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Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist eine umfassende numerische und experimentelle Charakterisierung des Wärmetransports in oxidkeramischen Faserisolationen im Hochtemperaturbereich. Zugleich sollen neue Konzepte für eine optimierte technische Auslegung von Faserisolationen erarbeitet werden. Oxidkeramiken zeigen im Infrarotbereich ein semitransparentes Verhalten. Das bedeutet, ein Teil der Strahlung gelangt durch die Probe, ohne gestreut oder absorbiert zu werden. Durch die Ausgestaltung als disperses Medium mit Abmessungen der Fasern im $\mu m$ Bereich wird jedoch eine starke Wechselwirkung mit infraroter Lichtstrahlung erzeugt. Man befindet sich im optischen Resonanzbereich. Technisch relevante Faserisolationen besitzen eine Rohdichte zwischen $50 \mathrm{kg/m^3}$ und $700 \mathrm{kg/m^3}$ und können als optisch dichtes Medium betrachtet werden. Eine Optimierung hinsichtlich der Dämmwirkung gegen Wärmestrahlung bedeutet eine massenspezifische Maximierung des Lichtstreuvermögens im relevanten Wellenlängenbereich. Hierzu werden in einer numerischen Studie keramische Hohlfaserisolationen mit konventionellen Fasern verglichen. Diese Abhandlung unter Berücksichtigung anwendungsnaher Aspekte gelangt zu der Schlussfolgerung, dass die Strahlungswärmestromdichte in Hohlfaserisolationen, im Vergleich zu konventionellen Isolationen, signifikant erniedrigt wird. Hinsichtlich der Gesamtwärmeleitfähigkeit ist eine Reduzierung um den Faktor zwei zu erwarten. \\
Trotz moderner Rechner ist die Anwendung der vollen Maxwellschen Streutheorie, insbesondere im Rahmen von Optimierungsaufgaben mehrschichtiger Streukörper, ein zeitaufwendiges Unterfangen. Um sinnvolle Parameterkonfigurationen bereichsweise eingrenzen zu können, wird eine Näherungsmethode für die Lichtstreuung an mehrschichtigen Zylindern weiterentwickelt und mit der vollständigen Maxwellschen Streutheorie verglichen. Es zeigt sich, dass das Modell für kleine bis moderate Brechungsindizes sehr gute Vorhersagekraft besitzt und auch zur näherungsweisen Berechnung der Streueffizienzen für räumlich isotrop angeordnete Zylinder herangezogen werden kann. \\
Neben den numerischen Studien wird im experimentellen Teil dieser Arbeit
eine kommerzielle Faserisolierung aus Aluminiumoxid hinsichtlich ihrer Wärmetransporteigenschaften charakterisiert. Die optischen Transportparameter Albedo und Extinktion werden mittels etablierter Messmethoden bestimmt. Bei bekannter Faserdurchmesserverteilung können diese Messwerte dann mit den theoretischen Vorhersagen der Maxwellschen Streutheorie verglichen werden.\\
Um technische Optimierungsmaßnahmen experimentell zu verifizieren, besteht die Notwendigkeit, die Temperaturleitfähigkeit bzw. die Wärmeleitfähigkeit auch bei hohen Temperaturen oberhalb von $1000^\mathrm{o}\mathrm{C}$ zuverlässig bestimmen zu können. Zu diesem Zweck wird ein Versuchsaufbau realisiert, um in diesem Temperaturbereich erstmals die sogenannte Thermal-Wave-Analyse anzuwenden. Durch Abgleich mit einem gekoppelten Wärmetransportmodell und einem etablierten Messverfahren wird die besondere Eignung der Thermal-Wave-Analyse für berührungsfreie Hochtemperaturmessungen gezeigt.
The optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers are widely dominated by excitons, Coulomb-bound electron–hole pairs. These quasi-particles exhibit giant oscillator strength and give rise to narrow-band, well-pronounced optical transitions, which can be brought into resonance with electromagnetic fields in microcavities and plasmonic nanostructures. Due to the atomic thinness and robustness of the monolayers, their integration in van der Waals heterostructures provides unique opportunities for engineering strong light-matter coupling. We review first results in this emerging field and outline future opportunities and challenges.
