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Contactless generation of cavitation in high temperature liquid metals and its impact on particle dispersion in solidified iron and steel samples

Sarma, M.; Grants, I.; Herrmannsdörfer, T.; Gerbeth, G.

A recently developed method for the contactless magnetic generation of cavitation is demonstrated for high-melting-point metals. The approach is based on the floating-zone technique, which is truly contactless and crucible-free as it uses electromagnetic forces. Using this method, ultra-high-temperature ceramic particles, such as TiN, TiB₂ and TiC, are admixed in liquid iron and 316L steel. The dispersion and particle refinement caused by cavitation treatment during melting and solidification are investigated. Magnetic fields up to 8 T that correspond to pressure oscillation amplitude of 0.83 MPa are used. The signal emitted by the collapsing bubbles is captured and visualized for iron melts. Samples with a higher number of cavitation nuclei exhibit a more stable cavitation response. Improved reinforcement refinement is demonstrated for increasing cavitation intensity – the size of precipitates is evidently reduced due to the cavitation
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Spin dynamics in low-D spin systems: high-field ESR

Zvyagin, S.

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  • Invited lecture (Conferences) (Online presentation)
    Workshop on Neutrons and Complementary Techniques for Quantum Materials, 18.-21.08.2020, Oak Ridge, USA

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Publ.-Id: 32073


Shaken and stirred: When Bond meets Suess-de Vries and Gnevyshev-Ohl

Stefani, F.; Stepanov, R.; Weier, T.

We argue that the most prominent temporal features of the solar dynamo, in particular the Hale cycle, the Suess de Vries cycle (associated with variations of the Gnevyshev-Ohl rule), Gleissberg-type cycles, and grand minima can be self-consistently explained by double synchronization with the 11.07-years periodic tidal forcing of the Venus-Earth-Jupiter system and the (mainly) 19.86-years periodic motion of the Sun around the barycenter of the solar system. In our numerical simulation, grand minima, and clusters thereof, emerge as intermittent and non periodic events on millennial time scales, very similar to the series of Bond events which were observed throughout the Holocene and the last glacial period. If confirmed, such an intermittent transition to chaos would prevent any long-term prediction of solar activity, notwithstanding the fact that the shorter-term Hale and Suess-de Vries cycles are clocked by planetary motion.

Keywords: solar cycle

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Publ.-Id: 32072


Schwabe, Gleissberg, Suess-de Vries: Towards a consistent model of planetary synchronization of solar cycles

Stefani, F.; Giesecke, A.; Seilmayer, M.; Stepanov, R.; Weier, T.

Aiming at a consistent planetary synchronization model of both short-term and long-term solar cycles, we start with an analysis of Schove’s historical data of cycle maxima. Their deviations (residuals) from the average cycle duration of 11.07 years show a high degree of regularity, comprising a dominant 200 year period (Suess-de Vries cycle), and a few periods around 100 years (Gleissberg cycle). Encouraged by their robustness, we support previous forecasts of an upcoming grand minimum in the 21st century. To explain the long-term cycles, we enhance our tidally synchronized solar dynamo model by a modulation of the field storage capacity of the tachocline with the orbital angular momentum of the Sun, which is dominated by the 19.86-year periodicity of the Jupiter–Saturn synodes. This modulation of the 22.14-year Hale cycle leads to a 193-year beat period of dynamo activity which is indeed close to the Suess-de Vries cycle. For stronger dynamo modulation, the model produces additional peaks at typical Gleissberg frequencies, which seem to be explainable by the non-linearities of the basic beat process, leading to a bi-modality of the Schwabe cycle. However, a complementary role of beat periods between the Schwabe cycle and the Jupiter–Uranus/Neptune synodic cycles cannot be completely excluded.

Keywords: solar cycle

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Evolution of a strong electrovortex flow in a cylindrical cell

Kolesnichenko, I.; Frick, P.; Eltishchev, V.; Mandrykin, S.; Stefani, F.

The mechanism of poloidal flow suppression in an electrovortex flow (EVF) is verified in a liquid metal experiment and supported by numerical simulations. Beyond a certain threshold of azimuthal forcing, a strong poloidal EVF flow develops only transiently, before the centrifugal forces of the slowly generated swirl compensate the EVF-driving forces. This result shows that EVFs can become of particular importance in large-scale liquid metal batteries, especially during the switch-on regime when the transient poloidal flows can be up to two orders of magnitude stronger than those expected in the saturated regime.

Keywords: electrovortex flow

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Publ.-Id: 32070


Overview of mico- and millifluidic prototyping and sensing approaches

Schütt, J.; Makarov, D.

Kick-Off Präsentation des HZDRs im Zuge des Projektstarts. Angesprochene Themengebiete umfassen die aktuellen und zukünftigen Arbeitsgebiete der Arbeitsgruppe "Fluid Sensorics".

Keywords: Fluidic Sensorics; SiNW FETs; Nano-capacitors; Planar Hall Effect Sensors

  • Lecture (others) (Online presentation)
    Initial Scientific Meeting, 12.11.2020, Dresden, Deutschland

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Publ.-Id: 32069


Using Diffuse Scattering to Observe X-Ray-Driven Nonthermal Melting

Hartley, N.; Grenzer, J.; Huang, L.; Inubushi, Y.; Kamimura, N.; Katagiri, K.; Kodama, R.; Kon, A.; Lu, W.; Makita, M.; Matsuoka, T.; Nakajima, S.; Ozaki, N.; Pikuz, T.; Rode, A. V.; Sagae, D.; Schuster, A.; Tono, K.; Voigt, K.; Vorberger, J.; Yabuuchi, T.; McBride, E. E.; Kraus, D.

We present results from the SPring-8 Angstrom Compact free electron LAser facility, where we used a high intensity (∼10^20 W/cm2) x-ray pump x-ray probe scheme to observe changes in the ionic structure of silicon induced by x-ray heating of the electrons. By avoiding Laue spots in the scattering signal from a single crystalline sample, we observe a rapid rise in diffuse scattering and a transition to a disordered, liquidlike state with a structure significantly different from liquid silicon. The disordering occurs within 100 fs of irradiation, a timescale that agrees well with first principles simulations, and is faster than that predicted by purely inertial behavior, suggesting that both the phase change and disordered state reached are dominated by Coulomb forces. This method is capable of observing liquid scattering without masking
signal from the ambient solid, allowing the liquid structure to be measured throughout and beyond the phase change.

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Publ.-Id: 32068


Design and performance characterisation of the HAPG von Hámos Spectrometer at the High Energy Density Instrument of the European XFEL

Preston, T. R.; Göde, S.; Schwinkendorf, J.-P.; Appel, K.; Brambrink, E.; Cerantola, V.; Höppner, H.; Makita, M.; Pelka, A.; Prescher, C.; Sukharnikov, K.; Schmidt, A.; Thorpe, I.; Toncian, T.; Amouretti, A.; Chekrygina, D.; Falcone, R. W.; Falk, K.; Fletcher, L. B.; Galtier, E.; Harmand, M.; Hartley, N.; Hau-Riege, S. P.; Heimann, P.; Huang, L.; Humphries, O. S.; Karnbach, O.; Kraus, D.; Lee, H. J.; Nagler, B.; Ren, S.; Schuster, A.; Smid, M.; Voigt, K.; Zhang, M.; Zastrau, U.

The von Hámos spectrometer setup at the HED instrument of the European XFEL is described in detail. The spectrometer is designed to be operated primarily between 5 and 15 keV to complement the operating photon energy range of the HED instrument. Four Highly Annealed Pyrolitic Graphite (HAPG) crystals are characterised with thicknesses of 40 μm or 100 μm and radius-of-curvature 50 mm or 80 mm, in conjunction with either an ePix100 or Jungfrau detector. The achieved resolution with the 50 mm crystals, operated between 6.5 and 9 keV, matches that reported previously: ~8 eV for a thickness of 40 μm, whereas, with an 80 mm crystal of thickness 40 μm, the resolution exceeds that expected. Namely, a resolution of 2 eV is demonstrated between 5–6 keV implying a resolving power of 2800. Therefore, we posit that flatter HAPG crystals, with their high reflectivity and improved resolving power, are a powerful tool for hard x-ray scattering and emission experiments allowing unprecedented measurements of collective scattering in a single shot.

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Publ.-Id: 32067


A spectral library for laser-induced fluorescence analysis as a tool for rare earth element identification

Fuchs, M.; Beyer, J.; Lorenz, S.; Sharma, S.; Renno, A.; Heitmann, J.; Gloaguen, R.

With the recurring interest on rare-earth elements (REE), laser-induced fluorescence (LiF) may provide a powerful tool for their rapid and accurate identification at different stages along their value chain. Applications to natural materials such as rocks could complement the spectroscopy-based toolkit for innovative, non-invasive exploration technologies. However, the diagnostic assignment of detected emission lines to individual REE remains challenging, because of the complex composition of natural rocks in which they can be found. The resulting mixed spectra and the large amount of data generated demand for automated approaches of data evaluation, especially in mapping applications such as drill core scanning. LiF reference data provide the solution for robust REE identification, yet they usually remain in the form of tables of published emission lines. We show that a complete reference spectra library could open manifold options for innovative automated analysis.

We present a library of high-resolution LiF reference spectra using the Smithsonian rare-earth phosphate standards for electron microprobe analysis.We employ three standard laser wavelengths (325 nm, 442 nm, 532 nm) to record representative spectra in the UV-visible to near-infrared spectral range (340–1080 nm). Excitation at all three laser wavelengths yielded characteristic spectra with distinct REE-related emission lines for EuPO4, TbPO4, DyPO4 and YbPO4. In the other samples, the high-energy excitation at 325 nm caused unspecific, broadband defect emissions. Here, lower energy laser excitation showed successful for suppressing non-REE-related emission. At 442 nm excitation, REE-reference spectra depict the diagnostic emission lines of PrPO4, SmPO4 and ErPO4. For NdPO4 and HoPO4 most efficient excitation was achieved with 532 nm. Our results emphasise on the possibility of selective REE excitation by changing the excitation wavelength according to the suitable conditions for individual REEs. Our reference spectra provide a database for transparent and reproducible evaluation of REE-bearing rocks. The LiF spectral library is available at https://zenodo.org/ and the registered DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4054606 (Fuchs et al., 2020). It gives access to traceable data for manifold further studies on comparison of emission line positions, emission line intensity ratios and splitting into emission line sub-levels or can be used as reference or training data for automated approaches of component assignment.

Keywords: Laser-induced fluorescence; rare earth elements; exploration; spectral library

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Drill-core mineral abundance estimation using hyperspectral and high-resolution mineralogical data

Tusa, L.; Khodadadzadeh, M.; Contreras Acosta, I. C.; Rafiezadeh Shahi, K.; Fuchs, M.; Gloaguen, R.; Gutzmer, J.

Due to the extensive drilling performed every year in exploration campaigns for the discovery and evaluation of ore deposits, drill-core mapping is becoming an essential step. While valuable mineralogical information is extracted during core logging by on-site geologists, the process is time consuming and dependent on the observer and individual background. Hyperspectral short-wave infrared (SWIR) data is used in the mining industry as a tool to complement traditional logging techniques and to provide a rapid and non-invasive analytical method for mineralogical characterization. Additionally, Scanning Electron Microscopy-based image analyses using a Mineral Liberation Analyser (SEM-MLA) provide exhaustive high-resolution mineralogical maps, but can only be performed on small areas of the drill-cores. We propose to use machine learning algorithms to combine the two data types and upscale the quantitative SEM-MLA mineralogical data to drill-core scale. This way, quasi-quantitative maps over entire drill-core samples are obtained. Our upscaling approach increases result transparency and reproducibility by employing physical-based data acquisition (hyperspectral imaging) combined with mathematical models (machine learning). The procedure is tested on 5 drill-core samples with varying training data using random forests, support vector machines and neural network regression models. The obtained mineral abundance maps are further used for the extraction of mineralogical parameters such as mineral association.

