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cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 8 cited

Optical characterization of dislocation free Ge and GeOI wafers

S. Kalem, I. Romandic, A. Theuwis

Optical properties of dislocations free state-of-the-art Germanium(Ge) and Germanium-oninsulator(GeOI) wafers have been characterized using Fourier transformed infrared spectroscop…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 7 cited

Transformation of germanium to fluogermanates

S. Kalem, O. Arthursson, I. Romandic

The surface of a single crystal Germanium wafer was transformed to crystals of germanium fluorides and oxides upon exposure to a vapor of HF and HNO3 chemical mixture. Structure an…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 25 cited

Controlled thinning and surface smoothening of silicon nanopillars

S Kalem, P Werner, B Nilsson +4

A convenient method has been developed to thin electron beam fabricated Silicon nanopillars under controlled surface manipulation by transforming the surface of the pillars to an o…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015

Ellipsometry studies of Si/Ge superlattices with embedded Ge dots

Seref Kalem, Orjan Arthursson, Peter Werner

In this paper, we present an analysis for treating the spectroscopic ellipsometry response of Si/Ge superlattices (SL) with embedded Ge dots. Spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) measur…

hep-ph2015★ 1 cited

Phenomenology of dark matter-nucleon effective interactions

Riccardo Catena

I compare the non-relativistic effective theory of one-body dark matter-nucleon interactions to current dark matter direct detection experiments and neutrino telescope observations…

math.NA2015★ 2 cited

Reconstruction of dielectric constants of multi-layered optical fibers using propagation constants measurements

E. M. Karchevskii, L. Beilina, A. O. Spiridonov +1

We present new method for the numerical reconstruction of the variable refractive index of multi-layered circular weakly guiding dielectric waveguides using the measurements of the…

physics.atom-ph2015★ 243 cited

Mobile quantum gravity sensor with unprecedented stability

Christian Freier, Matthias Hauth, Vladimir Schkolnik +6

Changes of surface gravity on Earth are of great interest in geodesy, earth sciences and natural resource exploration. They are indicative of Earth system's mass redistributions an…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 32 cited

Evidence for a chemically differentiated outflow in Mrk 231

J. E. Lindberg, S. Aalto, S. Muller +7

Aims: Our goal is to study the chemical composition of the outflows of active galactic nuclei and starburst galaxies. Methods: We obtained high-resolution interferometric observati…

cs.SE2015

Tester Interactivity makes a Difference in Search-Based Software Testing: A Controlled Experiment

Bogdan Marculescu, Simon Poulding, Robert Feldt +2

Context: Search-based software testing promises to provide users with the ability to generate high-quality test cases, and hence increase product quality, with a minimal increase i…

math-ph2015★ 1 cited

Symmetry reduction for central force problems

Robert I McLachlan, Klas Modin, Olivier Verdier

We given an elementary illustration of symmetry reduction for central force problems, drawing phase portraits of the reduced dynamics as the intersection of Casimir and energy leve…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 61 cited

Disk Dispersal: Theoretical Understanding and Observational Constraints

U. Gorti, R. Liseau, Zs. Sandor +1

Protoplanetary disks dissipate rapidly after the central star forms, on time-scales comparable to those inferred for planet formation. In order to allow the formation of planets, d…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 13 cited

The XXL Survey XI: ATCA 2.1 GHz continuum observations

Vernesa Smolcic, Jacinta Delhaize, Minh Huynh +16

We present 2.1 GHz imaging with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) of a 6.5 deg^2 region within the XXM-Newton XXL South field using a band of 1.1-3.1 GHz. We achieve an…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 272 cited

The XXL Survey: I. Scientific motivations - XMM-Newton observing plan - Follow-up observations and simulation programme

M. Pierre, F. Pacaud, C. Adami +89

We present the XXL Survey, the largest XMM programme totaling some 6.9 Ms to date and involving an international consortium of roughly 100 members. The XXL Survey covers two extrag…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 143 cited