One of the most significant technological advances in history was driven by the utilization of a new material class: semiconductors.
Its most important application being the transistor, which is indispensable in our everyday life. The technological advance in the semiconductor industry, however, is about to slow down. Making transistors ever smaller to increase the performance and trying to reduce and deal with the dissipative heat will soon reach the limits dictated by quantum mechanics with Moore himself, predicting the death of his famous law in the next decade.
A possible successor for semiconductor transistors is the recently discovered material class of topological insulators. A material which in its bulk is insulating but has topological protected metallic surface states or edge states at its boundary. Their electrical transport characteristics include forbidden backscattering and spin-momentum-locking with the spin of the electron being perpendicular to its momentum. Topological insulators therefore offer an opportunity for high performance devices with low dissipation, and applications in spintronic where data is stored and processed at the same point.
The topological insulator Bi\(_2\)Se\(_3\) and related compounds offer relatively high energy band gaps and a rather simple band structure with a single dirac cone at the gamma point of the Brillouin zone. These characteritics make them ideal candidates to study the topological surface state in electrical transport experiments and explore its physics.
Topolectrical Circuits
(2018)
Invented by Alessandro Volta and Félix Savary in the early 19th century, circuits consisting of resistor, inductor and capacitor (RLC) components are omnipresent in modern technology. The behavior of an RLC circuit is governed by its circuit Laplacian, which is analogous to the Hamiltonian describing the energetics of a physical system. Here we show that topological insulating and semimetallic states can be realized in a periodic RLC circuit. Topological boundary resonances (TBRs) appear in the impedance read-out of a topolectrical circuit, providing a robust signal for the presence of topological admittance bands. For experimental illustration, we build the Su-Schrieffer–Heeger circuit, where our impedance measurement detects the TBR midgap state. Topolectrical circuits establish a bridge between electrical engineering and topological states of matter, where the accessibility, scalability, and operability of electronics synergizes with the intricate boundary properties of topological phases.
Transition metal oxides (TMO) represent a highly interesting material class as
they exhibit a variety of different emergent phenomena including multiferroicity and
superconductivity. These effects result from a significant interplay of charge, spin
and orbital degrees of freedom within the correlated d-electrons. Oxygen vacancies
(OV) at the surface of certain d0 TMO release free charge carriers and prompt the
formation of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). Barium titanate (BaTiO3) is a
prototypical and promising d0 TMO. It displays ferroelectricity at room temperature
and features several structural phase transitions, from cubic over tetragonal (at
room temperature) and orthorhombic to rhombohedral. The spontaneous electric
polarization in BaTiO3 can be used to manipulate the physical properties of adjacent
materials, e.g. in thin films. Although the macroscopic properties of BaTiO3 are studied
in great detail, the microscopic electronic structure at the surface and interface of
BaTiO3 is not sufficiently understood yet due to the complex interplay of correlation
within the d states, oxygen vacancies at the surface, ferroelectricity in the bulk and
the structural phase transitions in BaTiO3.
This thesis investigates the electronic structure of different BaTiO3 systems by
means of angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES). The valence band of
BaTiO3 single crystals is systematically characterized and compared to theoretical
band structure calculations. A finite p-d hybridization of titanium and oxygen states
was inferred at the high binding energy side of the valence band. In BaTiO3 thin films,
the occurrence of spectral weight near the Fermi level could be linked to a certain
amount of OV at the surface which effectively dopes the host system. By a systematic
study of the metallic surface states as a function of temperature and partial oxygen
pressure, a model was established which reflects the depletion and accumulation of
charge carriers at the surface of BaTiO3. An instability at T ~ 285K assumes a volatile
behavior of these surface states.