Keywords: hyperspectral imaging; drill-core; SWIR; mineral abundance mapping; mineral association; machine learning

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Object Detection Routine for Material Streams Combining RGB and Hyperspectral Reflectance Data Based on Guided Object Localization

Sudharshan, V.; Seidel, P.; Ghamisi, P.; Lorenz, S.; Fuchs, M.; Shaik Fareedh, J.; Neubert, P.; Schubert, S.; Gloaguen, R.

Electronic waste is the fastest growing type of scrap globally and is an important challenge due to its heterogeneity, intrinsic toxicity and potential environmental impact. With an objective of obtaining information on the composition of printed circuit boards (PCBs) through non-invasive analysis to aid in recycling and recovery of precious waste, the goal of this paper is to propose a scheme towards the fusion of RGB and hyperspectral data in object detection. State-of-art detectors come with their own set of challenges which make them inapplicable to PCB recycling. We introduce a method which promises to achieve object detection based on multi-sensor data by utilizing the hyperspectral data to localize components and compare the results to a conventional single-sensor (RGB) based approach.

Keywords: Object detection; Hyperspectral imaging; Recycling; Sensors; Spatial resolution; Training

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Sediment Transit Time and Floodplain Storage Dynamics in Alluvial Rivers Revealed by Meteoric 10Be

Repasch, M.; Wittmann, H.; Scheingross, J. S.; Sachse, D.; Szupiany, R.; Orfeo, O.; Fuchs, M.; Hovius, N.

Quantifying the time scales of sediment transport and storage through river systems is fundamental for understanding weathering processes, biogeochemical cycling, and improving watershed management, but measuring sediment transit time is challenging. Here we provide the first systematic test of measuring cosmogenic meteoric Beryllium‐10 (10Bem) in the sediment load of a large alluvial river to quantify sediment transit times. We take advantage of a natural experiment in the Rio Bermejo, a lowland alluvial river traversing the east Andean foreland basin in northern Argentina. This river has no tributaries along its trunk channel for nearly 1,300 km downstream from the mountain front. We sampled suspended sediment depth profiles along the channel and measured the concentrations of 10Bem in the chemically extracted grain coatings. We calculated depth‐integrated 10Bem concentrations using sediment flux data and found that 10Bem concentrations increase 230% from upstream to downstream, indicating a mean total sediment transit time of 8.4 ± 2.2 kyr. Bulk sediment budget‐based estimates of channel belt and fan storage times suggest that the 10Bem tracer records mixing of old and young sediment reservoirs. On a reach scale, 10Bem transit times are shorter where the channel is braided and superelevated above the floodplain, and longer where the channel is incised and meandering, suggesting that transit time is controlled by channel morphodynamics. This is the first systematic application of 10Bem as a sediment transit time tracer and highlights the method's potential for inferring sediment routing and storage dynamics in large river systems.

Keywords: meteoric 10Be; sediment transit time; river sediment; floodplains; sediment routing

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alpaka-group/alpaka: alpaka 0.5.0: C++14

Worpitz, B.; Matthes, A.; Zenker, E.; Hübl, A.; Widera, R.; Bastrakov, S.; Ehrig, S.; Kelling, J.; Krude, J.; Stephan, J.; Werner, M.

The alpaka library is a header-only C++14 abstraction library for accelerator development.
The release 0.5.0 is providing support for AMD HIP and dropped support for C++11, CUDA 8, gcc 4.9 and boost < 1.65.1.

Keywords: CUDA; HPC; alpaka; OpenMP; HIP; C++; GPU; heterogeneous computing; performance portability

  • Software in external data repository
    Publication year 2020
    Programming language: C++
    System requirements: OS: Linux, Windows, or OSX requirements: C++14 compiler, boost 1.65.1+
    License: MPL-2.0
    Hosted on GitHub: Link to location
    DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3909421

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Publ.-Id: 32062


αvβ3-Specific Gold Nanoparticles for Fluorescence Imaging of Tumor Angiogenesis

Pretze, M.; von Kiedrowski, V.; Runge, R.; Freudenberg, R.; Hübner, R.; Davarci, G.; Schirrmacher, R.; Wängler, C.; Wängler, B.

This paper reports on the development of tumor-specific gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) as theranostic tools intended for target accumulation and the detection of tumor angiogenesis via optical imaging (OI) before therapy is performed, being initiated via an external X-ray irradiation source. The AuNPs were decorated with a near-infrared dye, and RGD peptides as the tumor targeting vector for αvβ3-integrin, which is overexpressed in tissue with high tumor angiogenesis. The AuNPs were evaluated in an optical imaging setting in vitro and in vivo exhibiting favorable diagnostic properties with regards to tumor cell accumulation, biodistribution, and clearance. Furthermore, the therapeutic properties of the AuNPs were evaluated in vitro on pUC19 DNA and on A431 cells concerning acute and long-term toxicity, indicating that these AuNPs could be useful as radiosensitizers in therapeutic concepts in the future.

Keywords: gold nanoparticle; optical imaging; radiosensitizer; tumor angiogenesis; RGD peptide

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Publ.-Id: 32061


Data for "Gold implanted germanium photoswitch for cavity dumping of a free-electron laser"

Rana, R.; Klopf, J. M.; Ciano, C.; Singh, A.; Winnerl, S.; Schneider, H.; Helm, M.; Pashkin, O.

Measurements were carried out in ELBE 113 c lab. Free electron laser (FEL) pulses with a wavelength ranging from 6 to 90 µm from the FELBE laser operating at its maximum power level were used. Photoswitching of Ge and Ge:Au samples were carried out using a 1 kHz Ti:Sapphire Amplifier system at 800 nm. The data used in the paper is arranged in subfolders 1, 2, and 3. The description is as follows
1. Scheme of the experiment (used in Figure 1 and shows the idea of the experiment)
2. FEL pulse picking traces from photoswitched Ge and Ge: Au samples were recorded using an oscilloscope with 1 GHz bandwidth (Keysight InfiniiVision DSOX4104A).
Relevance: This data is used in Figures 2 and 3. This measurement showed the photoswitching attributes in both reflection and transmission geometry for the Ge and Ge: Au samples and suitability of Ge:Au sample for efficient cavity dumping.
3. Photoinduced reflectivity measurements for the Ge: Au sample as a function of the time delay between FEL pulses and the pulses from a kHz amplifier system is recorded. The fluence required to couple out FEL wavelengths with an efficiency of at least 50 % reflectivity and Matlab scripts used for simulation of photoinduced reflectivity for the same FEL wavelengths.
Relevance: This data is used in Figure 4 and shows the fluence requirements of the Ge:Au photoswitch and also a faster recovery time of sub-ns, much shorter than the FEL pulsing period of 77ns.

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A discussion of two-phase flow in the gas channel and porous transport layer regions of polymer electrolyte cells

Steven, S. B.; Andersson, M.; Weber, N.; Marschall, H.; Lehnert, W.

This talk is about an ongoing programme of research on detailed performance calculations for two-phase liquid-gas flow in the gas channel and porous transport layer, as found, for example, on the cathode side of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell. The porous geometry is typically obtained by digital reconstruction from nano-computer tomography images. The domain may then tessellated with a computational mesh, whereupon the equations of mass and momentum are solved ,e.g., by means of a volume-of-fluid method. Liquid water is produced at the same time as gaseous oxygen is consumed by electrochemical reduction at the electrode surface, which is to be considered a boundary condition in the present problem. The problem was originally formulated in ref. [1]. Liquid-gas counter flow in the porous transport layer results in liquid drops being entrained in co-flow in the gas channels and convected downstream by the gas. The flow in the channels and adjacent parts of the porous transport layer is transient-periodic, but with some significant randomness, associated with the interactions between the different fluid streams percolating into the channel from the pores.

In this presentation, the complex micro-scale flow field is described in some detail. Consideration is also given as to the mechanisms for construction of macro-homogeneous properties such as absolute and relative permeability, capillary pressure vs. saturation for porous media, as well as macroscopic drag laws for two-phase channel flows based on calculations on a micro-scale. These are required for macro-scale homogeneous models, as typically employed at a cell-level. A discussion is also given of the impact of salient physical properties such as surface tension, and how these may be manipulated to improve future performance for electrochemical conversion devices such as fuel cells and electrolysers.

  • Open Access Logo Lecture (Conference)
    I Meeting on Energy Conversion and Storage Electrochemical Devices, 28.-29.01.2021, Madrid, Spanien

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Publ.-Id: 32058


Theory of three-magnon interaction in a vortex-state magnetic nanodot

Verba, R.; Körber, L.; Schultheiß, K.; Schultheiß, H.; Tiberkevich, V.; Slavin, A.

This repository contains the data used to determine the numerical threshold fields for three-magnon scattering in a vortex-state disk used in our paper "Theory of three-magnon interaction in a vortex-state magnetic nanodot" published in Physical Review B. 

For different excitation frequencies, we provide:

  • mumax3 simulation file and table containing the time-dependent magnetic energy for simulations where the microwave-field power is decreased over time
  • mumax3 file and resulting power spectrum for a continuous-wave excitation at a given microwave-field power above threshold
  • spatial mode profiles (magnitude/amplitude) to identify the modes taking part in the three-magnon splitting channel

Keywords: spin wave; theory; nonlinear; vortex; micromagnetic simulation

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The Spatial Association of Accessory Minerals with Biotite in Granitic Rocks

Clarke, B. D.; Renno, A.; Hamilton, D. C.; Gilbricht, S.; Bachmann, K.

We use mineral liberation analysis (MLA) to quantify the spatial association of 15118 grains of accessory apatite, monazite, xenotime, and zircon with essential biotite, and clustered with themselves, in a peraluminous biotite granodiorite from the South Mountain Batholith in Nova Scotia. A random distribution of accessory minerals demands that the proportion of accessory minerals in contact with biotite is identical to the proportion of biotite in the rock, and the binary touching factor (percentage of accessory mineral touching biotite divided by modal proportion of biotite) would be ~1.00. Instead, the mean binary touching factors for the four accessory minerals in relation to biotite are: apatite (5.06 for 11168 grains), monazite (4.68 for 857 grains), xenotime (4.36 for 217 grains), and zircon (5.05 for 2876 grains). Shared perimeter factors give similar values. Monazite and zircon have approximately log-normal grain-size distributions, but apatite is strongly skewed toward larger grain sizes, and xenotime is skewed toward smaller grain sizes. Accessory mineral grains that straddle biotite grain boundaries are larger than completely locked, or completely liberated, accessory grains. Only apatite-monazite clusters are significantly more abundant than expected for random distribution. The high, and statistically significant, binary touching factors and shared perimeter factors suggest a strong physical or chemical control on their spatial association. We evaluate random collisions in magma (synneusis), heterogeneous nucleation processes, induced nucleation in passively enriched boundary layers, and induced nucleation in actively enriched boundary layers to explain the significant touching factors. All processes operate during the crystallization history of the magma, but induced nucleation in passively and actively enriched boundary layers are most likely to explain the strong spatial association of phosphate accessories and zircon with biotite. In addition, at least some of the apatite and zircon may also enter the granitic magma as inclusions in grains of Ostwald-ripened xenocrystic biotite.

Keywords: accessory minerals; biotite; spatial association; boundary layer; synneusis; heterogeneous nucleation

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Spin-transfer dynamics in MgO-based magnetic tunnel junctions with an out-of-plane magnetized free layer and an in-plane polarizer

Kowalska, E.; Sluka, V.; Kakay, A.; Fowley, C.; Lindner, J.; Fassbender, J.; Deac, A. M.

