings
This article reviews the synthesis and chemical properties of poly(aryleneethynylene)s, PAEs, consisting of sulfur-containing heteroaromatic rings... -
Liquid Chromatography under Critical and Limiting Conditions: A Survey of Experimental Systems for Synthetic Polymers
At the interface between the entropic size exclusion separation and the enthalpydominated liquid adsorption chromatography it is possible,... -
Laser Application of Polymers
Laser ablation of polymers has been studied with designed materials to evaluate the mechanism of ablation and the role of photochemically active...