The ferroelectricity in BaTiO3 allows a control of the electronic structure at the interface
of BaTiO3-based heterostructures. Therefore, the interface electronic structure
of Bi/BaTiO3 was studied with respect to the strongly spin-orit coupled states in Bi by
also including a thickness dependent characterization. The ARPES results, indeed,
confirm the presence of Rashba spin-split electronic states in the bulk band gap of the ferroelectric substrate. By varying the film thickness in Bi/BaTiO3, it was able to modify
the energy position and the Fermi vector of the spin-split states. This observation
is associated with the appearance of an interface state which was observed for very
low film thickness. Both spectral findings suggest a significant coupling between the
Bi films and BaTiO3.
Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit der Untersuchung und Manipulation von Halbleitern, bei
denen die Spin-Bahn-Kopplung (SBK) in Kombination mit einem Bruch der strukturellen Inversionssymmetrie zu einer impulsabhängigen Spinaufspaltung der Bandstruktur führt. Von besonderem Interesse ist hierbei der Zusammenhang zwischen der spinabhängigen elektronischen Struktur und der strukturellen Geometrie. Dieser wird durch eine Kombination komplementärer, oberflächensensitiver Messmethoden - insbesondere Rastertunnelmikroskopie
(STM) und Photoelektronenspektroskopie (PES) - an geeigneten
Modellsystemen untersucht. Der experimentelle Fokus liegt dabei auf den polaren Halbleitern BiTeX (X =I, Br, Cl). Zusätzliche Experimente werden an dünnen Schichten der topologischen Isolatoren (TI) Bi1,1-xSb0;9+xSe3 (x = 0. . . 1,1) und Bi2Te2Se durchgeführt. Die inversionsasymmetrische Kristallstruktur in BiTeX führt zur Existenz zweier nicht-äquivalenter Oberflächen mit unterschiedlicher Terminierung (Te oder X) und invertierter atomarer Stapelfolge. STM-Aufnahmen der Oberflächen gespaltener Einkristalle belegen für BiTeI(0001) eine Koexistenz beider Terminierungen auf einer Längenskala von etwa 100 nm, die sich auf Stapelfehler im Kristallvolumen zurückführen lassen. Diese Domänen sind groß genug, um eine vollständig entwickelte Banddispersion auszubilden und erzeugen daher eine Kombination der Bandstrukturen beider Terminierungen bei räumlich integrierenden Messmethoden. BiTeBr(0001) und BiTeCl(0001) hingegen zeichnen sich durch homogene Terminierungen auf einer makroskopischen Längenskala aus. Atomar
aufgelöste STM-Messungen zeigen für die drei Systeme unterschiedliche Defektdichten der einzelnen Lagen sowie verschiedene strukturelle Beeinflussungen durch die Halogene. PES-Messungen belegen einen starken Einfluss der Terminierung auf verschiedene Eigenschaften der Oberflächen, insbesondere auf die elektronische Bandstruktur, die Austrittsarbeit sowie auf die Wechselwirkung mit Adsorbaten. Die unterschiedliche Elektronegativität der Halogene resultiert in verschieden starken Ladungsübergängen innerhalb der kovalent-ionisch gebundenen BiTe+ X- Einheitszelle. Eine erweiterte Analyse der Oberflächeneigenschaften ist durch die Bedampfung mit Cs möglich, wobei eine Änderung der elektronischen Struktur durch die Wechselwirkung mit dem Alkalimetall studiert wird. Modifiziert man die Kristallstruktur sowie die chemische Zusammensetzung von BiTeI(0001) nahe der Oberfläche durch Heizen im Vakuum, bewirkt dies eine Veränderung der Bandstruktur in zwei Schritten. So führt zunächst der Verlust von Iod zum Verlust der Rashba-Aufspaltung, was vermutlich durch eine Aufhebung der Inversionsasymmetrie in der Einheitszelle verursacht wird. Anschließend bildet sich eine neue Kristallstruktur, die topologisch nichttriviale Oberflächenzustände hervorbringt. Der Umordnungsprozess betrifft allerdings nur die Kristalloberfläche - im Volumen bleibt die inversionsasymmetrische
Einheitszelle erhalten. Einem derartigen Hybridsystem werden bislang unbekannte elektronische Eigenschaften vorausgesagt. Eine systematische Untersuchung von Dünnschicht-TIs, die mittels Molekularstrahlepitaxie (MBE) erzeugt wurden, zeigt eine Veränderung der Morphologie und elektronischen Struktur in Abhängigkeit von Stöchiometrie und Substrat. Der Vergleich zwischen MBE und gewachsenen Einkristallen offenbart deutliche Unterschiede. Bei einem der Dünnschichtsysteme tritt sogar eine lokal inhomogene Zustandsdichte im Bindungsenergiebereich des topologischen Oberflächenzustands auf.
In Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), acquisition of dynamic data may be highly complex due to rapid changes occurred in the object to be imaged. For clinical diagnostic, dynamic MR images require both high spatial and temporal resolution. The speed in the acquisition is a crucial factor to capture optimally dynamics of the objects to obtain accurate diagnosis. In the 90’s, partially parallel MRI (pMRI) has been introduced to shorten scan times reducing the amount of acquired data. These approaches use multi-receiver coil arrays to acquire independently and simultaneously the data.
Reduction in the amount of acquired data results in images with aliasing artifacts. Dedicated methods as such Sensitivity Encoding (SENSE) and Generalized Autocalibrating Partially Parallel Acquisition (GRAPPA) were the basis of a series of algorithms in pMRI.
Nevertheless, pMRI methods require extra spatial or temporal information in order to optimally reconstruct the data. This information is typically obtained by an extra scan or embedded in the accelerated acquisition applying a variable density acquisition scheme.
In this work, we were able to reduce or totally eliminate the acquisition of the training data for kt-SENSE and kt-PCA algorithms obtaining accurate reconstructions with high temporal fidelity.
For dynamic data acquired in an interleaved fashion, the temporal average of accelerated data can generate an artifact-free image used to estimate the coil sensitivity maps avoiding the need of extra acquisitions. However, this temporal average contains errors from aliased components, which may lead to signal nulls along the spectra of reconstructions when methods like kt-SENSE are applied. The use of a GRAPPA filter applied to the temporal average reduces these errors and subsequently may reduce the null components in the reconstructed data. In this thesis the effect of using temporal averages from radial data was investigated. Non-periodic artifacts performed by undersampling radial data allow a more accurate estimation of the true temporal average and thereby avoiding undesirable temporal filtering in the reconstructed images. kt-SENSE exploits not only spatial coil sensitivity variations but also makes use of spatio-temporal correlations in order to separate the aliased signals. Spatio-temporal correlations in kt-SENSE are learnt using a training data set, which consists of several central k-space lines acquired in a separate scan. The scan of these extra lines results in longer acquisition times even for low resolution images. It was demonstrate that limited spatial resolution of training data set may lead to temporal filtering effects (or temporal blurring) in the reconstructed data.
In this thesis, the auto-calibration for kt-SENSE was proposed and its feasibility was tested in order to completely eliminate the acquisition of training data. The application of a prior TSENSE reconstruction produces the training data set for the kt-SENSE algorithm. These training data have full spatial resolution. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that the proposed auto-calibrating method reduces significantly temporal filtering in the reconstructed images compared to conventional kt-SENSE reconstructions employing low resolution training images. However, the performance of auto-calibrating kt-SENSE is affected by the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) of the first pass reconstructions that propagates to the final reconstructions.
Another dedicated method used in dynamic MRI applications is kt-PCA, that was first proposed for the reconstruction of MR cardiac data. In this thesis, kt-PCA was employed for the generation of spatially resolved M0, T1 and T2 maps from a single accelerated IRTrueFISP or IR-Snapshot FLASH measurement. In contrast to cardiac dynamic data, MR relaxometry experiments exhibit signal at all temporal frequencies, which makes their reconstruction more challenging. However, since relaxometry measurements can be represented by only few parameters, the use of few principal components (PC) in the kt-PCA algorithm can significantly simplify the reconstruction. Furthermore, it was found that due to high redundancy in relaxometry data, PCA can efficiently extract the required information from just a single line of training data.