Here, we present an analytical and numerical model describing the magnetization dynamics in MgO-based spin-torque nano-oscillators with an in-plane magnetized polarizer and an out-of-plane free layer. We introduce the spin-transfer torque asymmetry by considering the cosine angular dependence of the magnetoresistance between the two magnetic layers in the stack. For the analytical solution, dynamics are determined by assuming a circular precession trajectory around the direction perpendicular to the plane, as set by the effective field, and calculating the energy integral over a single precession period. In a more realistic approach, we include the bias dependence of the tunnel magnetoresistance, which is assumed empirically to be a piecewise linear function of the applied voltage. The dynamical states are found by solving the stability condition for the Jacobian matrix for out-of-plane static states. We find that the bias dependence of the tunnel magnetoresistance, which is an inseparable effect in every tunnel junction, exhibits drastic impact on the spin-torque nano-oscillator phase diagram, mainly by increasing the critical current for dynamics and quenching the oscillations at high currents. The results are in good agreement with our experimental data published elsewhere.

Keywords: spin-torque nano-oscillator (STNO); MgO-based magnetic tunnel junctions; tunnel magnetoresistance

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Multi-Feature Treatment Verification in Particle Therapy

Kögler, T.; Alagoz, E.; Beyer, R.; Hammer, S.; Hysing, L. B.; Lutz, B.; Meric, I.; Permatasari, F.; Pettersen, H. E. S.; Römer, K.; Schellhammer, S.; Skjerdal, K.; Turko, J. A. B.; Wagner, A.; Weinberger, D.; Werner, R.-D.; Ytre-Hauge, K.; Pausch, G.

Particle therapy constitutes a promising and rapidly developing method in modern cancer treatment. In order to exploit its full potential, however, it requires detailed dose verification.
Although the applicability of in-beam positron emission tomography and prompt gamma rays has already been demonstrated in patients, range verification is not yet part of the clinical routine in particle therapy. This is due to not only the methodological limitations of previous systems, but also to commercial, clinical and physical boundary conditions.
In pencil beam scanning, the state-of-the-art treatment method in particle therapy, the number of secondary particles (essentially positrons, prompt gamma rays and fast neutrons) available per spot (Δt = 10 ms to 100 ms) is limited. This leads to statistical accuracy limits for verification systems exploiting these secondary particles as range probes. The development of a clinically useable treatment verification system requires gathering as much information about the local dose, as possible.
The instantaneous fluence rate of prompt gamma rays reaching 5×10⁶ cm‾²s‾¹ to 10⁸ cm‾²s‾¹ challenges modern data acquisitions connected to monolithic inorganic scintillators with typical sizes used in present verification systems. In order to reduce the detector load, and also with regard to the ever higher intensities of next generation medical accelerators, future systems have to be more granular.
Multi-Feature Treatment Verification combines and extends established methods (prompt gamma-ray imaging, spectroscopy, timing, etc.) in order to achieve higher reliability and performance. This idea was taken up by the NOVO project and expanded by a multi-particle approach. The NOVO (i.e. N eutron and gamma ray imaging with quasi-monolithic organic detector arrays – a novel, holistic approach to real-time range assessment-based treatment verification in particle therapy) consortium is a large collaboration of medical, nuclear and detector physicists, nuclear engineers, and mathematicians, which aim to develop a holistic realtime treatment verification system in particle therapy.
Elements of a potential multi-feature/multi-particle treatment verification multi-channel system were characterized in a double time-of-flight experiment at the pulsed photo-neutron source nELBE (neutrons @ Electron Linac for beams with high Brilliance and low Emittance). The essential properties (time resolution, light yield, detection efficiency and pulse shape discrimination) of an EJ-276 plastic scintillator were determined. The very first experimental results show that the time resolution (ΔT < 400 ns) of a 20 × 20 × 200 mm³
EJ-276 plastic scintillator with double-sided readout will reach the high demands of such a proposed range verification system. However, the determined quality of the pulse-shape discrimination, the energy resolution and the quite high neutron detection threshold of above 200 keV show that the light yield of this type of scintillator is not high enough to be used in a multi-feature-based treatment verification system. Particle transport calculations with MCNP6 and GEANT4 were performed to confirm the experimental results of a single detector element. Furthermore, they also show a promising measurement accuracy of a multi-channel overall system.

Keywords: particle therapy; treatment verification; in-vivo range assessment; NOVO project

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    The 7th International Conference on Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation Measurement Methods and their Applications, 21.-25.06.2021, Praha, Česká republika

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A Roadmap for 3D Metal Aerogels: Materials Design and Application Attempts

Jiang, X.; Du, R.; Hübner, R.; Hu, Y.; Eychmüller, A.

Armed with merits of the metals (e.g., electrical conductivity, catalytic activity, and plasmonic properties) and aerogels (e.g., monolithic structure, porous network, and large specific surface area), metal aerogels (MAs) have stood out as a new class of porous materials in the last decade. With unparalleled potential in electrocatalysis, plasmonics, and sensing, they are envisaged to revolutionize the energy- and detection-related application fields. However, MA development is severely retarded by the lack of a sufficient material basis. Suffering from the ambiguous understanding of formation mechanisms, big challenges remain for tailoring MAs for task-specific applications. By surveying state-of-the-art developments, this review strives to summarize design principles and arouse interest in broad scientific communities. Moreover, critical challenges and opportunities are highlighted to provide a research roadmap for this young yet promising field.

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Multi-particle detection and imaging with quasi-monolithic organic detector arrays for treatment verification in particle therapy

Alagoz, E.; Hammer, S.; Hysing, L. B.; Kögler, T.; Pausch, G.; Pettersen, H. E. S.; Skjerdal, K.; Ytre-Hauge, K.; Meric, I.

Particle therapy is a modality for treating cancer using ionizing radiation from, e.g., protons or carbon ions. A growing number of patients worldwide receive particle therapy as a part of their cancer treatment due to its dosimetric advantages over the more conventional external beam radiotherapy using photons. The finite range of particles in tissue results in sparing of healthy tissue surrounding the tumour and thereby a reduced risk of adverse effects compared to conventional treatment. This opens possibilities for a more intensified treatment by dose escalation to the tumour and thereby an increased probability for controlling the disease. However, charged particles, when used for external beam radiotherapy, are much less forgiving than photons in case of treatment deviations. Treatment deviations may be caused by (1) sensitivity of charged particles to anatomical or density changes along their radiological path in the patient, e.g., due to organ motion or tumour shrinkage and (2) uncertainties associated with the estimation of the exact position of the Bragg-peak
(maximum dose deposition) in tissue, e.g., due to uncertainties in the estimation of stopping power ratios. Collectively, these are referred to as “range uncertainties”. The most important consequence of range uncertainties is that the tissue sparing potential of charged particles cannot be fully exploited. Therefore, there is an urgent need for reliable and robust treatment verification systems that can identify potential treatment deviations in real-time.

Despite recent advances in state-of-the-art prompt gamma-ray imaging, spectroscopy and timing systems as well as in-beam and offline PET imaging systems, the development of treatment verification systems still lags and as such, there is no system yet in wide routine clinical use. Common to all existing solutions is the fact that they rely on a single feature of a single particle species and will therefore suffer from limited counting statistics. This is an important limiting factor in applying state-of-the-art systems in a treatment verification system.
Recently, a collaboration of detector, nuclear and medical physicists, nuclear engineers and mathematicians initiated the NOVO (Neutron and gamma-ray imaging with quasi-monolithic organic detector arrays – a novel, holistic approach to real-time range assessment-based treatment verification in particle therapy) project. The aim of the NOVO project is to develop a sophisticated quasi-monolithic organic detector array (QuDA) that will combine detection and imaging of secondary fast neutrons and prompt gamma-rays produced in nuclear interactions of incident particles with tissue, the profiles of which show a strong correlation with the incident particle beam range. In addition to imaging spatial profiles of secondary fast neutrons and prompt gammarays,
the QuDA will be used to acquire information on additional features of each particle species, such as timing, energy and intensity, that can provide supplementary information on the range of particle beams in tissue, thus representing a major shift from single-feature, single-particle systems to a multi-feature, multiparticle system.
In this contribution we will report on first estimates of the imaging properties of a potential QuDA design, based on Monte Carlo radiation transport models with MCNP6.2, Geant4 and GATE, considering fast neutrons and prompt gamma-rays for various, realistic combinations of timing, energy and position resolution of the individual sensing elements. Furthermore, we will report on the expected detection efficiencies and the resulting range monitoring precision for proton beams with clinically relevant energies and intensities incident on homogeneous polymethyl methacrylate phantoms. The preliminary results demonstrate the potential to obtain a range monitoring precision of approximately 1 mm down to proton beam intensities of about 1 – 2 x
10⁷ [protons/pencil beam] when fast neutron and prompt gamma-ray data are combined.

Keywords: proton therapy; treatment verification; range assesment; organic detector arrays

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Where2Test: Identifying optimal spatiotemporal testing policies for mitigating the shortage of SARS-CoV-2 testing capacity

Calabrese, J.

A poster giving an overview of the Where2Test project and its core goals and methods.

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    Visit of the Polish Delegation to CASUS, 29.09.2020, CASUS, Germany

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Where2Test: Spatiotemporal, multifactor optimization of COVID-19 testing strategies

Calabrese, J.; Bussmann, M.

We give an overview of the Where2Test project, focusing on the general approach and particular applications for machine learning.

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    Artificial Intelligence for a better living: medicine, science-business, 30.09.2020, Wroclaw, Poland

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Magnetic Field Assisted Electrodeposition of Metal on Conically Structured Electrodes

Huang, M.; Eckert, K.; Mutschke, G.

Conical structures towards nanometer length scales are attractive for numerous applications including super-hydrophobic and electrocatalytic materials. Among the various methods of synthesizing arrays of micro- and nano-cones, electrochemical deposition techniques have been widely applied. We aim at enhancing the conical growth during deposition by applying an external magnetic field. Most of the magnetic field effects can be attributed to the Lorentz force and the magnetic gradient force [1]. If the magnetic field imposed on the electrochemical cell is well designed, the magnetic forces can generate an electrolyte flow which brings fresh electrolyte towards the tip of a cone, so that the local mass transfer would be enhanced and the conical growth would be supported.

We first performed analytical and numerical studies of electrodeposition on diamagnetic (Cu) and ferromagnetic (Fe) cones of mm size under the influence of a homogeneous vertical magnetic field. The beneficial structuring effects of the Lorentz force has already been shown for the Cu cone case [2]. The magnetization of the Fe cones causes additionally a strong magnetic gradient force near the cone tips and gives rise to a flow that can bring enriched electrolyte to the conical cathode. As the cathodes are placed at the bottom of the electrochemical cell, solutal buoyancy tends to bring upwards lighter electrolyte from the conical cathode and thus counteract the downward flow caused by the magnetic forces. Our results show that for the Cu cones, the Lorentz force becomes smaller than the buoyancy force after the first few seconds of the deposition, while the magnetic gradient force in case of the Fe cones keeps surpassing the buoyancy during the deposition.

Next, scaling studies on cones of sizes ranging from millimeter to micrometer allow to deliver insights into the magnetic field assisted electrodeposition towards micro- and nano-cones. As the cone size shrinks, the geometrical inhomogeneity decreases, and the current density gets more uniformly distributed on the cone, which is making the conical growth more difficult. Furthermore, the beneficial flow forced by the magnetic field near smaller cones suffers from higher wall friction. But this can be partially compensated by the larger magnetic gradients existing at smaller Fe cones, and the flow caused by the magnetic gradient force was found to decrease more slowly than the flow caused by other forces with the decreasing cone size. Such scaling behavior of the flow velocity corresponds well with a theoretical analysis of the Navier-Stokes equation. For a Fe cone with a radius of 10 micron under study here, the magnetic gradient force generates a beneficial downward flow with a velocity of about 5 micron per second. But in general the structuring effects during the deposition is much weaker than at larger length scales.

This work shows the potential of using the magnetic gradient force for growing ferromagnetic conical structures during electrodeposition. Optimization possibilities for conical growth at smaller scales by e.g. enhancing the cell current, applying stronger magnetic fields and pulsed electrodeposition will also be discussed.

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How range residency and long-range perception change encounter rates

Martinez-Garcia, R.; Fleming, C. H.; Seppelt, R.; Fagan, W. F.; Calabrese, J.

