The dye-sensitized solar cell is a promising solar cell technology. In these systems the key process for light to electricity conversion is molecular in nature and is initiated in dye molecules adsorbed at a semiconducting surface. This thesis focuses on the electronic and molecular surface structure of the dye/TiO2 interface, and the experimental results were obtained from surface sensitive X-ray based electron spectroscopic methods. Two families of dyes, triarylamine based organic dyes and ruthenium based inorganic dyes, were investigated. The effect of dye structural modications on the interfacial properties was studied, such as the surface concentrations, dye molecular surface orientation, molecular interactions, and energy level matching. Also, the impact of additional parameters such as the incorporation of coadsorbents and the solvents used for dye sensitization were studied and complementary photoelectrochemical characterization was used to demonstrate functional properties corresponding to changes in the molecular layers. The experiments provided information on how specic structural modications change the frontier electronic structure. The results also showed that the adsorption of the organic dye leads to submolecular electronic changes, and that the dye surface orientations in general favor effcient energy conversion. Moreover, effects of solvents and coadsorbents, on both energy level matching between the dye and the TiO2 substrate and the surfacemolecular structure were quantied.

This thesis is an investigation of surface morphology and electronic structure of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) and solid water films deposited on these SAMs using metastable impact electron spectroscopy (MIES) and infrared reflection-absorption spectroscopy (IRRAS). MIES uses electronically excited slow helium atoms which interact exclusively with the outermost surface layer. The results suggested that in the SAMs containing an odd number of carbon atoms the molecular orbitals localized on the terminal methyl groups are more exposed at the surface compared to those with an even number of carbon atoms. It was also established that solid water films are more uniform on a SAM substrate containing an odd number of carbon atoms. Thermal transformation of amorphous solid water to polycrystalline ice was also observed. MIES suggested that the molecular orbital of water attributed to the lone pair on the oxygen atom became less accessible at the surface upon the transformation.

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The subject of diploma thesis is analysis of the European Standard EN ISO 10012, which has a status of a Czech Standard (ČSN EN ISO 10012). It’s focused on roughness measurement. The thesis was written in cooperation with a private company called PLASMAMETAL Ltd. situated in Brno. The company offers coating applications for a variety of materials. Important part of the thesis is a measurement management system improvement manual for PLASMAMETAL Ltd. It’s also dealt with the economical aspect of an investement into a new measurement equipment.

Forskning och karakterisering av alpinskidors belag kräver mycket tid och resurser att utföra därav försvinner informationsmängd inom området, då de tester som görs inte delas offentligt. Idag användsuteslutningsmetoden mycket och inte mätvärden som testats fram. Idenna rapport undersöks varför den ena skidan är snabbare än den andra med hjälp av teknisk information i form av data.Arbetet kring studien introducerades med en förstudie. I förstudien identifierades problem, analys av artiklar samt förberedelse kring intervju. Under arbetet har större del av tiden arbetats kring glidtester och uppsikt av strukturen samt att undersöka strukturer på belaget med mikroskop på ett laboratorium i Uppsala.Resultatet omfattar teoretiskt bevis grundat på mätdata som arbetats fram vid Ångströms laboratorium. Med hjälp av tre skilda strukturer som syftar till varierande karaktär, visar resultaten hur olika strukturer ger utslag i glid mellan snö och belag. Strukturerna som användes var helbäddsstruktur, kryss-struktur med släppta kanter samt fiskbensstruktur.Slutsatser kring projektet är att det glidtest som utfördes inte höll tillräckligt hög standard. För att kunna styrka att någon av strukturerna var snabbare än den andra behöver man utveckla glidtestet. Tiderna indikerar på skillnad i strukturerna, men på grund av de brister i testet som uppkom kan man inte med säkerhet fastställa att det är enbart strukturen som gör att tiden påverkas.Det går inte hitta någon korrelation mellan mikroskopsbilderna och de resultat man fick från glidtesterna, vilket ledet till att målet inte uppnåttsmed att hitta de parametrar som påverkar friktionen mellan skida ochsnö / In this study, the characteristics of an alpine ski’s base structure arepresented. The goal is to identify which parameters on the surface control the friction between the ski and the snow. The project is based on