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Dissertation
Energy transfer in free-standing van der Waals heterostructures after optical excitation
(2019)
The wide range of layered van der Waals materials is interesting due to its plenty of deviating characteristics. The structure of all these materials is built from covalently joined layers, which are stacked by van der Waals forces. Aside from this structural similarity the specific characteristics spread out in a variety of electronic and optical properties. The electronic properties of layered materials vary from pure insulators to metallic conductors and can even depend on the number of layers. In the work presented ...
Dissertation
Molecular-Frame Angular Distributions of Electrons Emitted by Photoionization and Interatomic Coulombic Decay
(2020)
The continuous refinement of the experimental and theoretical methods to study the electron angular emission distributions, and particularly in a molecule frame of reference, have contributed to a keen understanding of the structure of molecules and have provided deeper insight into fundamental physical phenomena.
Revealing many details of the ionization dynamics, the molecular-frame angular distributions (MFADs) of emitted electrons have been an appealing research topic for the last two decades. Owing to the ...
Dissertation
Energy landscapes and dynamics of magnetic nanostructures: disorder, structure, and magnetic field effects
(2020)
The static and dynamic magnetic properties of two-dimensional ensembles of dipole-coupled magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) are investigated from a theoretical perspective. Particular emphasis is put on the correlations between the geometrical arrangements of the NPs, their inherent structural disorder, and the cooperative magnetic dynamics of the nanostructures as a whole. To this aim a significant number of representative two-dimensional NP ensembles with different structural geometries and degrees of disorder are ...
Dissertation
Investigation of diamond nanostructures with incorporated color centers
(2018)
Diamond is a material with excellent properties due to its structure and composition. Its crystal lattice is a perfect host of different defect centers, so-called color centers, whose properties, especially the capability of emitting single photons, can serve in quantum information technologies (QIT). As a high refractive index material only a small part of the photons emitted by these color centers in diamond can be collected. To enhance the photon collection efficiency photonic structures are necessary. They can ...
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Direct evidence for radiative charge transfer after inner-shell excitation and ionization of large clusters
(2018-01-16)
We directly observe radiative charge transfer (RCT) in Ne clusters by dispersed vacuum-ultraviolet photon detection. The doubly ionized Ne^2+ – Ne_n-1 initial states of RCT are populated after resonant 1s–3p photoexcitation or 1s photoionization of Ne_n clusters with {n} \approx 2800. These states relax further producing Ne^+ – Ne^+ – Ne_n-2 final states, and the RCT photon is emitted. Ab initio calculations assign the observed RCT signal to the Ne^2+(2p^-2 [^1D]) - Ne_n-1 initial state, while transitions from other ...
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Ions of the superheavy elements in vacuum and in solution
(1976)
The extension of the Periodic Table into the range of unknown atomic numbers of above
one hundred requires relativistic calculations. The results of the latter are used to indicate probable values for X-ray transition lines which will be useful for identification of the atomic species formed
during collision between accelerated ions and the target. If the half-lives of the isotopes are long, then the chemistry of these new species becomes an important question which is reviewed for E110, E 111
and E112.
The ...
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A clear atomic example for the surface sensitivity of penning ionization
(1990)
Using a crossed-beam apparatus with a double hemispherical electron spectrometer,
we have studied the spectrum of electrons released in thermal energy ionizing collisions of metastable
He^*(2^3S) atoms with ground state Yb(4f^14 6s^2 ^1S_0) atoms, thereby providing the first Penning electron spectrum of an atomic target with-4f-electrons. In contrast to the HeI (58.4nm) and NeI (73.6/74.4nm)
photoelectron spectra of Yb, which show mainly 4f- and 6s-electron emission in about a 5:1 ratio, the He^*(2^3S) Penning ...
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Precision laser spectroscopy of the ground state hyperfine splitting of hydrogenlike ^209 Bi^82+
(1994)
The first direct observation of a hyperfine splitting in the optical regime is reported. The wavelength of the M1 transition between the F = 4 and F = 5 hyperfine levels of the ground state of hydrogenlike ^209 Bi^82+ was measured to be \lamda_0 = 243.87(4) nm by detection of laser induced fluorescence at the heavy-ion storage ring ESR at GSI. In addition, the lifetime of the laser excited F = 5 sublevel was determined to be \tau_0 = 0.351(16) ms. The method can be applied to a number of other nuclei and should allow ...
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Relativity and screening effects in heavy-ion collisions
(1975)
Diatomic correlation diagrams are the main basis for the description of heavy-ion collisions. We have constructed the first realistic relativistic many-electron correlation diagrams based on nonrelativistic self-consistent-field, Hartree-Fock calculations of diatomic molecules plus relativistic corrections. We discuss the relativistic influences as well as the many-electron screening effects in the I-Au system with a combined charge of Z = 132 as an example.
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On the correlation between electric polarizabilities and the ionization potential of atoms
(1985)
It is found that the electric dipole polarizabilities of neutral atoms correlate very strongly with their first ionization potential within the groups of elements with the same angular momenta of the outermost electrons. As the latter values are known very accurately, this allows a very good
(<30%) prediction of various atomic polarizabilities.