Encounter rates link movement strategies to intra- and inter-specific interactions, and therefore translate individual movement behavior into higher-level ecological processes. Indeed, a large body of interacting population theory rests on the law of mass action, which can be derived from assumptions of Brownian motion in an enclosed container with exclusively local perception. These assumptions imply completely uniform space use, individual home ranges equivalent to the population range, and encounter dependent on movement paths actually crossing. Mounting empirical evidence, however, suggests that animals use space non-uniformly, occupy home ranges substantially smaller than the population range, and are of- ten capable of nonlocal perception. Here, we explore how these empirically supported behaviors change pairwise encounter rates. Specifically, we derive novel analytical expressions for encounter rates under Ornstein-Uhlenbeck motion, which features non-uniform space use and allows individual home ranges to differ from the population range. We compare OU-based encounter predictions to those of Reflected Brownian Motion, from which the law of mass action can be derived. For both models, we further explore how the interplay between the scale of perception and home-range size affects encounter rates. We find that neglecting realistic movement and perceptual behaviors can lead to systematic, non-negligible biases in encounter-rate predictions.

Keywords: Ecological theory; Encounter rates; Movement ecology; Home ranges

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How optimal allocation of limited testing capacity changes epidemic dynamics

Calabrese, J.; Demers, J.

Insufficient testing capacity continues to be a critical bottleneck in the worldwide fight against COVID-19. Optimizing the deployment of limited testing resources has therefore emerged as a keystone problem in pandemic response planning. Here, we use a modified SEIR model to optimize testing strategies under a constraint of limited testing capacity. We define pre-symptomatic, asymptomatic, and symptomatic infected classes, and assume that positively tested individuals are immediately moved into quarantine. We further define two types of testing. Clinical testing focuses only on the symptomatic class. Non-clinical testing detects pre- and asymptomatic individuals from the general population, and an information parameter governs the degree to which such testing can be focused on high infection risk individuals. We then solve for the optimal mix of clinical and non-clinical testing as a function of both testing capacity and the information parameter. We find that purely clinical testing is optimal at very low testing capacities, supporting early guidance to ration tests for the sickest patients.
Additionally, we find that a mix of clinical and non-clinical testing becomes optimal as testing capacity increases. At high but empirically observed testing capacities, a mix of clinical testing and unfocused (information=0) non-clinical testing becomes optimal. We further highlight the dvantages of early implementation of testing programs, and of combining optimized testing with contact reduction interventions such as lockdowns, social distancing, and masking.

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Formation of spiral waves in cylindrical containers under orbital excitation

Horstmann, G. M.; Anders, S.; Kelley, D.; Weier, T.

The lowest swirling wave mode arising in upright circular cylinders as a response to orbital excitation has been widely studied in the last decade, largely owing to its high practical relevance for orbitally shaken bioreactors. Our recent theoretical study (Horstmann et al. 2020) revealed a damping-induced symmetry breaking mechanism that can cause spiral wave structures manifested in the so far widely disregarded higher rotating wave modes. Building on this work, we develop a spiralisation criterion and classify different spiral regimes as a function of the most relevant dimensionless groups. The analysis suggests that high Bond numbers and shallow liquid layers favour the formation of coherent spiral waves. This result paved the way to find the predicted wave structures in our interfacial sloshing experiment. We present two sets of experiments, with different characteristic damping rates, verifying the formation of both coherent and overdamped spiral waves in conformity with the theoretical predictions.

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Impact of high pressure torsion processing on helium ion irradiation resistance of molybdenum

Krawczyńska, A. T.; Ciupiński, Ł.; Gloc, M.; Setman, D.; Spychalski, M.; Suchecki, P.; Adamczyk-Cieślak, B.; Liedke, M. O.; Butterling, M.; Wagner, A.; Hirschmann, E.; Petersson, P.

The microstructure of molybdenum mirrors was refined by high pressure torsion. Already after one rotation microhardness significantly increased from 231 for the as-received mirror to 542 HV0.2. The increase of number of rotations to five caused further slight increase of microhardness to 558 HV0.2. The higher microhardness values correspond well with the grain refinement as the grain size decreased with the increase of the deformation degree down to 480 and 110 nm, respectively for 1 and 5 rotations. Subsequently, refined mirrors and a reference micrograined one were irradiated by He ions to the dose of 8x1016/cm 2 to simulate the effect of plasma exposure on diagnostic mirrors to be applied in D-T fusion devices. Irradiations were followed by reflectivity measurements in the 300-2400 nm range with a dual beam spectrometer. It was noticed that irradiation caused a slight decrease in total reflectivity of the micrograined mirror, whereas that of high-pressure torsion-processed samples decreases by an additional 2.5%. Nanohardness measurements, detailed microscopy observations using focused ion beam and scanning transmission electron microscope as well as positron annihilation spectroscopy investigations were performed to elucidate that cause of those changes. Based on the results, it is postulated that the nanocracks created at grain boundaries during irradiation in the optically active layer are responsible for lower reflectivity of high-pressure torsion-processed mirrors.

Keywords: nanomaterials; ion irradiation; electron microscopy; vacancy; severe plastic deformation; positron annihilation spectroscopy; PALS

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Autonomous implementation of thermodynamic cycles at the nanoscale

Strasberg, P.; Wächtler, C. W.; Schaller, G.

There are two paradigms to study nanoscale engines in stochastic and quantum thermodynamics.
Autonomous models, which do not rely on any external time-dependence, and models that make use of time-dependent control fields, often combined with dividing the control protocol into idealized strokes of a thermodynamic cycle. While the latter paradigm offers theoretical simplifications, its utility in practice has been questioned due to the involved approximations. Here, we bridge the two paradigms by constructing an autonomous model, which implements a thermodynamic cycle in a certain parameter regime. This effect is made possible by self-oscillations, realized in our model by the well studied electron shuttling mechanism. Based on experimentally realistic values, we find that a thermodynamic cycle analysis for a single-electron working fluid is unrealistic, but already a few-electron working fluid could suffice to justify it. We also briefly discuss additional open challenges to autonomously implement the more studied Carnot and Otto cycles.

Keywords: thermodynamic cycle; self-oscillation; autonomous control; electron shuttle

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Spin stress contribution to the lattice dynamics of FePt

von Reppert, A.; Willig, L.; Pudell, J.-E.; Zeuschner, S.; Sellge, G.; Ganss, F.; Hellwig, O.; Ander Arregi, J.; Uhlíř, V.; Crut, A.; Bargheer, M.

Invar-behavior occurring in many magnetic materials has long been of interest to materials science. Here, we show not only invar behavior of a continuous film of FePt but also even negative thermal expansion of FePt nanograins upon equilibrium heating. Yet, both samples exhibit pronounced transient expansion upon laser heating in femtosecond x-ray diffraction experiments. We show that the granular microstructure is essential to support the contractive out-of-plane stresses originating from in-plane expansion via the Poisson effect that add to the uniaxial contractive stress driven by spin disorder. We prove the spin contribution by saturating the magnetic excitations with a first laser pulse and then detecting the purely expansive response to a second pulse. The contractive spin stress is reestablished on the same 100-ps time scale that we observe for the recovery of the ferromagnetic order. Finite-element modeling of the mechanical response of FePt nanosystems confirms the morphology dependence of the dynamics.

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Theory of three-magnon interaction in a vortex-state magnetic nanodot

Verba, R.; Körber, L.; Schultheiß, K.; Schultheiß, H.; Tiberkevich, V.; Slavin, A.

We use vector Hamiltonian formalism (VHF) to study theoretically three-magnon parametric interaction (or three-wave splitting) in a magnetic disk existing in a magnetic vortex ground state. The three-wave splitting in a disk is found to obey two selection rules: (i) conservation of the total azimuthal number of the resultant spin-wave modes, and (ii) inequality for the radial numbers of interacting modes, if the mode directly excited by the driving field is radially symmetric (i.e. if the azimuthal number of the directly excited mode is m=0). The selection rule (ii), however, is relaxed in the "small" magnetic disks, due to the influence of the vortex core. We also found, that the efficiency of the three-wave interaction of the directly excited mode strongly depends on the azimuthal and radial mode numbers of the resultant modes, that becomes determinative in the case when several splitting channels (several pairs of resultant modes) simultaneously approximately satisfy the resonance condition for the splitting. The good agreement of the VHF analytic calculations with the experiment and micromagnetic simulations proves the capability of the VHF formalism to predict the actual splitting channels and the magnitudes of the driving field thresholds for the three-wave splitting.

Keywords: spin wave; nonlinear; three-magnon interaction; theory; micromagnetic simulation; vortex

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Circular by Design (CbD) - Ressourcenwende über nachhaltiges Produktdesign am Fallbeispiel Kühl-/Gefriergeräte

Raatz, S.; Heibeck, M.; Bickel, M.; Liedtke, C.; Tochtrop, C.; Schliack, M.; Förster, S.; Wächter, M.; Irmer, J.

Das Ziel von „Circular by Design“ besteht in der Entwicklung eines kreislauffähigen Produktdesigns für Kühl-/Gefriergeräte, das neben Energieeffizienz auch auf Ressourceneffizienz hin optimiert ist. Mit dem durch das BMBF geförderten Projekt soll die tatsächlich machbare Umsetzung von zirkulärem Design, zum einen mit dem Fokus auf Repair/Reuse und zum anderen auf möglichst geschlossene Recyclingpfade, demonstriert werden.
Die Zusammenführung der Ressourceneffizienzanalyse mit dem technologieorientierten und simulationsbasierten „Design for Recycling“-Modell soll künftig die Vorhersage eines für eine vollständige Kreislaufführung geeigneten Produktdesigns erlauben. Es werden die derzeitigen Verluste beim Erfassen und Recycling eines Kühl-/Gefriergerätes auf verschiedenen Ebenen quantifiziert, Ressourceneffizienzpotentiale dargestellt und auf dieser Basis ein Produktdesign entwickelt, dessen Materialzusammensetzung ein möglichst vollständiges Recycling sowie Reuse erlaubt.

Keywords: Recyclingfähigkeit; zirkuläres Produktdesign; metallische Rohstoffe; Ressourceneffizienz; Kreislaufwirtschaft; Kühl-/Gefriergeräte; Nachhaltigkeit; Substitution; Sekundäre Rohstoffe

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    Recy & DepoTech 2020, 18.-20.11.2020, Leoben, Österreich
    Circular by Design (CbD) - Ressourcenwende über nachhaltiges Produktdesign am Fallbeispiel Kühl-/Gefriergeräte, Wien: aVW Abfallverwertungstechnik & Abfallwirtschaft, 978-3-200-07190-2, 799-804

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Strongly coupled electron liquid: Ab initio path integral Monte Carlo simulations and dielectric theories

Dornheim, T.; Sjostrom, T.; Tanaka, S.; Vorberger, J.

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Strongly coupled electron liquid: Ab initio path integral Monte Carlo simulations and dielectric theories

Tobias Dornheim, Travis Sjostrom, Shigenori Tanaka, and Jan Vorberger

Phys. Rev. B 101, 045129 – Published 27 January 2020

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Mapping the Structure of Oxygen-Doped Wurtzite Aluminum Nitride Coatings From Ab Initio Random Structure Search and Experiments

Gasparotto, P.; Fischer, M.; Scopece, D.; Liedke, M. O.; Butterling, M.; Wagner, A.; Yildirim, O.; Trant, M.; Passerone, D.; Hug, H. J.; Pignedoli, C. A.