selfstudies through laboratory experiments and tests has been completed with facts from scientific reports and articles. This thesis is written for Sports Technology - Bachelor of Science in Product Development at Mid Sweden University Spring term 2022.Research and characterization of the alpine ski base require a lot of time and resources. As a result, the amount of information in the area disappears, as the tests performed are not shared publicly. Exclusion methods is the most common method used today and not measured values that have been tested. This report examines why one ski is faster than the other using technical data.The pilot study identified problems-, analyzed articles, and made the necessary preparations for the interviews. During the rest of the study, the main part of the time has been put into glide testing, an inspection of the structure and also observing the base of the ski with a microscope at the laboratory in Uppsala.The result covers theoretical evidence based on the measurement data that has been subtracted at the Ångstöms laboratory. With the help of three different structures aiming for varying characters, the result shows how these different structured bases interact with the snow. The structures used were full bed Cross structure, Cross structure withshaped edges and fishbone structure.Conclusions about the project are that the ski test that was performed did not maintain a sufficiently high standard. To be able to prove that one of the structures was faster than the other you need to develop the ski test. The times indicate a difference in the structures, but due to the shortcomings in the test that arose, it cannot be established with certainty that it is only the structure that causes the time to be affected.Karakterisering av ytstrukturen på en alpinskidas belagMittuniversitetet2022-05-25Based on the Mid Sweden University template for technical reports, written by Magnus Eriksson, Kenneth Berg and MivIt is not possible to find any correlation between the microscope images and the results obtained from the tests, which led to the goal not being achieved by finding the parameters that affect the friction between skisand snow / <p>2022-07-01</p>

<p>This thesis explores the ablation and texturing of synthetic single crystal diamond under ultrashort laser pulse irradiation in rough vacuum ambient conditions. Experiments were performed with a 1 kHz repetition rate titanium sapphire laser system producing pulses at 800 nm central wavelength and 150 fs pulse duration. First, the production of ordered periodic nanostructures (ripples) on the diamond surface was characterized and the periodicity of these structures was analyzed against irradiation parameters. Ripples were usually found to fall into one of two categories: one with a spatial period near the irradiation wavelength and one with a spatial period near λ/2n, where λ is the central laser wavelength in air and n is the refractive index of diamond at λ. The spatial periods were plotted against irradiation conditions including the peak fluence, number of incident pulses, and the angle of incidence. Unique outcomes arising out of complex irradiation conditions were also explored. Second, the ablation thresholds for single pulse up to 1000 pulse irradiation were determined using the <em>D</em>² method at both the fundamental central wavelength (800 nm) and the second harmonic (400 nm). The single 800 nm pulse ablation threshold for synthetic single crystal diamond was determined to be 2.3 J/cm² with an incubation coefficient of 0.54. The single 400 nm pulse ablation threshold was determined to be 1.5 J/cm² with an incubation coefficient of 0.73.</p> / Master of Applied Science (MASc)

In this Thesis experimental studies of nano-clusters using synchrotron radiation based photoelectron (UPS and XPS) and Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES) are presented. The investigations may be divided into two parts where the first reports on the structure of heterogeneous two component clusters, and the second concerns electronic decay processes. Using photoelectron spectroscopies as investigative tools the radial composition of heteroclusters of argon mixed with xenon, krypton or neon has been determined. Two methods of heterogeneous cluster production were employed: co-expansion and doping/pick-up. By analyzing the line shapes, energy positions, and widths of the spectral cluster features the radial composition of the clusters produced by co-expansion were found to form close-to-equilibrium structures, placing the component with larger cohesive energy in the cluster core while the second component was to varying degree segregated toward the surface. By instead using the doping/pick-up technique the opposite radial structures, i.e. far-from-equilibrium structures, may be formed. In the case of argon/krypton clusters a similar surface structure is formed regardless of production technique. The second part of the Thesis concerns post-ionization