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We report on a combined low-temperature scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS), angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), and density functional theory (DFT) investigation of the ( √3x√3) Pb/Ag (111)R30° surface alloy which provides a giant Rashba-type spin splitting. With STS we observed spectroscopic features that are assigned to two hole-like Rashba-split bands in the unoccupied energy range. By means of STS and quantum interference mapping we determine the band onsets, splitting strengths, and dispersions for both bands. The unambiguous assignment of scattering vectors is achieved by comparison to ARPES measurements. While intra-band scattering is found for both Rashba bands, inter-band scattering is only observed in the occupied energy range. Spin- and orbitally-resolved band structures were obtained by DFT calculations. Considering the scattering between states of different spin- and orbital character, the apparent deviation between experimentally observed scattering events and the theoretically predicted spin polarization could be resolved.
This thesis consists of two parts of original experimental work, its evaluation, and in- terpretation. Its final goal is to investigate dynamical charge transfer (CT) at a hetero- molecular interface with resonant photoelectron spectroscopy (RPES). In order to achieve this goal preliminary studies have been necessary. First two hetero-molecular inter- faces that exhibit adequate structural properties as well as an appropriate photoelec- tron spectroscopy (PES) spectrum of the valence regime have been identified. The de- sired CT analysis with RPES of these hetero-molecular systems is then conducted on the basis of the knowledge gained by previous RPES studies of homo-molecular sys- tems.
The characterization of hetero-molecular films on single crystal Ag surfaces in the first part of this thesis is performed with high resolution core level PES and valence PES. The reproduction of the core level PES data with reference spectra of homo-molecular films allows me to determine which molecule is in direct contact to the Ag surface and which one is situated in higher layers (not the first one). Due to the direct correspon- dence of core level and valence PES the assignment of features in the spectra of the latter technique can be achieved with the identification of the contributions extracted from the evaluation of the data of the former technique. It is found that the systems PTCDA on one monolayer (ML) of SnPc on Ag(111) and CuPc/1 ML PTCDA/Ag(111) are stable at 300 K which means that no significant layer exchange occurs for these systems. In contrast a vertical exchange of CuPc and PTCDA molecules is observed for PTCDA de- posited on top of 1 ML CuPc/Ag(111). Up to a coverage of approximately 0.5 ML of PTCDA molecules these diffuse into the first layer, replace CuPc molecules, and con- sequently force them into higher layers. Above a coverage of approximately 0.5 ML of PTCDA molecules these are also found in higher layers. The search for a promising system for the intended RPES study then leads to an investigation of hetero-molecular films with a combination of F4TCNQ and PTCDA molecules on Ag(110) within the same approach. Depositing F4TCNQ molecules onto a 1 ML PTCDA/Ag(110) film in the herringbone phase at 300 K results in an instable hetero-organic system which un- dergoes a layer exchange. Hereby PTCDA molecules in the first layer are replaced by F4TCNQ molecules similar to the behavior of the system PTCDA/1 ML CuPc/Ag(111). Switching the order of the preparation steps leads to a stable film of PTCDA/1.0 ML F4TCNQ/Ag(110) at 300 K. Among the stable hetero-molecular films only the system CuPc/1 ML PTCDA/Ag(111) exhibits the required wetting growth of the first two layers at 300 K and a valence PES spectrum with energetically separable molecular orbital signals in the same intensity range. Thus this system is identified to be appropriate for a detailed analysis with RPES.