Machine learning is changing how we design and interpret experiments in materials science. In this work we show how unsupervised learning, combined with ab initio random structure searching, improves our understanding of structural metastability in multicomponent alloys. We focus on the case of Al-O-N alloys where the formation of aluminum vacancies in wurtzite AlN upon the incorporation of substitutional oxygen can be seen as a general mechanism of solids where crystal symmetry is reduced to stabilize defects. The ideal AlN wurtzite crystal structure occupation cannot be matched due to the presence of an aliovalent hetero-element into the structure. The traditional interpretation of the c-lattice shrinkage in sputter-deposited Al-O-N films from X-ray diffraction (XRD) experiments suggests the existence of a solubility limit at 8 at.% oxygen content. Here we show that such naive interpretation is misleading. We support XRD data with accurate ab initio modeling and dimensionality reduction on advanced structural descriptors to map structure-property relationships. No signs of a possible solubility limit are found. Instead, the presence of a wide range of non-equilibrium oxygen-rich defective structures emerging at increasing oxygen contents suggests that the formation of grain boundaries is the most plausible mechanism responsible for the lattice shrinkage measured in Al-O-N sputtered films. We further confirm our hypothesis using positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy.

Keywords: machine learning; ab initio; AlN; vacancy; defects; positron annihilation spectroscopy; XRD; PALS

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New instrumentation to enable novel imaging modalities using sub-50 keV transmitted helium ions

Mousley, M.; Eswara, S.; de Castro, O.; Bouton, O.; Serralta Hurtado De Menezes, E.; Klingner, N.; Koch, C.; Hlawacek, G.; Wirtz, T.

Helium ions offer an alternative imaging probe to electrons, with a smaller de Broglie wavelength at the same energy [1] [2][3]. Furthermore, the ability for neutralisation means that images can be formed by collecting only post-sample neutrals or both neutrals and transmitted ions. A comparison between the two can map where ions are more easily neutralised and offers an alternative contrast mechanism not possible with electrons. Transmission helium ion imaging is quite an understudied field and more experiments are required to fully assess the possibilities and benefits with this new microscopy. With this aim in mind, a prototype transmission helium ion microscope (THIM) has been constructed at the Luxembourg -Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) (Figure 1). The ion source is a duoplasmatron operated at 10-20 keV with a minimum beam spot size of 100 µm and a beam current of 0.1-2 nA . A microchannel plate (MCP) located behind the sample converts the transmitted ion signal to an electron shower which then hits a phosphor screen for direct transmission imaging with a stationary beam [4]. The detector is placed over 50 cm away from the sample. Imaging of crystalline powders showed unexpectedly large charging and deformation of the beam, producing collections of spots (Figure 2). Scanning transmission ion microscopy (STIM) can also be conducted if the phosphor screen is replaced with a metal anode plate. As the beam is scanned over the sample surface, the current from the plate is measured and gives the intensity at each pixel in the STHIM image. A secondary electron detector in front of the sample is used to record secondary electron images at the same time as STIM imaging (Figure 1). Post sample deflectors blank all ions in transmission, such that only neutral atoms are imaged and the fraction of neutralised ions can be estimated. Electrostatic blanking and using the anode plate current as a stop signal allows one to determine the energy of transmitted particles by measuring their time of flight (TOF). In addition, a position sensitive delay line detector has recently been installed, to add position sensitivity to the TOF measurements. This allows both the trajectory and energy of and ion to be measured at the same time, providing a more complete record of the transmission through the sample.

On a separate prototype machine, the ‘NPScope’ instrument, which combines a gas field ion source with a transmission delay line detector, STIM can be performed with nanometre spot size. This enables parallel bright and dark field imaging using the same detector (Figure 3).

Keywords: helium ion imaging; Scanning transmission ion microscopy

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Gold implanted germanium photoswitch for cavity dumping of a free-electron laser

Rana, R.; Klopf, J. M.; Ciano, C.; Singh, A.; Winnerl, S.; Schneider, H.; Helm, M.; Pashkin, O.

We present a plasma switch based on gold implanted germanium (Ge:Au) as a potential candidate for efficient cavity dumping of a free-electron laser (FEL). Ge:Au has a sub-nanosecond carrier lifetime – much shorter than the FEL pulsing period of 77 ns – and demonstrates a high photoinduced reflectivity in a broad range of infrared wavelengths from 6 to 90 µm. The Ge:Au plasma switch exhibits negligible absorption of the FEL radiation in the ʻoff ʼ state and requires only moderate thermoelectric cooling for incident FEL power of several Watts. A reflectivity level of more than 50 % in the ‘on’ state is achieved over the entire spectral range of this study. The corresponding optical pump fluence exhibits a linear relationship with the FEL frequency. This scaling is corroborated by our simulations highlighting the role of a finite sub-µm thickness of the photoinduced reflecting plasma layer. The demonstrated device is promising for the realization of the FEL cavity dumping for experiments that simultaneously require higher pulse energy and lower average power.

Keywords: Intense Terahertz pulses; Free Electron Laser; Cavity dumping; Optical switch

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Data for "Observation of strong magneto plasmonic nonlinearity in bilayer graphene discs"

Chin, M. L.; Matschy, S.; Stawitzki, F.; Poojali, J.; Hafez, H. A.; Turchinovich, D.; Winnerl, S.; Kumar, G.; Myers-Ward, R. L.; Dejarld, M. T.; Daniels, K. M.; Drew, H. D.; Murphy, T. E.; Mittendorff, M.

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Data for: Fusion of Dual Spatial Information for Hyperspectral Image Classification

Duan, P.; Ghamisi, P.; Kang, X.; Rasti, B.; Li, S.; Gloaguen, R.

The inclusion of spatial information into spectral classifiers for fine-resolution hyperspectral imagery has led to significant improvements in terms of classification performance. The task of spectral-spatial hyperspectral image classification has remained challenging because of high intraclass spectrum variability and low interclass spectral variability. This fact has made the extraction of spatial information highly active. In this work, a novel hyperspectral image classification framework using the fusion of dual spatial information is proposed, in which the dual spatial information is built by both exploiting pre-processing feature extraction and post-processing spatial optimization. In the feature extraction stage, an adaptive texture smoothing method is proposed to construct the structural profile (SP), which makes it possible to precisely extract discriminative features from hyperspectral images. The SP extraction method is used here for the first time in the remote sensing community. Then, the extracted SP is fed into a spectral classifier. In the spatial optimization stage, a pixel-level classifier is used to obtain the class probability followed by an extended random walker-based spatial optimization technique. Finally, a decision fusion rule is utilized to fuse the class probabilities obtained by the two different stages. Experiments performed on three data sets from different scenes illustrate that the proposed method can outperform other state-of-the-art classification techniques. In addition, the proposed feature extraction method, i.e., SP, can effectively improve the discrimination between different land covers.

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Data for: Remote Sensing Image Classification Using Subspace Sensor Fusion

Rasti, B.; Ghamisi, P.

The amount of remote sensing and ancillary datasets captured by diverse airborne and spaceborne sensors has been tremendously increased, which opens up the possibility of utilizing multimodal datasets to improve the performance of processing approaches with respect to the application at hand. However, developing a generic framework with high generalization capability that can effectively fuse diverse datasets is a challenging task since the current approaches are usually only applicable to two specific sensors for data fusion. In this paper, we propose an accurate fusion-based technique called SubFus with capability to integrate diverse remote sensing data for land cover classification. Here, we assume that a high dimensional multisensor dataset can be represented fused features that live in a lower-dimensional space. The proposed classification methodology includes three main stages. First, spatial information is extracted by using spatial filters (i.e., morphology filters). Then, a novel low- rank minimization problem is proposed to represent the multisensor datasets in subspaces using fused features. The fused features in the lower-dimensional subspace are estimated using a novel iterative algorithm based on the alternative direction method of multipliers. Third, the final classification map is produced by applying a supervised spectral classifier (i.e., random forest) on the fused features. In the experiments, the proposed method is applied to a three-sensor (RGB, multispectral LiDAR, and hyperspectral images) dataset captured over the area of the University of Houston, the USA, and a two-sensor (hyperspectral and LiDAR) dataset captured over the city of Trento, Italy. The land-cover maps generated using SubFus are evaluated based on classification accuracies. Experimental results obtained by SubFus confirm considerable improvements in terms of classification accuracies compared with the other methods used in the experiments. The proposed fusion approach obtains 85.32% and 99.25% in terms of overall classification accuracy on the Houston (the training portion of the dataset distributed for the data fusion contest of 2018) and trento datasets, respectively.

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The Road to Exascale

Stephan, J.

Exascale is the next big step in the field of high-performance computing. However, the hardware configurations of supercomputers around the world are becoming increasingly heterogeneous. Programmers have to take into account varying processor architectures (x86, ARM, RISC-V, ...) as well as different accelerator types (multicore CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, ...) and the accompanying tools. Our goal is a portable stack of C++ libraries and tools. Together they shall form an ecosystem which abstracts away the differences between hardware configurations without sacrificing performance.

Keywords: alpaka; C++; heterogeneous computing; heterogeneous programming; HPC; hardware abstraction

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Four-Frequency Solution in a Magnetohydrodynamic Couette Flow as a Consequence of Azimuthal Symmetry Breaking

Garcia, F.; Seilmayer, M.; Giesecke, A.; Stefani, F.

The occurrence of magnetohydrodynamic quasiperiodic flows with four fundamental frequencies in differentially rotating spherical geometry is understood in terms of a sequence of bifurcations breaking the azimuthal symmetry of the flow as the applied magnetic field strength is varied. These flows originate from unstable periodic and quasiperiodic states with broken equatorial symmetry, but having fourfold azimuthal symmetry. A posterior bifurcation gives rise to twofold symmetric quasiperiodic states, with three fundamental frequencies, and a further bifurcation to a four-frequency quasiperiodic state which has lost all the spatial symmetries. This bifurcation scenario may be favored when differential rotation is increased and periodic flows with m-fold azimuthal symmetry, m being a product of several prime numbers, emerge at sufficiently large magnetic field.

Keywords: Astrophysical fluid dynamics; Bifurcations; Chaos; Flow instability; Geophysical fluid dynamics; Magnetohydrodynamics

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Laser produced electromagnetic pulses: generation, detection and mitigation

Consoli, F.; Tikhonchuk, V. T.; Bardon, M.; Bradford, P.; Carrol, D. C.; Cikhardt, J.; Cipriani, M.; Clarke, R. J.; Cowan, T. E.; Danson, C. N.; de Angelis, R.; de Marco, M.; Dubois, J.-L.; Etchessahar, B.; Laso Garcia, A.; Hillier, D. I.; Weiman, J.; Kmetik, V.; Krasa, J.; Li, Y.; Lubrano, F.; McKenna, P.; Metzkes-Ng, J.; Poye, A.; Prencipe, I.; Raczka, P.; Smith, R. A.; Vrana, R.; Woolsey, N. C.; Zemaityte, E.; Zhang, Y.; Zhang, Z.; Zielbauer, B.; Neely, D.; Honsa, A.

This paper provides an up-to-date review of the problems related to the generation, detection and mitigation of strong electromagnetic pulses created in the interaction of high-power, high-energy laser pulses with different types of solid targets. It includes new experimental data obtained independently at several international laboratories. The mechanisms of electromagnetic field generation are analyzed and considered as a function of the intensity and the spectral range of emissions they produce. The major emphasis is put on the GHz frequency domain, which is the most damaging for electronics and may have important applications. The physics of electromagnetic emissions in other spectral domains, in particular THz and MHz, is also discussed. The theoretical models and numerical simulations are compared with the results of experimental measurements, with special attention to the methodology of measurements and complementary diagnostics. Understanding the underlying physical processes is the basis for developing techniques to mitigate the electromagnetic threat and to harness electromagnetic emissions, which may have promising applications.

Keywords: Electromagnetic Pulses; High-Power Lasers; Diagnostics; Mitigation Techniques

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Deep model simulation of polar vortices in gas giant atmospheres

Garcia, F.; Chambers, F. R. N.; Watts, A. L.

