Proefschrift - Utrecht. / "Stellingen" ([3] p.) inserted. "De belangrijkste geschriften van O.G. Heldring": p. [xvii-xviii] ; bibliographical footnotes.

Diss. Hels. Phil.

The author's Habilitationsschrift--Universität Jena. / Includes bibliographical references and index.

The author's Habilitationsschrift--Universität Jena. / Includes bibliographical references and index.

Proefschrift - Utrecht. / "Stellingen" ([3] p.) inserted. "De belangrijkste geschriften van O.G. Heldring": p. [xvii-xviii] ; bibliographical footnotes.

Zugl.: Bonn, Univ., Diss., 2009

The realization of integrated-optic broadband wavelength devision multiplexer for separation of 1.31µm and 1.55µm wavelength window is demonstrated based on the well known arrayed waveguide structure. Broadband characteristic with passband greater than 100nm is achieved by using low diffraction order (m = 1, 2). The number of arrayed waveguides is W = 13 and W= 7 respectively. Structure parameters especially those for the star coupler region are derived by use of the transfer-matrix formalism for layered media and the wide-angle finite difference beam propagation method. Prototypes of these structures where realised as doped silica on silicon substrate by using standard plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) and reactive ion etching (RIE) techniques. The waveguide structure is based on a 7x7µm waveguide core with refractive index difference Dn = 0.005 with reference to a 20µm buffer and cladding layer. Phosphor and Boron were used as dopands of each silica layer to achieve proper adjustment of phys ical layer properties, i.e. refractive index and transformation temperature. Codopand Boron is used to open a selective thermal postprocessing of deposited layers to overcome inhomogeneous PECVD cladding layer deposition on the RIE structured waveguide

The present work investigates the interaction between buckminsterfullerene molecules (C60) and silicon surfaces as well as the influence of buckminsterfullerenes on metal/silicon interfaces. The knowledge about the mechanism of surface/molecule interaction between the technologically important semiconductor Si and C60 molecules may lead to new applications of fullerenes. In this context the present study compares the adsorption and the growth mechanisms as well as the desorption of C60 molecules which were evaporated onto well-prepared Si(111)-7x7-, Si(111):H-1x1- and Si(111):Ag-(sqrt(3) x sqrt(3))R30°-surfaces using Auger electron spectroscopy (AES), low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) under ultra-high vacuum conditions. The electronic structure of C60-covered Si(111)-7x7-, Si(111)-1x1-, Si(111):H-1x1-and Si(111):Ag-(sqrt(3) x sqrt(3))R30°-surfaces was investigated using ultraviolet and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS, XPS). From these experiments the molecule/surface interaction mechanisms can be identified. Crystalline C60 is a new semiconductor material. Therefore, evaporating C60 onto Si surfaces builds up a semiconductor heterostructure. The electronic properties of this heterostructure are characterized by the band discontinuities at the C60/Si interface. Using UPS and XPS the valence-band discontinuity at this semiconductor/semiconductor interface were determined. Additionally, metal/Si contacts were produced on initially clean silicon surfaces which were covered with distinct amounts of C60 before Ag-, Pb- or Pd-contacts were evaporated. The transport properties of these contacts were studied by current-voltage-chracteristics to determine the influence of C60-layers on the Schottky barrier heights of the metal/Si contacts.

Metamagnets have been playing an important role as model systems in the physics of phase transitions for 30 years. Especially the isolating substances FeCl2 and FeBr2 have attracted much interest both in experimental and theoretical physics. In this thesis we focus on experimental investigations of Fe1-xMgxBr2 with x = 0 and 0.05. By SQUID-magnetometry, SQUID-susceptometry, elastic neutron scattering and calorimetry we studied the magnetic phase boundaries and especially the recently found new phase transition at H=H1(T) (Aruga Katori et al. 1996). Also we arrived to a physical understanding of the non-critical fluctuations at H=H-(T) in terms of a smeared 2-dimensional phase transition of the spin down sublattice.

In the present thesis the structural and magnetic properties of 3d transition metals and their alloys have been investigated within the framework of density functional methods. The calculations have been made mainly to understand magneto-volume instabilities and martensitic phase transformations in iron-nickel and iron-manganese alloys. Many aspects of the alloys can already be understood from the discussion of elemental iron, which forms the essential part of this work. A simple thermodynamical approach combined with the ab-initio results allows the discussion of the physical properties to be extended to finite temperatures. The thermal expansion coefficients calculated within this model coincide well with experiment. Besides the magnetic iron alloys the nonmagnetic Al-Cu-Zn system has been investigated. This ternary alloy undergoes several martensitic phase transformations and spinodal decomposition has also been observed on the Al-Zn-rich side of the phase diagram. The spinodal decomposition is relieved by incommensurable ordering if the aluminium atoms are increasingly replaced by copper. The mixing behavior and the structural phase stability at T = 0 K are obtained from ab initio electronic structure calculations for ordered compounds. The experimental trends are well reproduced. - In dieser Arbeit werden die strukturellen und magnetischen Eigenschaften von 3d-Übergangsmetallen und ihren Verbindungen mit Hilfe verschiedener Methoden der Dichtefunktionaltheorie behandelt. Dabei werden insbesondere Magnetovolumen-Instabilitäten und martensitische Phasenübergänge in Eisen-Nickel und Eisen-Mangan-Verbindungen diskutiert. Einen zentralen Punkt der Arbeit bildet die Untersuchung von elementarem Eisen, da viele Eigenschaften der Legierungen bereits dadurch verstanden werden können. Die Verknüpfung der ab-initio-Ergebnisse mit einem einfachen thermodynamischen Ansatz ermöglicht eine Diskussion bei endlichen Temperaturen. Die im Rahmen dieses Modells berechneten thermischen Ausdehnungskoeffizienten zeigen bereits eine gute Übereinstimmung mit den experimentellen Daten. Neben den Eisenlegierungen wird das nichtmagnetische System Al-Cu-Zn untersucht, welches in bestimmten Konzentrationsbereichen ebenfalls martensitische Phasenübergänge aufweist und auf der Al-Zn-Seite spinodale Entmischung zeigt, die mit zunehmender Substitution von Aluminium durch Kupfer in inkommensurable Ordnung übergeht. An Hand von ab-initio-Berechnungen der elektronischen Struktur geordneter Verbindungen wird das Mischungsverhalten sowie die strukturelle Phasenstabilität des Systems für T = 0 K untersucht. Die Ergebnisse spiegeln die experimentell gefundenen Tendenzen gut wieder.