decay processes. Experimental evidence for the Interatomic Coulombic Decay process, a theoretically predicted decay channel, is presented in a study of homogeneous neon clusters. The time scale of the decay was determined to 6±1 fs for bulk atoms and &gt;30 fs for surface atoms in the neon cluster, showing the connection between local geometry and dynamics of the decay. Another channel for electronic relaxation is Auger decay. This Thesis presents a method of disentangling the spectral surface and bulk responses from clusters in Auger spectra. Studies of argon clusters show that the AES technique is more surface sensitive than XPS, even at the same electron kinetic energy. Furthermore, the effect scattering of the photoelectron has on the Auger spectra was investigated. Special effort was put into explaining an experimentally observed photon energy dependent intensity appearing on the high-kinetic energy side on the Auger signal. We propose that this intensity is due to a solid state-specific photoelectron recapture process we name Pre-Auger Recapture (PAR), which affects the kinetic energy of the Auger electrons.

In dieser Dissertation wird die Struktur von ultradünnen Schichten auf atomar ebenen Festkörperoberflächen durch die streifende Streuung von Atomen und Molekülen untersucht. Dabei werden Atome mit kinetischen Energien im keV-Bereich unter flachem Einfallswinkel von etwa 1° an der Oberfläche gestreut und mit einem ortsauflösenden Detektor nachgewiesen. Bei hinreichend kleinen Projektilenergien werden Beugungserscheinungen beobachtet, die durch Interferenz von Materiewellen erklärt werden können. Die Auswertung der Intensität der Beugungsreflexe ermöglicht die Bestimmung von Atompositionen. Wird die Probe azimutal verdreht, ändern sich die seitliche Ablenkung der Projektile und die Zahl der während des Streuprozesses an der Oberfläche emittierten Elektronen. Dies wird zur Identifikation von Richtungen mit dichtgepackten Atomketten genutzt und der Vergleich mit Trajektoriensimulationen gestattet Rückschlüsse auf die Atompositionen der obersten Lage. Beim System einer Atomlage SiO2/Mo(112) kann durch mehrere Messmethoden eindeutig zwischen zwei konkurrierenden Strukturmodellen unterschieden und die Atompositionen eines Modells mit hoher Genauigkeit bestätigt werden. Die Adsorption von Sauerstoff auf einer Mo(112)-Oberfläche wird detailliert studiert und für mehrere Überstrukturphasen werden Modelle aufgestellt. Für V2O3/Au(111) kann durch Triangulationsmessungen eine geringfügige Modifikation eines existierenden Strukturmodells abgeleitet werden. Auf einer Cu(001)-Oberfläche werden dünne, kristalline FeO und Fe3O4-Schichten präpariert und untersucht. Die Inkommensurabilität der quadratischen Substrat- und der hexagonalen Adsorbateinheitszelle führt zu komplexen LEED-Mustern, die durch Mehrfachstreuung erklärt werden können. Dies ist auch der Schlüssel zur Erklärung der Beugungsbilder bei Adsorbatstrukturen der chiralen Aminosäure Alanin auf Cu(110) und damit die Grundlage für die Aufstellung eines Strukturmodells für dieses System. / In this thesis the structure of ultrathin films on atomically flat crystal surfaces is investigated by means of grazing scattering of atoms and molecules. Atoms with kinetic energies in the keV regime are scattered from the surface under small angles of incidence of approximately 1° and are detected by means of a position-sensitive detector. For sufficiently small projectile energies diffraction phenomena are observed which can be explained by interference of matter waves. The analysis of the intensities of diffraction spots makes it possible to determine atomic positions. When the sample is rotated azimuthally the deflection of projectiles and the number of emitted electrons during the scattering process at the surface varies. This is used to identify directions with close-packed strings of atoms and comparison with trajectory simulations gives information on atomic positions of the topmost layer. For the system of one atomic layer of SiO2/Mo(112) it can be unambiguously distinguished between two competing structural models. The positions of atoms of one model are confirmed with high accuracy by the use of several methods. The adsorption of oxygen on a Mo(112) surface is studied in detail and for several superstructure phases models are proposed. For the surface of a V2O3 layer on a Au(111) substrate a slight modification of an existing structural model is derived by means of triangulation measurements. On a Cu(001) surface thin crystalline FeO and Fe3O4 films are grown and studied. The incommensurability of the quadratic substrate with the hexagonal adsorbate surface unit cell gives rise to complex pattern for low energy electron diffraction, which can be explained by multiple scattering. This is also the key to the explanation of diffraction images for adsorbate structures of the chiral amino acid alanine on Cu(110) and the basis for developing a structural model for this system.