The unexpected findings of vertical exchanges in the hetero-molecular films at 300 K motivate a study of the behavior at elevated temperatures for all systems investigated before. Therein it is revealed that annealing 1.5 ML SnPc/1 ML PTCDA/Ag(111) and
1.0 ML PTCDA/1 ML SnPc/Ag(111) to a temperature above the desorption temperature of molecules not in direct contact to the Ag(111) surface results in a 1 ML SnPc/Ag(111) film in both cases. Hence at elevated temperatures (approximately above 420 K) SnPc molecules replace PTCDA molecules in the first layer on Ag(111). At higher temper- atures (approximately above 470 K) PTCDA molecules and SnPc molecules situated above the first layer then desorb from the 1 ML SnPc/Ag(111) sample. Annealing all hetero-molecular films with CuPc and PTCDA molecules on Ag(111) to 570 K leads to a sample with CuPc and PTCDA molecules in the first and only layer. Depending on the initial CuPc coverage different ratios of both molecules are obtained. With a CuPc coverage of exactly 1 ML, or above, films with PTCDA coverages of approxi- mately 0.1–0.2 ML are produced. So at elevated temperatures CuPc molecules replace PTCDA molecules in the first layer of the system CuPc/1 ML PTCDA/Ag(111). Anal- ogously the layer exchange at 300 K for the system PTCDA/1 ML CuPc/Ag(111) is reversed at elevated temperatures. In the case of SnPc and CuPc coverages below 1 ML annealing vertical hetero-molecular systems with PTCDA on Ag(111) up to 570 K re- sults in a single layer of mixed hetero-molecular films with lateral long range order. In this way the system CuPc + PTCDA/Ag(111) is prepared and then characterized as a proper system for a detailed analysis with RPES. Additional annealing experiments of hetero-organic films consisting of F4TCNQ and PTCDA molecules on Ag(110) with an F4TCNQ coverage of 1.0 ML (and above) end in a submonolayer (sub-ML) film of F4TCNQ/Ag(110) that exhibits a contribution of amorphous carbon. Consequently, it can be concluded that at elevated temperatures part of the F4TCNQ molecules decom- pose.
In the second part of this thesis homo-molecular multilayer samples and (sub-)ML films on single crystalline metal surfaces are investigated with RPES in order to enable the final RPES study of vertical and lateral hetero-molecular interface systems. First a pho- ton energy (hν) dependent intensity variation of (groups of) molecular orbital signals of exemplary multilayer films (NTCDA and coronene) is studied and explained on the basis of the local character of the electronic transitions in near edge x-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy in combination with the real space probability den- sity of the contributing molecular orbitals. This simple approach is found to be able to correctly describe relative intensity variations by orders of magnitude while it fails for hν dependent relative intensity changes in the same order of magnitude. After that the hν dependent line-shape evolution of an energetically separated molecular orbital signal of a CuPc multilayer is discussed in relation to small molecules in the gas phase and explained with an effect of electron vibration coupling. Through a comparison of the hν dependent line-shape evolution of the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) of a CuPc with a SnPc multilayer the molecule specific character of this effect is identified. Then the same effect with either two (or more) electronic transitions or multiple coupling vibrational modes is observed for a coronene multilayer. Thereafter the influence of the adsorption on metal surfaces on this effect is studied and discussed with special emphasis on a possible contribution by features which are related to dynamical interface CT. For a sub-ML of SnPc/Au(111) no variation with respect to a SnPc multilayer film is detected while for a sub-ML of CuPc/Au(111) less intensity is distributed into the high binding energy (EB) part of the HOMO signal with respect to the corresponding multilayer film. In the RPES data of a sub-ML of coronene/Ag(111) a resonance specific variation of the hν dependent line-shape evolution of the HOMO signal is found by the revelation of a change of this effect with respect to the coronene multilayer data in only one of the two NEXAFS resonances. All these findings are consistently explained within one effect and a common set of parameters, namely all quantities that characterize the potential energy surfaces involved in the RPES process. Through that an alternative explanation that re- lies on dynamical CT can be excluded which influences the following CT analysis with RPES.
