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Adsorption of Poly(vinyl formamide-co-vinyl amine) (PVFA-co-PVAm) onto Metal Surfaces
The formation of stable metal/polymer joints is an enormous challenge in material sciences. Good adhesion requires an interphase which is able to...
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Visualization of Charge Domains on Polymer Surfaces
The tribo-electric charging of polymers is widely known and applied in many technical processes. However, the molecular and electronic reasons for...
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Magnetism of Ultrathin Metal Films
The last two chapters have described the growth and structure of epitaxial films. Here, the basic aspects of ultrathin-film magnetism and their...
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Growth of Ultrathin Metal Films
Driven by the requirement to tailor film properties for many technological applications, our understanding of the atomic processes involved in...
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Monolithic Silicon Light Sources
Monolithic silicon light sources (LEDs and lasers) could have a significant impact when integrated on silicon chips. After a general introduction to...
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Characterization of Floating Surface Layers of Lipids and Lipopolymers by Surface-Sensitive Scattering
Nanotechnology and molecular (bio-)engineering are making ever deepening inroads into everybody’s daily life. Physicochemical and biotechnological...
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Silicon Fundamentals for Photonics Applications
The many and diverse approaches to materials science problems have greatly enhanced our ability to engineer the physical properties of...
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Monolithic Silicon Microphotonics
The technology evolution of optical interconnection is driven by the distance × product required for a given link. As such optical fiber deployment...
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Molecular Dynamics of Liquids in Confinement
Surface and confinement effects may have substantial effects on the molecular and collective dynamics of liquids. Within this chapter, we describe...
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Anisotropic Substrates
A prerequisite for infrared ellipsometry investigations of semiconductor layer structures is an accurate knowledge of the substrate materials’...
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The Active Carrier Plasma: Ultrafast Microscopic Dynamics and Spatio-Spectral Gratings
In this chapter we will analyze the dynamic physical processes in the active charge carrier plasma of a semiconductor laser. Calculation and...
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Correlation Between Magnetism, Structure and Growth for Ultrathin Fe Films on Cu(100)
To obtain a comprehensive understanding of the correlation between the magnetism and structure of materials has been a research goal of scientists...
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Epitaxy-Stabilized Structures
Ultrathin films can be grown pseudomorphically on suitable substrates under certain growth conditions, even when the structure grown differs from the...
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Introduction
The ability of mankind to produce and process materials has been an important aspect of human development. This is reflected in the names of certain...
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4 × 4 Transfer Matrix T p for Dielectric Helical Films
Dielectric helical thin films (DHTF’s) are described by a homogeneous rotation of an arbitrarily oriented symmetric dielectric function tensor ɛ...
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Polaritons in Semiconductor Layer Structures
The infrared optical response of layered structures composed of polar semiconductor materials is strongly influenced by resonant excitation of...
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Infrared Model Dielectric Functions
This chapter reviews a selection of dielectric function models progressed for lineshape analysis of (far) infrared ellipsometry data. Contributions...
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NMR Studies of Cartilage – Dynamics, Diffusion, Degradation
An increasing number of people is suffering from rheumatic diseases, and, therefore, methods of early diagnosis of joint degeneration are urgently...
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Survey of Current Theoretical Schemes
With a view to the growing interest in heavy-ion stop**, theoretical schemes have been developed over the past few years aiming at calculating...
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Statistics of Particle Penetration
The importance of statistical considerations in the physics of particle penetration has been emphasized in particular by Bohr (1948). An extensive...