The Cassini and Juno probes have revealed large coherent cyclonic vortices in the polar regions of Saturn and Jupiter, a dramatic contrast from the east–west banded jet structure seen at lower latitudes. Debate has centred on whether the jets are shallow, or extend to greater depths in the planetary envelope. Recent experiments and observations have demonstrated the relevance of deep convection models to a successful explanation of jet structure, and cyclonic coherent vortices away from the polar regions have been simulated recently including an additional stratified shallow layer. Here we present new convective models able to produce long-lived polar vortices. Using simulation parameters relevant for giant planet atmospheres we find flow regimes of geostrophic turbulence (GT) in agreement with rotating convection theory. The formation of large-scale coherent structures occurs via 3D upscale energy transfers. Our simulations generate polar characteristics qualitatively similar to those seen by Juno and Cassini: They match the structure of cyclonic vortices seen on Jupiter; or can account for the existence of a strong polar vortex extending downwards to lower latitudes with a marked spiral morphology, and the hexagonal pattern seen on Saturn. Our findings indicate that these vortices can be generated deep in the planetary interior. A transition differentiating these two polar flows regimes is described, interpreted in terms of force balances and compared with shallow atmospheric models characterizing polar vortex dynamics in giant planets. In addition, heat transport properties are investigated, confirming recent scaling laws obtained with reduced models of GT.

Keywords: convection; turbulence; software: simulations; planets and satellites: gaseous planets

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Bremsstrahlung emission and plasma characterization driven by moderately relativistic laser-plasma interactions

Singh, S. K.; Armstrong, C.; Kang, N.; Ren, L.; Liu, H.; Hua, N.; Rusby, D. R.; Klimo, O.; Versaci, R.; Zhang, Y.; Sun, M.; Zhu, B.; Lei, A.; Ouyang, X.; Lancia, L.; Laso Garcia, A.; Wagner, A.; Cowan, T. E.; Schlegel, T.; Weber, S.; McKenna, P.; Neely, D.; Tikhonchuk, V. T.; Kumar, D.; Zhu, J.

Relativistic electrons generated by the interaction of petawatt-class short laser pulses with solid targets can be used to generate bright X-rays via bremsstrahlung. The efficiency of laser energy transfer into these electrons depends on multiple parameters including focused intensity and pre-plasma level. This paper describes the experimental results from the interaction of a high intensity petawatt-class glass laser with solid targets at a maximum intensity of 10^19 W/cm^2. In-situ measurements of specularly reflected light were used to provide an upper bound of laser absorption and to characterize focused laser intensity, the pre-plasma level and the generation mechanism of second harmonic light. The measured spectrum of electrons and bremsstrahlung radiation provide information about the efficiency of laser energy transfer.

Keywords: Plasma Physics; Bremsstrahlung; High intensity laser

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Biohydrometallurgy

Lederer, F.; Pollmann, K.

Biohydrometallurgy is one of many different processes for metal recovery. As a highly interdisciplinary field, biohydrometallurgy combines microorganisms and their metabolites (-bio) in a mainly aquatic environment (-hydro) and the treatment of metal containing materials or solutions (-metallurgy) for metal production and treatment. It is applied to many different metal-rich materials from primary mineral sources, secondary mining products and numerous manufactured resources (Watling, 2015). Biohydrometallurgy is using biological tools for the processing of primary ores for many years – especially in case of bioleaching. Besides that, special biological tools can enhance the metal recovery from manufactured resources such as technical waste products, processing wastes, industrial waste waters and other secondary sources (Pollmann et al. 2018). In nature multiple processes exist that influence biogeochemical cycles of elements. These microorganism driven processes contribute to bioaccumulation, bio weathering, biomineralization and precipitation or microbial reduction. Using these bio-inspired processes promotes biological recycling strategies as well as several clean industrial processes, bio-based materials and bioremediation. Modern bio-based approaches that are currently being developed for the recycling of value elements found in technical products contributing to a “green” circular economy. Main processes in biohydrometallurgy are bioleaching, biosorption, bioflotation and bioreduction.

Keywords: Biohydrometallurgy; Bioleaching; Biosorption; Bioflotation; Bioreduction; Bioaccumulation

  • Book chapter
    Maria E. Holuszko, Amit Kumar, Denise C.R. Espinosa: Electronic Waste: Recycling and Reprocessing for a Sustainable Future, Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, 2021, 978-3-527-34490-1, 189-202

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Publ.-Id: 32026


Chaotic wave dynamics in weakly magnetized spherical Couette flows

Garcia Gonzalez, F.; Seilmayer, M.; Giesecke, A.; Stefani, F.

Direct numerical simulations of a liquid metal filling the gap between two concentric spheres are presented. The flow is governed by the interplay between the rotation of the inner sphere (measured by the Reynolds number Re) and a weak externally applied axial magnetic field (measured by the Hartmann number Ha). By varying the latter, a rich variety of flow features, both in terms of spatial symmetry and temporal dependence, is obtained. Flows with two or three independent frequencies describing their time evolution are found as a result of Hopf bifurcations. They are stable on a sufficiently large interval of Hartmann numbers where regions of multistability of two, three, and even four types of these different flows are detected. The temporal character of the solutions is analyzed by means of an accurate frequency analysis and Poincaré sections. An unstable branch of flows undergoing a period doubling cascade and frequency locking of three-frequency solutions is described as well.

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Printable anisotropic magnetoresistance sensors for highly compliant electronics

Oliveros Mata, E. S.; Canon Bermudez, G. S.; Ha, M.; Kosub, T.; Zabila, Y.; Faßbender, J.; Makarov, D.

Printed electronics are attractive due to their low-cost and large-area processing features, which have been successfully extended to magnetoresistive sensors and devices. Here, we introduce and characterize a new kind of magnetoresistive paste based on the anisotropic magnetoresistive (AMR) effect. The paste is a composite of 100-nm-thick permalloy/tantalum flakes embedded in an elastomer matrix, which promotes the formation of appropriately conductive percolation networks. Sensors printed with this paste showed stable magnetoresistive properties upon mechanical bending. The AMR value of this sensor is 0.34% in the field of 400 mT. Still, the response is stable and allows to resolve sub-mT field steps. When printed on ultra-thin 2.5-μm-thick Mylar foil, the sensor can be completely folded without losing magnetoresistive performance and mechanically withstand 20 μm bending radius. The developed compliant printed AMR sensor would be attractive to implement on curved and/or dynamic bendable surfaces for on-skin applications and interactive printed electronics.

Keywords: Flexible sensor; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Printed electronics

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Publ.-Id: 32024


Untersuchungen zur Optimierung der Selektivität bei der Extraktion von Indium durch gezielte Komplexbildung

Göthel, J.

Indium kann sekundärmetallurgisch aus der Prozessierung von Schlacken, Flugstäuben und metallischen Zwischenprodukten aus der Zinkdarstellung gewonnen werden. Eine weitere Möglichkeit der Indiumgewinnung stellt sich in der Aufbereitung von Rückständen des Bergbaus durch Biolaugungsprozesse dar. Höhere Konzentrationen an Eisen und Zink sind in den gewinnbaren Laugen im Vergleich zu sehr niedrigen Indiumkonzentrationen häufig präsent. Ein Trenn- und Aufbereitungsverfahren für die Verarbeitung von hydro-metallurgischen Prozesslösungen und die Gewinnung von Einsatzstoffen aus diesen wird durch Ionenaustauscherharze realisiert. Sowohl kationische als auch anionische feste Ionenaustauscherharze zeigen für Indium in sauren wässrigen Lösungen eine Affinität für die Indiumadsorption. Hinsichtlich der selektiven Adsorption von Indium gegenüber Eisen und Zink mittels festen Anionenaustauschern wurde der Einfluss der selektiven Komplexbildung von Indium durch die Zugabe von Iod in der Form von Kaliumiodid auf die Adsorption untersucht. Als Referenzsystem wurde die Indiumadsorption an festen Kationen-austauscherharzen gewählt. Die selektive Adsorption für Indium wurde aus einer vereinfachten Modelllösung der Biolaugungslösung des „ReMining“-Projektes hinsichtlich der Faktorgrößen des pH-Wertes, der Kaliumiodid- und Indiumadsorption im kleineren Maßstab im Becherglas untersucht. Die bestimmten Optima wurden auf die Prozessierung der realen Biolaugungslösung in Ionenaustauschersäulen angewandt. Indium kann in vergleichbaren quantitativen Mengen sowohl als anionischer Komplex ([InI4]-) von den getesteten Anionenaustauscherharzen A 111 und A 500 als auch von dem Kationenaustauscherharz MTS 9300 als Kation In3+ durch Adsorption aus der Modell- und Biolaugungslösung extrahiert werden. Beide Ionenaustauscher zeigen höchste Selektivitäten gegenüber Eisen, Arsen und Aluminium. Der Vergleich der Konzentrationsverhältnisse von Feed und dem Eluat zeigt, dass Eisen zu ~ 700 Mal mehr wie Indium (Fe/In = ~ 700) im Feed vorhanden ist und nach dem Ionenaustausch ~ 0,7 Mal so viel wie Indium (Fe/In = ~ 0,7) im Eluat verbleibt. Kupfer und Cadmium konnten von dem Anionenaustauscherharz A 111 nicht mit destilliertem Wasser und 0,1 M Schwefelsäure eluiert werden. In der Gesamtbetrachtung der selektiven Adsorption und Eluation von Indium aus der realen Biolaugungslösung ist das Kationenaustauscherharz MTS 9300 dem Anionenaustauscherharz A 111 vorzuziehen.

  • Diploma thesis
    TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 2020
    Mentor: Toni Helbig/Arite Werner

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A bimodal soft electronic skin for tactile and touchless interaction in real time

Ge, J.; Wang, X.; Drack, M.; Volkov, O.; Liang, M.; Canon Bermudez, G. S.; Wang, C.; Zhou, S.; Faßbender, J.; Kaltenbrunner, M.; Makarov, D.

The transformative emergence of smart electronics, human-friendly robotics and supplemented or virtual reality will revolutionize the interplay with our surrounding. The complexity that is involved in the manipulation of objects in these emerging technologies is dramatically increased, which calls for electronic skins (e-skin) that can conduct tactile and touchless sensing events in a simultaneous and unambiguous way. Integrating multiple functions in a single sensing unit offers the most promising path towards simple, scalable and intuitive-to-use e-skin architectures. However, by now, this path has always been hindered by the confusing overlap of signals from different stimuli.
Here, we put forward the field of soft, flexible electronics by developing a compliant magnetic microelectromechanical platform (m-MEMS), which is able to transduce both tactile (via mechanical pressure) and touchless (via magnetic field) stimulations simultaneously and discriminate them in real time [1]. For the first time, the electric signals from tactile and touchless interactions are intrinsically separated into two different regions, allowing the m-MEMS, a single sensor unit, to unambiguously distinguish the two modes without knowing the signal history.
Owing to its intrinsic magnetic functionality, our complaint m-MEMS platform is able to discriminate magnetic vs. non-magnetic objects already upon touchless interaction. With this intrinsic selectivity, we address the long-standing problem in the field of touchless interaction – namely, the issue of interference with objects, which are irrelevant or even disturbing the interaction process. In addition, the interaction process is programmable. The sensitivity of the two interaction modes could be tuned by adjusting the magnetic field of the objects able to meet the requirements of different interaction tasks.
By using tactile and touchless sensing functions simultaneously, our m-MEMS e-skins enable complex interactions with a magnetically functionalized physical object that is supplemented with content data appearing in the virtual reality. We demonstrated data selection and manipulation with our m-MEMS e-skins leading to the realization of a multi-choice for augmented reality through three dimensional (3D) touch. Beyond the field of augmented reality, our m-MEMS will bring great benefits for healthcare, e.g. to ease surgery operations and manipulation of medical equipment, as well as for humanoid robots to overcome the challenging task of grasping.

[1] J. Ge, X. Wang, M. Drack, O. Volkov, M. Liang, G. S. Cañón Bermúdez, R. Illing, C. Wang, S. Zhou, J. Fassbender, M. Kaltenbrunner, and D. Makarov. A bimodal soft electronic skin for tactile and touchless interaction in real time. Nature Communications 10, 4405 (2019).