Three criteria for such an analysis of dynamical interface CT with RPES are identified. In the system coronene on Ag(111) a low EB feature is related to metal-molecule inter- face CT through the assignment of a particular final state and hence named CT state. In the EB region of the frontier molecular orbital signals of the molecule-metal inter- face systems with a signal from the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) in direct valence PES a broad line-shape is measured in RPES. This finding is related to interface CT by a possible explanation that emerges through the comparison to the line- shape of the CT state. The constant kinetic energy (EK ) features detected for several molecule-metal interfaces constitute the third criterion for a CT analysis with RPES. For the molecule-metal interface systems without a LUMO signal in direct valence PES the energy of these features can be calculated with the assignment of the responsible decay channel in combination with explicitly given simplifying assumptions. Through that the involvement of metal-molecule interface CT in the generation of these constant EK fea- tures is demonstrated. The RPES data of the lateral and the vertical hetero-molecular interface, identified in the first part, is then scanned for these three CT criteria. Thereby neither for the lateral hetero-molecular system CuPc + PTCDA/Ag(111) nor for the verti- cal hetero-molecular system CuPc/1 ML PTCDA/Ag(111) dynamical hetero-molecular interface CT can be confirmed. In the former system the molecule-metal interface in- teraction is found to dominate the physics of the system in RPES while in the latter system no hints for a significant hybridization at the CuPc-PTCDA interface can be revealed
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive medical imaging technique, that is rou- tinely used in clinical practice for detection and diagnosis of a wide range of different diseases. In MRI, no ionizing radiation is used, making even repeated application unproblematic. This is an important advantage over other common imaging methods such as X-rays and Computer To- mography. One major drawback of MRI, however, are long acquisition times and associated high costs of experiments. Since the introduction of MRI, several important technical developments have been made to successfully reduce acquisition times. In this work, novel approaches were developed to increase the efficiency of MRI acquisitions.
In Chapter 4, an improved radial turbo spin-echo (TSE) combined acquisition and reconstruction strategy was introduced. Cartesian turbo spin-echo sequences [3] are widely used especially for the detection and diagnosis of neurological pathologies, as they provide high SNR images with both clinically important proton density and T2 contrasts. TSE acquisitions combined with radial sampling are very efficient, since it is possible to obtain a number of ETL images with different contrasts from a single radial TSE measurement [56–58]. Conventionally, images with a particular contrast are obtained from both radial and Cartesian TSE acquisitions by combining data from different echo times into a single image. In the radial case, this can be achieved by employing k-space weighted image contrast (KWIC) reconstruction. In KWIC, the center region of k-space is filled exclusively with data belonging to the desired contrast while outer regions also are assembled with data acquired at other echo times. However, this data sharing leads to mixed contrast contributions to both Cartesian and radial TSE images. This is true especially for proton density weighted images and therefore may reduce their diagnostic value.
In the proposed method, an adapted golden angle reordering scheme is introduced for radial TSE acquisitions, that allows a free choice of the echo train length and provides high flexibility in image reconstruction. Unwanted contrast contaminations are greatly reduced by employing a narrow-band KWIC filter, that restricts data sharing to a small temporal window around the de- sired echo time. This corresponds to using fewer data than required for fully sampled images and consequently leads to images exhibiting aliasing artifacts. In a second step, aliasing-free images are obtained using parallel imaging. In the neurological examples presented, the CG-SENSE algorithm [42] was chosen due to its stable convergence properties and its ability to reconstruct arbitrarily sampled data. In simulations as well as in different in vivo neurological applications, no unwanted contrast contributions could be observed in radial TSE images reconstructed with the proposed method. Since this novel approach is easy to implement on today’s scanners and requires low computational power, it might be valuable for the clinical breakthrough of radial TSE acquisitions.