The XXL Survey. II. The bright cluster sample: catalogue and luminosity function

F. Pacaud, N. Clerc, P. A. Giles +40

Context. The XXL Survey is the largest survey carried out by the XMM-Newton satellite and covers a total area of 50 square degrees distributed over two fields. It primarily aims at…

cs.DL2015★ 2 cited

The Globalization of Academic Entrepreneurship? The Recent Growth (2009-2014) in University Patenting Decomposed

Loet Leydesdorff, Henry Etzkowitz, Duncan Kushnir

The contribution of academia to US patents has become increasingly global. Following a pause, with a relatively flat rate, from 1998 to 2008, the long-term trend of university pate…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 20 cited

Ortho-to-para ratio of NH2. Herschel-HIFI observations of ortho- and para-NH2 rotational transitions towards W31C, W49N, W51 and G34.3+0.1

C. M. Persson, A. O. H. Olofsson, R. Le Gal +10

We have used the Herschel-HIFI instrument to observe both nuclear spin symmetries of amidogen (NH2) towards the high-mass star-forming regions W31C (G10.6-0.4), W49N (G43.2-0.1), W…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 75 cited

Submillimeter-HCN Diagram for an Energy Diagnostics in the Centers of Galaxies

Takuma Izumi, Kotaro Kohno, Susanne Aalto +16

Compiling data from literature and the ALMA archive, we show enhanced HCN(4-3)/HCO(4-3) and/or HCN(4-3)/CS(7-6) integrated intensity ratios in circumnuclear molecular gas aroun…

quant-ph2015★ 10 cited

Angular dependent micro-ESR characterization of a locally doped Gd3+:Al2O3 system

I. S. Wisby, S. E. de Graaf, R. Gwilliam +5

Interfacing rare-earth doped crystals with superconducting circuit architectures provides an attractive platform for quantum memory and transducer devices. Here we present the deta…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 33 cited

A detailed view of the gas shell around R Sculptoris with ALMA

M. Maercker, W. H. T. Vlemmings, M. Brunner +6

Thermal pulses are fundamental to the chemical evolution of AGB stars and their circumstellar envelopes. A further consequence of thermal pulses is the formation of detached shells…

cond-mat.supr-con2015★ 12 cited

Magnetic proximity effect at interface between a cuprate superconductor and an oxide spin valve

G. A. Ovsyannikov, V. V. Demidov, Yu. N. Khaydukov +4

Heterostructures consisting of a cuprate superconductor YBa2Cu3O7x and a ruthenate/manganite (SrRuO3/La0.7Sr0.3MnO3) spin valve have been studied by SQUID magnetometry, ferromagnet…

math.NA2015★ 17 cited

Optimization approach for the simultaneous reconstruction of the dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability functions from limited observations

Larisa Beilina, Michel Cristofol, Kati Niinimäki

We consider the inverse problem of the simultaneous reconstruction of the dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability functions of the Maxwell's system in 3D with limited bou…

math.ST2015★ 9 cited

Pairwise Markov properties for regression graphs

Kayvan Sadeghi, Nanny Wermuth

With a sequence of regressions, one may generate joint probability distributions. One starts with a joint, marginal distribution of context variables having possibly a concentratio…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 7 cited

Particle number scaling for diffusion-induced dissipation in graphene and carbon nanotube nanomechanical resonators

Christin Rhén, Andreas Isacsson

When a contaminant diffuses on the surface of a nanomechanical resonator, the motions of the two become correlated. Despite being a high-order effect in the resonator-particle coup…

physics.plasm-ph2015★ 11 cited

Vlasov modelling of laser-driven collisionless shock acceleration of protons

B. Svedung Wettervik, T. C. DuBois, T. Fülöp

Ion acceleration due to the interaction between a short high-intensity laser pulse and a moderately overdense plasma target is studied using Eulerian Vlasov-Maxwell simulations. Th…