Keywords: flexible electronics; shapeable magnetoelectronics

  • Lecture (Conference) (Online presentation)
    2020 MRS Fall Meeting, 02.12.2020, Boston, USA

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Flexible highly compliant magnetoelectronics

Canon Bermudez, G. S.; Ge, J.; Faßbender, J.; Kaltenbrunner, M.; Makarov, D.

Mechanical flexibility and even stretchability of functional elements is a key enabler of numerous applications including wearable electronics, healthcare and medical appliances. The magnetism community developed the family of high-performance shapeable magnetoelectronics [1], which contain flexible [2-4], printable [5-7], stretchable [8-11] and even mechanically imperceptible [12-16] magnetic field sensorics. The technology relies on a smart combination of thin inorganic functional elements prepared directly on flexible or elastomeric supports. The concept of shapeable magnetoelectronics is explored for various applications ranging from automotive [17] through consumer electronics and point of care [2,18] to virtual and augmented reality [14-16] applications.
Here, we will focus on the use of compliant magnetosensitive skins [14-16] for augmented reality systems. We demonstrate that e-skin compasses [14] allow humans to orient with respect to earth’s magnetic field ubiquitously. The biomagnetic orientation enables the realization of a touchless control of virtual units in a game engine using omnidirectional magnetosensitive skins (Fig. 1).
This concept was further extended by demonstrating a compliant magnetic microelectromechanical platform (m-MEMS), which is able to transduce both tactile (via mechanical pressure) and touchless (via magnetic field) stimulations simultaneously and discriminate them in real time [16] (Fig. 2). We demonstrate data selection and manipulation with our m-MEMS e-skins leading to the realization of a multi-choice menu for augmented reality through three dimensional (3D) touch. Beyond the field of augmented reality, our m-MEMS will bring great benefits for healthcare, e.g. to ease surgery operations and manipulation of medical equipment, as well as for humanoid robots to overcome the challenging task of grasping.
[1] D. Makarov et al., Appl. Phys. Rev. (Review) 3, 011101 (2016).
[2] G. Lin, D. Makarov et al., Lab Chip 14, 4050 (2014).
[3] N. Münzenrieder, D. Makarov et al., Adv. Electron. Mater. 2, 1600188 (2016).
[4] M. Melzer, D. Makarov et al., Adv. Mater. 27, 1274 (2015).
[5] D. Makarov et al., ChemPhysChem (Review) 14, 1771 (2013).
[6] D. Karnaushenko, D. Makarov et al., Adv. Mater. 24, 4518 (2012).
[7] D. Karnaushenko, D. Makarov et al., Adv. Mater. 27, 880 (2015).
[8] M. Melzer, D. Makarov et al., J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. (Review) 53, 083002 (2020).
[9] M. Melzer, D. Makarov et al., Nano Lett. 11, 2522 (2011).
[10] M. Melzer, D. Makarov et al., Adv. Mater. 24, 6468 (2012).
[11] M. Melzer, D. Makarov et al., Adv. Mater. 27, 1333 (2015).
[12] M. Melzer, D. Makarov et al., Nat. Commun. 6, 6080 (2015).
[13] P. N. Granell, D. Makarov et al., npj Flexible Electronics 3, 3 (2019).
[14] G. S. Cañón Bermúdez, D. Makarov et al., Nature Electronics 1, 589 (2018).
[15] G. S. Cañón Bermúdez, D. Makarov et al., Science Advances 4, eaao2623 (2018).
[16] J. Ge, D. Makarov et al., Nature Communications 10, 4405 (2019).
[17] M. Melzer, D. Makarov et al., Adv. Mater. 27, 1274 (2015).
[18] G. Lin, D. Makarov et al., Lab Chip (Review) 17, 1884 (2017).

Keywords: flexible electronics; shapeable magnetoelectronics

  • Lecture (Conference) (Online presentation)
    65th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 03.11.2020, Palm Beach, USA

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Druckbare Hochleistungs-Magnetoelektronik

Makarov, D.

Gedruckte Elektronik wird das Gebiet der konventionellen Elektronik revolutionieren und eine kostengünstige, großflächige Produktion mit hohem Durchsatz ermöglichen. Durch Hinzufügen eines Magnetfeldsensors zur Familie der druckbaren Elektronik [1] wollen wir energieeffiziente kontaktlose Schalter für intelligente Verpackungen oder Postkarten sowie intelligente und schützende Kleidung (z. B. für Feuerwehrleute, Sportler) realisieren mit einem In- Stoff integrierte Navigations- und Positionsverfolgungsmodule. Für dieses Konzept wurden hochleistungsfähige druckbare Magnetfeldsensoren realisiert, die auf dem Riesenmagnetowiderstandseffekt (GMR) beruhen [2]. Diese Sensoren werden aus einer Paste gedruckt, die GMR-Flocken enthält, welche mittels Dünnschichttechnologien hergestellt wurden. Solche GMR-Sensoren können auch auf flexiblen Substraten siebgedruckt werden und bleiben in einem Temperaturbereich von -10°C bis +95°C [3] gemäß den Anforderungen an die Unterhaltungselektronik voll funktionsfähig.
In dieser Präsentation werden wir die aktuelle Technologie zur Realisierung von druckbaren Hochleistungs-Magnetfeldsensoren überprüfen. Wir werden zeigen, dass GMR-Sensoren auf ultradünne Polymerfolien mit einer Foliendicke von bis zu 6 µm gedruckt werden können. Die Verwendung eines geeigneten Polymerbindemittels für die GMR-Paste gewährleistet hervorragende Perkolationskontakte zwischen GMR-Mikroflocken und ermöglicht eine hohe Sensorempfindlichkeit von 3 T-1 bei einem niedrigen Magnetfeld von etwa 1 mT. Die Haftung zwischen dem gedruckten Sensor und der Polymerfolie ist ausreichend stark, um einer Biegung des Sensors auf einen Krümmungsradius von 16 µm standzuhalten, ohne die mechanische Integrität der Vorrichtung zu beeinträchtigen. Mit dieser Leistung können unsere gedruckten GMR-Sensoren für interaktive Elektronik auf der Haut verwendet werden, die wir mit einer berührungslosen Steuerung virtueller Objekte für die praktische Anwendung in tragbaren Geräten, künstlicher Prothetik, Robotik und im Internet der Dinge präsentieren.
[1] D. Makarov et al., ChemPhysChem (Review) 14, 1771 (2013).
[2] D. Karnaushenko, D. Makarov et al., Adv. Mater. 24, 4518 (2012).
[3] D. Karnaushenko, D. Makarov et al., Adv. Mater. 27, 880 (2015).

Keywords: flexible electronics; printed electronics; printed magnetic field sensors

  • Invited lecture (Conferences)
    8. Dresdner Werkstoffsymposium – Innovative Werkstoffe für neue Produkte, 02.-03.06.2022, Dresden, Germany

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Publ.-Id: 32020


Nanomagnetism of Magnetoelectric Granular Thin-Film Antiferromagnets

Makarov, D.

Thin film magnetoelectric antiferromagnets (AF) have potential to revolutionize spintronics due to their inherently magnetic-field stable magnetic order and high-frequency operation. To explore their application potential, it is necessary to understand modifications of the magnetic properties of AF thin films with respect to their bulk counterparts. We will outline our developments of zero-offset anomalous Hall magnetometry [1] applied to study the physics of insulating magnetoelectric Cr2O3 antiferromagnets. The analysis of the transport data is backed up by the real space imaging of AF domain patterns using NV microscopy [2,3]. Considering grainy morphology of thin films, we address questions regarding the change of the intergranular exchange [3], criticality behavior and switching of the order parameter [1] and physics of the readout signal in α-Cr2O3 interfaced with Pt [4]. The possibility to read-out the antiferromagnetic order parameter all-electrically enabled a new recording concept of antiferromagnetic magnetoelectric random access memory (AF-MERAM) [2].
[1] T. Kosub et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 097201 (2015).
[2] T. Kosub et al., Nat. Commun. 8, 13985 (2017).
[3] P. Appel et al., Nano Lett. 19, 1682 (2019)
[4] R. Schlitz et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 112, 132401 (2018).

Keywords: magnetoelectric antiferromagnets; thin films

  • Invited lecture (Conferences)
    15th International Conference on Modern Materials and Technologies: 9th Forum on New Materials, 24.-29.06.2022, Perugia, Italy

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Publ.-Id: 32019


Advances in compliant magnetic field sensorics

Makarov, D.

The recent rapid advance and eagerness of portable consumer electronics stimulate the development of functional elements towards being lightweight, flexible, and wearable. Next generation flexible appliances aim to become fully autonomous and will require ultra-thin and flexible navigation modules, body tracking and relative position monitoring systems. Key building blocks of navigation and position tracking devices are magnetic field sensors.
Although there is a remarkable progress in the field of shapeable magnetoelectronics [1], until recently there was no technology available that can enable sensitivities to geomagnetic fields of 50 µT and, ultimately, magnetic fields of smaller than 1 µT in a mechanically compliant form factor. If available, these devices would contribute greatly to the realization of high-performance on-skin interactive electronics [2,3] and point of care applications [4,5].
Here, we will present technological platforms allowing to realize not only mechanically imperceptible electronic skins, which enable perception of the geomagnetic field (e-skin compasses) [6], but also enable sensitivities down to ultra-small fields of sub-50 nT [7]. We demonstrate that e-skin compasses allow humans to orient with respect to earth’s magnetic field ubiquitously. Furthermore, biomagnetic orientation enables novel interactive devices for virtual and augmented reality applications. We showcase this by realizing touchless control of virtual units in a game engine using omnidirectional magnetosensitive skins (fig. 1). This concept was further extended by demonstrating a compliant magnetic microelectromechanical platform (m-MEMS), which is able to transduce both tactile (via mechanical pressure) and touchless (via magnetic field) stimulations simultaneously and discriminate them in real time [8]. Those devices are crucial for interactive electronics, human-machine interfaces, but also for the realization of smart soft robotics with highly compliant integrated feedback system as well as in medicine for physicians and surgeons.

[1] D. Makarov et al., Applied Physics Reviews 3 (2016), 011101.
[2] G. S. Canon Bermudez et al., Science Advances 4 (2018), eaao2623.
[3] M. Melzer et al., Nature Communications 6 (2015), 6080.
[4] G. Lin et al., Lab Chip 14 (2014), 4050.
[5] G. Lin et al., Lab Chip 17 (2017), 1884.
[6] G. S. Canon Bermudez et al., Nature Electronics 1 (2018), 589.
[7] P. N. Granell et al., npj Flexible Electronics 3 (2019), 3.
[8] J. Ge et al., Nature Communications (2019). doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12303-5

Keywords: flexible electronics; shapeable magnetoelectronics

  • Invited lecture (Conferences)
    IEEE Advances in Magnetics 2020, 14.06.2021, Moena, Italy

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Publ.-Id: 32018


Compliant magnetic sensor technologies

Makarov, D.

We will review the recent progress in the field of shapeable magnetoelectronics [1] allowing to realize not only mechanically imperceptible electronic skins [2-4], which enable perception of the geomagnetic field (e-skin compasses) [5], but also enable sensitivities down to ultra-small fields of sub-50 nT [6]. We demonstrate that e-skin compasses allow humans to orient with respect to earth’s magnetic field ubiquitously. The biomagnetic orientation enables novel interactive devices for virtual and augmented reality applications, which is showcased by realizing touchless control of virtual units in a game engine using omnidirectional magnetosensitive skins. This concept was further extended by demonstrating a compliant magnetic microelectromechanical platform (m-MEMS), which is able to transduce both tactile (via mechanical pressure) and touchless (via magnetic field) stimulations simultaneously and discriminate them in real time [7]. Those devices are crucial for interactive electronics, human-machine interfaces, but also for the realization of smart soft robotics with highly compliant integrated feedback system as well as in medicine for physicians and surgeons
[1] D. Makarov et al., Applied Physics Reviews (Review) 3, 011101 (2016).
[2] M. Melzer, DM et al., J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. (Review) 53, 083002 (2020).
[3] S. Canon, DM et al., Science Advances 4, eaao2623 (2018).
[4] M. Melzer, DM et al., Nature Communications 6, 6080 (2015).
[5] S. Canon, DM et al., Nature Electronics 1, 589 (2018).
[6] P.N. Granell, DM et al., npj Flexible Electronics 3, 3 (2019).
[7] J. Ge, DM et al., Nature Communications 10, 4405 (2019).