In Chapter 5, an auto-calibrating method was introduced to correct for stimulated echo contribu- tions to T2 estimates from a mono-exponential fit of multi spin-echo (MSE) data. Quantification of T2 is a useful tool in clinical routine for the detection and diagnosis of diseases as well as for tis- sue characterization. Due to technical imperfections, refocusing flip angles in a MSE acquisition deviate from the ideal value of 180○. This gives rise to significant stimulated echo contributions to the overall signal evolution. Therefore, T2 estimates obtained from MSE acquisitions typically are notably higher than the reference. To obtain accurate T2 estimates from MSE acquisitions, MSE signal amplitudes can be predicted using the extended phase graph (EPG, [23, 24]) algo- rithm. Subsequently, a correction factor can be obtained from the simulated EPG T2 value and applied to the MSE T2 estimates. However, EPG calculations require knowledge about refocus- ing pulse amplitudes, T2 and T1 values and the temporal spacing of subsequent echoes. While the echo spacing is known and, as shown in simulations, an approximate T1 value can be assumed for high ratios of T1/T2 without compromising accuracy of the results, the remaining two parameters are estimated from the data themselves. An estimate for the refocusing flip angle can be obtained from the signal intensity ratio of the second to the first echo using EPG. A conventional mono- exponential fit of the MSE data yields a first estimate for T2. The T2 correction is then obtained iteratively by updating the T2 value used for EPG calculations in each step. For all examples pre- sented, two iterations proved to be sufficient for convergence. In the proposed method, a mean flip angle is extracted across the slice. As shown in simulations, this assumption leads to greatly reduced deviations even for more inhomogeneous slice profiles. The accuracy of corrected T2 values was shown in experiments using a phantom consisting of bottles filled with liquids with a wide range of different T2 values. While T2 MSE estimates were shown to deviate significantly from the spin-echo reference values, this is not the case for corrected T2 values. Furthermore, applicability was demonstrated for in vivo neurological experiments.
In Chapter 6, a new auto-calibrating parallel imaging method called iterative GROG was pre- sented for the reconstruction of non-Cartesian data. A wide range of different non-Cartesian schemes have been proposed for data acquisition in MRI, that present various advantages over conventional Cartesian sampling such as faster acquisitions, improved dynamic imaging and in- trinsic motion correction. However, one drawback of non-Cartesian data is the more complicated reconstruction, which is ever more problematic for non-Cartesian parallel imaging techniques. Iterative GROG uses Calibrationless Parallel Imaging by Structured Low-Rank Matrix Completion (CPI) for data reconstruction. Since CPI requires points on a Cartesian grid, it cannot be used to directly reconstruct non-Cartesian data. Instead, Grappa Operator Gridding (GROG) is employed in a first step to move the non-Cartesian points to the nearest Cartesian grid locations. However, GROG requires a fully sampled center region of k-space for calibration. Combining both methods in an iterative scheme, accurate GROG weights can be obtained even from highly undersampled non-Cartesian data. Subsequently, CPI can be used to reconstruct either full k- space or a calibration area of arbitrary size, which can then be employed for data reconstruction with conventional parallel imaging methods.
In Chapter 7, a new 2D sampling scheme was introduced consisting of multiple oscillating effi- cient trajectories (MOET), that is optimized for Compressed Sensing (CS) reconstructions. For successful CS reconstruction of a particular data set, some requirements have to be met. First, ev- ery data sample has to carry information about the whole object, which is automatically fulfilled for the Fourier sampling employed in MRI. Additionally, the image to be reconstructed has to be sparse in an arbitrary domain, which is true for a number of different applications. Last, data sam- pling has to be performed in an incoherent fashion. For 2D imaging, this important requirement of CS is difficult to achieve with conventional Cartesian and non-Cartesian sampling schemes. Ra- dial sampling is often used for CS reconstructions of dynamic data despite the streaking present in undersampled images. To obtain incoherent aliasing artifacts in undersampled images while at the same time preserving the advantages of radial sampling for dynamic imaging, MOET com- bines radial spokes with oscillating gradients of varying amplitude and alternating orientation orthogonal to the readout direction. The advantage of MOET over radial sampling in CS re- constructions was demonstrated in simulations and in in vivo cardiac imaging. MOET provides superior results especially when used in CS reconstructions with a sparsity constraint directly in image space. Here, accurate results could be obtained even from few MOET projections, while the coherent streaking artifacts present in the case of radial sampling prevent image recovery even for smaller acceleration factors. For CS reconstructions of dynamic data with sparsity constraint in xf-space, the advantage of MOET is smaller since the temporal reordering is responsible for an important part of incoherency. However, as was shown in simulations of a moving phantom and in the reconstruction of ungated cardiac data, the additional spatial incoherency provided by MOET still leads to improved results with higher accuracy and may allow reconstructions with higher acceleration factors.