Die Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit der Bestimmung der Oberflächenstruktur von Oxidkristallen. Die strukturelle Charakterisierung fand mittels der streifenden Streuung schneller Atome und Moleküle statt. Bei dieser Methode werden Atome oder Moleküle mit Energien im keV Bereich unter streifendem Einfall an einer Einkristalloberfläche gestreut. Sie werden unter axialer Gitterführung entlang niedrig-indizierter Kristallrichtungen gestreut und können mittels eines ortsauflösenden Detektors nachgewiesen werden. Bei hinreichend kleinen Energien werden Beugungserscheinungen beobachtet, die auf die Interferenz von Materiewellen zurückzuführen sind. Durch eine Analyse der Streuverteilung der Projektile, können Rückschlüsse auf das Wechselwirkungspotential und somit auf die Struktur der Oberfläche gezogen werden. Durch die Untersuchung der (100)- und (001)-Fläche konnten alle Gitterparameter des Ga2O3-Systems bestimmt werden. Die Messungen an der (100) Fläche lieferten Aufschluss über die Terminierung, für die ein alternatives Strukturmodell entwickelt wurde. Aufbauend auf der Entdeckung der longitudinalen Kohärenz bei der streifenden Streuung von Atomen an der Al2O3(11-20)-Fläche konnten die vorhandenen Messungen erweitert und ein effektives Auswerteprogramm entwickelt werden. Bei Messungen an der Al2O3(0001)-Fläche wurde ebenfalls das Auftreten einer longitudinalen Kohärenz beobachtet. Für beide Flächen wurden die jeweiligen Gitterparameter mit höchster Präzision bestimmt und die Intensitätsverteilung der Streubilder durch ein einfaches Modell beschrieben. Erstmalig in dieser Arbeitsgruppe konnte ein Wechselwirkungspotential für die Streuung von H2-Molekülen an einer KCl(001)-Fläche abgeleitet werden. Der im Experiment beobachtete drastische Unterschied in der Intensitätsmodulation der Beugungsreflexe mit der senkrecht-de Broglie Wellenlänge für gestreute Atome und Moleküle konnte mit Simulationen unter Verwendung des abgeleiteten Wechselwirkungspotentials erklärt werden. / This PhD thesis deals with the investigation of surface structures of oxide crystal surfaces. Therefore, the method of grazing scattering of fast atoms and molecules was applied. The projectiles are scattered with energies in the keV range under grazing incidence from a single crystal surface along low-indexed surface directions. They are recorded with a position sensitive detector. For sufficiently low energies diffraction patterns are observed that can be understood in terms of the interference of matter waves. By analyzing these patterns the interaction potential and in this manner the surface structure can be derived. The investigation of the (100) and (001) surface led to a determination of all lattice parameters of the Ga2O3 system so that it was possible to determine the termination of the (100) surface. An alternative structural model for this termination could be derived. After the discovery of a longithudinal coherence for the grazing scattering process on a Al2O3(11-20) surface, the existing measurements were expanded and an effective evaluation procedure was developed. In measurements on the Al2O3(0001) surface the longithudinal coherence was observed as well. For both surfaces, the lattice parameters could be determined with very high accuracy and the intensity distribution was described by a very simple model. For the first time in this working group the interaction potential for the scattering of H2 molecules from a KCl(001) surface could be deviated. The observed difference in the intensity distribution in dependence of the perpendicular de Broglie wavelength for scattered atoms and molecules could be explained by applying simulations using the deviated interaction potential.