It has been demonstrated in this thesis that auto-calibrating kt-SENSE is able to obtain high temporal fidelity dynamic cardiac reconstructions from moderate accelerated data avoiding the extra acquisition of training data. Additionally, kt-PCA has been proved to be a suitable method for the reconstruction of highly accelerated MR relaxometry data.
Furthermore, a single central training line is necessary to obtain accurate reconstructions. Both reconstruction methods are promising for the optimization of training data acquisition and seem to be feasible for several clinical applications.
In this dissertation the electronic and high-energy optical properties of thin nanoscale
films of the magnetic topological insulator (MTI) (V,Cr)y(BixSb1-x)2-yTe3 are studied
by means of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and electron energy-loss
spectroscopy (EELS). Magnetic topological insulators are presently of broad interest
as the combination of ferromagnetism and spin-orbit coupling in these materials
leads to a new topological phase, the quantum anomalous Hall state (QAHS), with
dissipation less conduction channels. Determining and controlling the physical
properties of these complex materials is therefore desirable for a fundamental understanding
of the QAHS and for their possible application in spintronics. EELS can
directly probe the electron energy-loss function of a material from which one can
obtain the complex dynamic dielectric function by means of the Kramers-Kronig
transformation and the Drude-Lindhard model of plasmon oscillations.
The XPS core-level spectra in (V,Cr)y(BixSb1-x)2-yTe3 are analyzed in detail with
regards to inelastic background contributions. It is shown that the spectra can be
accurately described based on the electron energy-loss function obtained from an
independent EELS measurement. This allows for a comprehensive and quantitative
analysis of the XPS data, which will facilitate future core-level spectroscopy studies
in this class of topological materials. From the EELS data, furthermore, the bulk and
surface optical properties were estimated, and compared to ab initio calculations
based on density functional theory (DFT) performed in the GW approximation
for Sb2Te3. The experimental results show a good agreement with the calculated
complex dielectric function and the calculated energy-loss function. The positions of
the main plasmon modes reported here are expected to be generally similar in other
materials in this class of nanoscale TI films. Hence, the present work introduces
EELS as a powerful method to access the high-energy optical properties of TI
thin films. Based on the presented results it will be interesting to explore more
systematically the effects of stoichiometry, magnetic doping, film thickness and
surface morphology on the electron-loss function, potentially leading to a better
understanding of the complex interplay of structural, electronic, magnetic and
optical properties in MTI nanostructures.
Single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) aims for maximized precision and a high signal-to-noise ratio1. Both features can be provided by placing the emitter in front of a metal-dielectric nanocoating that acts as a tuned mirror2,3,4. Here, we demonstrate that a higher photon yield at a lower background on biocompatible metal-dielectric nanocoatings substantially improves SMLM performance and increases the localization precision by up to a factor of two. The resolution improvement relies solely on easy-to-fabricate nanocoatings on standard glass coverslips and is spectrally and spatially tunable by the layer design and wavelength, as experimentally demonstrated for dual-color SMLM in cells.
This paper reports searches for heavy resonances decaying into ZZ or ZW using data from proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of root s - 13 TeV. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb(-1), were recorded with the ATLAS detector in 2015 and 2016 at the Large Hadron Collider. The searches are performed in final states in which one Z boson decays into either a pair of light charged leptons (electrons and muons) or a pair of neutrinos, and the associated W boson or the other Z boson decays hadronically. No evidence of the production of heavy resonances is observed. Upper bounds on the production cross sections of heavy resonances times their decay branching ratios to ZZ or ZW are derived in the mass range 300-5000 GeV within the context of Standard Model extensions with additional Higgs bosons, a heavy vector triplet or warped extra dimensions. Production through gluon-gluon fusion, Drell-Yan or vector-boson fusion are considered, depending on the assumed model.