Fascinating pictures that can be interpreted as showing molecular orbitals have been obtained with various imaging techniques. Among these, angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) has emerged as a particularly powerful method. Orbital images have been used to underline the physical credibility of the molecular orbital concept. However, from the theory of the photoemission process it is evident that imaging experiments do not show molecular orbitals, but Dyson orbitals. The latter are not eigenstates of a single-particle Hamiltonian and thus do not fit into the usual simple interpretation of electronic structure in terms of molecular orbitals. In a combined theoretical and experimental study we thus check whether a Dyson-orbital and a molecular-orbital based interpretation of ARPES lead to differences that are relevant on the experimentally observable scale. We discuss a scheme that allows for approximately calculating Dyson orbitals with moderate computational effort. Electronic relaxation is taken into account explicitly. The comparison reveals that while molecular orbitals are frequently good approximations to Dyson orbitals, a detailed understanding of photoemission intensities may require one to go beyond the molecular orbital picture. In particular we clearly observe signatures of the Dyson-orbital character for an adsorbed semiconductor molecule in ARPES spectra when these are recorded over a larger momentum range than in earlier experiments.
We report on a quasi-planar quantum-dot-based single-photon source that shows an unprecedented high extraction efficiency of 42% without complex photonic resonator geometries or post-growth nanofabrication. This very high efficiency originates from the coupling of the photons emitted by a quantum dot to a Gaussian shaped nanohill defect that naturally arises during epitaxial growth in a self-aligned manner. We investigate the morphology of these defects and characterize the photonic operation mechanism. Our results show that these naturally arising coupled quantum dot-defects provide a new avenue for efficient (up to 42% demonstrated) and pure (g(2)(0) value of 0.023) single-photon emission.
Purpose: To compare a novel combined acquisition technique (CAT) of turbo-spin-echo (TSE) and echo-planar-imaging (EPI) with conventional TSE. CAT reduces the electromagnetic energy load transmitted for spin excitation. This radiofrequency (RF) burden is limited by the specific absorption rate (SAR) for patient safety. SAR limits restrict high-field MRI applications, in particular.
Material and Methods: The study was approved by the local Medical Ethics Committee. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants. T2- and PD-weighted brain images of n = 40 Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients were acquired by CAT and TSE at 3 Tesla. Lesions were recorded by two blinded, board-certificated neuroradiologists. Diagnostic equivalence of CAT and TSE to detect MS lesions was evaluated along with their SAR, sound pressure level (SPL) and sensations of acoustic noise, heating, vibration and peripheral nerve stimulation.
Results: Every MS lesion revealed on TSE was detected by CAT according to both raters (Cohen's kappa of within-rater/across-CAT/TSE lesion detection kappa(CAT) = 1.00, at an inter-rater lesion detection agreement of kappa(LES) = 0.82). CAT reduced the SAR burden significantly compared to TSE (p<0.001). Mean SAR differences between TSE and CAT were 29.0 (+/- 5.7) % for the T2-contrast and 32.7 (+/- 21.9) % for the PD-contrast (expressed as percentages of the effective SAR limit of 3.2 W/kg for head examinations). Average SPL of CAT was no louder than during TSE. Sensations of CAT-vs. TSE-induced heating, noise and scanning vibrations did not differ.