Die vorliegende Arbeit befaßt sich mit der Herstellung und Untersuchung magnetischer MnAs-Schichten auf halbleitenden GaAs-Substraten. Die einkristallinen MnAs-Schichten wurden unter Verwendung der Molekularstrahlepitaxie auf GaAs abgeschieden. Die detaillierte Darstellung des MnAs-Wachstums beschreibt den Einfluß der Herstellungsbedingungen auf die strukturelle Qualität. Eine systematische Analyse der MnAs-Oberflächenstruktur resultiert in einem Phasendiagramm der Rekonstruktionen. Die Keimbildung von MnAs während des Wachstums der ersten Monolagen wird anhand der Ergebnisse einer in-situ-Analyse diskutiert. Dabei kamen komplementär die Reflexionselektronenbeugung und die Reflexionsdifferenzspektroskopie zum Einsatz. Die strukturellen Eigenschaften der MnAs-Schichten wurden mittels Transmissionselektronenmikroskopie analysiert. Eingehende Studien der Grenzfläche zeigen zwei richtungsabhängige Mechanismen des Abbaus der Gitterfehlpassung in dem Heteroepitaxiesystem MnAs/GaAs. Die Diskussion der magnetischen Eigenschaften erfolgte sowohl auf makroskopischer als auch auf mikroskopischer Skala. Die durch Magnetometrie erhaltenen Resultate liefern wichtige Erkenntnisse zum Magnetismus dünner Schichten. Untersuchungen der magnetischen Domänen in MnAs mittels magnetischer Kraftmikroskopie zeigen das komplizierte Wechselspiel zwischen Oberflächentopographie und magnetischer Struktur. Die Abbildung der magnetischen Domänen als Funktion des angelegten magnetischen Feldes gibt Aufschluß über das Magnetisierungsverhalten auf mikroskopischer Skala. / This work investigates the growth and characterization of magnetic MnAs layers on semi-insulating GaAs substrates. The single-crystalline MnAs layers are deposited on GaAs by molecular beam epitaxt. A detailed analysis of the MnAs growth reveals the influence of the growth conditions on the structural quality of the layers. A phase diagram showing four stoichiometry dependent reconstructions is obtained by a systematic analysis of the MnAs surface structure. The nucleation of MnAs during growth of the first monolayers is examined by in-situ reflection electron diffraction and reflectance difference spectroscopy measurements. The structural properties of the MnAs layers are analyzed by transmission electron microscopy. It is found that the lattice mismatch is accommodated at the MnAs/GaAs interface by a coincidence lattice along one direction and by misfit dislocation along the perpendicular direction. The discussion of the magnetic properties covers the macroscopic as well as the microscopic scales. Magnetometry results provide important knowledge about thin film magnetism in MnAs layers. Extensive magnetic force microscopy investigations of the magnetic domains in MnAs illustrate the complicated relationship between surface topography and magnetic structure. Imaging of magnetic domains as a function of the applied magnetic field gives new insights on magnetization behavior on a microscopic scale. The MnAs phase transition at 43° C is investigated by combined X-ray diffraction and magnetization measurements. The MnAs structure changes from the ferromagnetic to the paramagnetic state, accompanied by a crystal structure change from hexagonal to orthorhombic. A detailed analysis of the phase transition provides important information concerning crystal growth and allows optimization of the fabrication conditions.