Conclusion: T2-/PD-CAT is diagnostically equivalent to TSE for MS lesion detection yet substantially reduces the RF exposure. Such SAR reduction facilitates high-field MRI applications at 3 Tesla or above and corresponding protocol standardizations but CAT can also be used to scan faster, at higher resolution or with more slices. According to our data, CAT is no more uncomfortable than TSE scanning.
This thesis describes the epitaxial growth of the Half-Heusler alloy NiMnSb by molecular beam epitaxy. Its structural and magnetic properties are controlled by tuning the composition and the resulting small deviation from stoichiometry. The magnetic in-plane anisotropy depends on the Mn concentration of the sample and can be controlled in both strength and orientation. This control of the magnetic anisotropy allows for growing NiMnSb layers of a given thickness and magnetic properties as requested for the design of NiMnSb-based devices. The growth and characterization of NiMnSb-ZnTe-NiMnSb heterostructures is presented - such heterostructures form an all-NiMnSb based spin-valve and are a promising basis for spin torque devices.
Here we report on a combined experimental and theoretical study on the structural and electronic properties of a monolayer of Copper-Phthalocyanine (CuPc) on the Au(1 1 0) surface. Low-energy electron diffraction reveals a commensurate overlayer unit cell containing one adsorbate species. The azimuthal alignment of the CuPc molecule is revealed by comparing experimental constant binding energy (kxky)-maps using angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy with theoretical momentum maps of the free molecule's highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO). This structural information is confirmed by total energy calculations within the framework of van-der-Waals corrected density functional theory. The electronic structure is further analyzed by computing the molecule-projected density of states, using both a semi-local and a hybrid exchange-correlation functional. In agreement with experiment, the HOMO is located about 1.2 eV below the Fermi-level, while there is no significant charge transfer into the molecule and the CuPc LUMO remains unoccupied on the Au(1 1 0) surface.
The surface electronic structure of the narrow-gap seminconductor BiTeI exhibits a large Rashba-splitting which strongly depends on the surface termination. Here we report on a detailed investigation of the surface morphology and electronic properties of cleaved BiTeI single crystals by scanning tunneling microscopy, photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES, XPS), electron diffraction (SPA-LEED) and density functional theory calculations. Our measurements confirm a previously reported coexistence of Te- and I-terminated surface areas originating from bulk stacking faults and find a characteristic length scale of ~100 nm for these areas. We show that the two terminations exhibit distinct types of atomic defects in the surface and subsurface layers. For electronic states resided on the I terminations we observe an energy shift depending on the time after cleavage. This aging effect is successfully mimicked by depositon of Cs adatoms found to accumulate on top of the I terminations. As shown theoretically on a microscopic scale, this preferential adsorbing behaviour results from considerably different energetics and surface diffusion lengths at the two terminations. Our investigations provide insight into the importance of structural imperfections as well as intrinsic and extrinsic defects on the electronic properties of BiTeI surfaces and their temporal stability.
This thesis reviews the fundamentals of three-dimensional super-resolution localization imaging. In order to infer the axial coordinate of the emission of single fluorophores, the point spread function is engineered following a technique usually referred to as astigmatic imaging by the introduction of a cylindrical lens to the detection path of a microscope.
After giving a short introduction to optics and localization microscopy, I outline sources of aberrations as frequently encountered in 3D-localization microscopy and will discuss their respective impact on the precision and accuracy of the localization process. With the knowledge from these considerations, experiments were designed and conducted to verify the validity of the conclusions and to demonstrate the abilities of the proposed microscope to resolve biological structures in the three spatial dimensions. Additionally, it is demonstrated that measurements of huge volumes with virtually no aberrations is in principle feasible.
During the course of this thesis, a new method was introduced for inferring axial coordinates. This interpolation method based on cubic B-splines shows superior performance in the calibration of a microscope and the evaluation of subsequent measurement and will therefore be used and explained in this work.
Finally, this work is also meant to give future students some guidance for entering the field of 3D localization microscopy and therefore, detailed protocols are provided covering the specific aspects of two color 3D localization imaging.