Keywords: flexible electronics; shapeable magnetoelectronics

  • Invited lecture (Conferences) (Online presentation)
    8th International Symposium on Sensor Science, 21.05.2021, Dresden, Germany

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Publ.-Id: 32017


Flexible Electronics: From Interactive Smart Skins to In vivo Applications

Makarov, D.

The portable consumer electronics necessitates functional elements to be lightweight, flexible, and wearable [1-4]. The unique possibility to adjust the shape of the devices offered by this alternative formulation of the electronics provides vast advantages over the conventional rigid devices particularly in medicine and consumer electronics. There is already a remarkable number of available flexible devices starting from interconnects, sensing elements towards complex platforms consisting of communication and diagnostic components.
We developed shapeable magnetoelectronics [5] – namely, flexible [6-8], printable [9,10], stretchable [11,12] and even imperceptible [13] magnetosensitive large area elements, which were completely missing in the family of flexible electronics. The unique mechanical properties open up new application potentials for smart skins, allowing to equip the recipient with a “sixth sense” providing new experiences in sensing and manipulating the objects of the surrounding us physical as well as digital world [7,13]. On the other hand, we realized self-assembled compact tubular microchannels based on strain engineering [14] with integrated passive sensory elements [15-17] and communication antenna devices [18] for on-chip and bio-medical applications, e.g. smart implants [19,20].
Combining these two research directions carried out at different length scales into a single truly interdisciplinary topic opens up the novel field of smart biomimetics [20]. In this respect, we demonstrated mechanically and electrically active compact biomimetic microelectronics, which can serve as a base for realization of novel regenerative neuronal cuff implants with unmatched functionalities. The biomimetic microelectronics can mechanically adapt to and impact the environment possessing the possibility to assess, adopt and communicate the environmental changes and even stimulate the environment electrically.
In my talk, these recent developments will be covered.

[1] M. G. Lagally, MRS Bull., 32, 57 (2007).
[2] J. A. Rogers et al., Nature, 477, 45 (2011).
[3] S. Bauer et al., Adv. Mater., 26, 149 (2014).
[4] M. Kaltenbrunner et al., Nature, 499, 458 (2013).
[5] D. Makarov et al., Appl. Phys. Rev., 3, 011101 (2016).
[6] G. Lin, D. Makarov et al., Lab Chip, 14, 4050 (2014).
[7] M. Melzer, D. Makarov et al., Adv. Mater., 27, 1274 (2015).
[8] N. Münzenrieder, D. Makarov et al., Adv. Electron. Mater., 2, 1600188 (2016).
[9] D. Karnaushenko, D. Makarov et al., Adv. Mater., 27, 880 (2015).
[10] D. Karnaushenko, D. Makarov et al., Adv. Mater., 24, 4518 (2012).
[11] M. Melzer, D. Makarov et al., Adv. Mater., 27, 1333 (2015).
[12] M. Melzer, D. Makarov et al., Nano Lett., 11, 2522 (2011).
[13] M. Melzer, D. Makarov et al., Nat. Commun., 6, 6080 (2015).
[14] O. G. Schmidt et al., Nature, 410, 168 (2001).
[15] I. Mönch, D. Makarov et al., ACS Nano, 5, 7436 (2011).
[16] C. Müller, D. Makarov et al., Appl. Phys. Lett., 100, 022409 (2012).
[17] E. J. Smith, D. Makarov et al., Lab Chip, 12, 1917 (2012).
[18] D. D. Karnaushenko, D. Makarov et al., NPG Asia Materials, 7, e188 (2015).
[19] D. Karnaushenko, D. Makarov et al., Adv. Mater., 27, 6582 (2015).
[20] D. Karnaushenko, D. Makarov et al., Adv. Mater., 27, 6797 (2015).

Keywords: flexible electronics; shapeable magnetoelectronics

  • Invited lecture (Conferences)
    The International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films, 26.04.2021, San Diego, USA

Permalink: https://www.hzdr.de/publications/Publ-32016
Publ.-Id: 32016


Curvilinear magnetism: geometrically curved ferro- and antiferromagnets

Makarov, D.

The main origin of the chiral symmetry breaking in magnetic materials is associated with the intrinsic Dzaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). At present, tailoring of DMI is done rather conventionally by optimizing materials, either doping a bulk single crystal or adjusting interface properties of thin films and multilayers. A viable alternative to the conventional material screening approach can be the exploration of the interplay between geometry and topology. The research field in magnetism, which is dealing with the study of the impact of geometrical curvature on magnetic responses of curved 1D wires and 2D shells is known as curvilinear magnetism [1]. The perspective of the development of curvilinear magnetism is outlined in the 2017 and 2020 Magnetism Roadmaps [2,3]. In this presentation, we will discuss on the recent achievements in the field and address the following topics:

A fully 3D approach to treat curvilinear effects in ferromagnetic nanowires and thin shells of arbitrary shape is established by Gaididei et al. back in 2014 [4] and was recently extended by Sheka et al. [5] to properly account for effects of non-locality due to the presence of long-range magnetostatic interaction. Volkov et al. has proven that the exchange-driven chiral effects in curvilinear ferromagnets are experimental observables [6] and can be used to realize nanostructures with tunable magnetochiral properties from standard magnetic materials.
In contrast to the intrinsic DMI, a concept of mesoscale Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction was put forth, which is a result of the interplay between the intrinsic (spin-orbit-driven) and extrinsic (curvature-driven) DMI terms [7]. The mesoscale DMI governs the magnetochiral properties of any curvilinear ferromagnetic nanosystem and depends both on the material and geometrical parameters. Its strength and orientation can be tailored by properly choosing the geometry, which allows stabilizing distinct magnetic chiral textures including skyrmion and skyrmionium states as well as skyrmion lattices [8-10]. Interestingly, skyrmion states can be formed in a material even without an intrinsic DMI [8,10].
Sheka et al. [5] discovered a novel non-local chiral symmetry breaking effect, which does not exist in planar magnets: it is essentially non-local and manifests itself even in static spin textures living in curvilinear magnetic nanoshells. To identify this new interaction, a generalized micromagnetic theory of curvilinear ferromagnets was constructed accounting for local and nonlocal effects. The curvature leads to the emergence of the new magnetostatic charge, the geometrical charge, determined by the local characteristics of the surface. This newcomer is responsible for the appearance of novel fundamental chiral symmetry breaking effect.
The field of curvilinear magnetism was recently extended towards curvilinear antiferromagnets. Pylypovskyi et al. [11] demonstrated that intrinsically achiral one-dimensional curvilinear antiferromagnet behaves as a chiral helimagnet with geometrically tunable DMI, orientation of the Neel vector and the helimagnetic phase transition. This positions curvilinear antiferromagnets as a novel platform for the realization of geometrically tunable chiral antiferromagnets for antiferromagnetic spinorbitronics.

[1] Streubel et al., J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 49, 363001 (2016).
[2] Sander et al., J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 50, 363001 (2017).
[3] Vedmedenko et al., J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 53, 453001 (2020).
[4] Gaididei et al., PRL 112, 257203 (2014).
[5] Sheka et al., Communications Physics 3, 128 (2020).
[6] Volkov et al., PRL 123, 077201 (2019).
[7] Volkov et al., Scientific Reports 8, 866 (2018).
[8] Kravchuk et al., PRB 94, 144402 (2016).
[9] Kravchuk et al., PRL 120, 067201 (2018).
[10] Pylypovskyi et al., Phys. Rev. Appl. 10, 064057 (2018).
[11] Pylypovskyi et al., Nano Letters (2020). doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c03246.

Keywords: curvilinear magnetism; shapeable magnetoelectronics

  • Invited lecture (Conferences) (Online presentation)
    MRS Spring Meeting, 21.04.2021, Seattle, USA

Permalink: https://www.hzdr.de/publications/Publ-32015
Publ.-Id: 32015


Mechanically shapeable magnetic field sensor technologies

Makarov, D.

Extending 2D structures into 3D space has become a general trend in multiple disciplines, including electronics, photonics, plasmonics and magnetics. This approach provides means to modify conventional or to launch novel functionalities by tailoring curvature and 3D shape. We study fundamentals of 3D curved magnetic thin films [1] and explore their application potential for flexible electronics, eMobility and health. For these applications, we developed a technology platform known as shapeable magnetoelectronics [2], which relies on a smart combination of ultrathin polymeric foils and metallic thin films featuring magnetoresistive and Hall effects. The mechanically compliant magnetic field sensors are designed and fabricated to address the specific needs of different applications including automotive (monitoring and control of electrical machines and drives) [3-5], biosensing technologies (flexible microfluidic devices) [6,7], consumer electronics (interactive printed electronics) [8,9], orientation in space [10] as well as virtual and augmented reality devices (motion tracking and touchless human-machine interaction) [10-13].
In this presentation, we will review the approaches to fabricate mechanically shapeable magnetic field sensors as well as their magnetoresistive and mechanical performance. On the application side, we will focus on the demonstration of the shapeable sensor devices for the emerging technological fields of smart skins, soft robotics and human-machine interfaces.

[1] R. Streubel, D. Makarov et al.: Magnetism in curved geometries. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (Topical Review) 49, 363001 (2016).
[2] D. Makarov et al.: Shapeable magnetoelectronics. Applied Physics Reviews 3, 011101 (2016).
[3] M. Melzer, D. Makarov et al.: Wearable magnetic field sensors for flexible electronics. Advanced Materials 27, 1274 (2015).
[4] D. Ernst, D. Makarov et al.: Packaging technologies for (ultra-)thin sensor applications in active magnetic bearings. IEEE Proceedings of the 37th International Spring Seminar on Electronics Technology (ISSE), pp. 125-129 (2014). doi:10.1109/ISSE.2014.6887577
[5] I.J. Mönch, D. Makarov et al.: Flexible Hall sensorics for flux based control of magnetic levitation. IEEE Trans. Magn. 51, 4004004 (2015).
[6] G. Lin, D. Makarov et al.: Magnetic sensing platform technologies for biomedical applications. Lab Chip 17, 1884 (2017).
[7] G. Lin, D. Makarov et al.: A highly flexible and compact magnetoresistive analytic device. Lab Chip 14, 4050 (2014).
[8] D. Makarov et al.: Printable magnetoelectronics. ChemPhysChem 14, 1771 (2013).
[9] D. Karnaushenko, D. Makarov et al.: High-performance magnetic sensorics for printable and flexible electronics. Advanced Materials 27, 880 (2015).
[10] G. S. Cañón Bermúdez, D. Makarov et al.: Electronic-skin compasses for geomagnetic field driven artificial magnetoception and interactive electronics. Nature Electronics 1, 589 (2018).
[11] G. S. Cañón Bermúdez, D. Makarov et al.: Magnetosensitive e-skins with directional perception for augmented reality. Science Advances 4, eaao2623 (2018).
[12] J. Ge, D. Makarov et al.: A bimodal soft electronic skin for tactile and touchless interaction in real time. Nature Communications 10, 4405 (2019).
[13] P. N. Granell, D. Makarov et al.: Highly compliant planar Hall effect sensor with sub 200 nT sensitivity. npj Flexible Electronics 3, 3 (2019).

Keywords: flexible electronics; shapeable magnetoelectronics

  • Invited lecture (Conferences)
    27. NDVaK - Sensorik auf polymeren Oberflächen, 17.03.2021, Dresden, Germany

Permalink: https://www.hzdr.de/publications/Publ-32014
Publ.-Id: 32014


Artificial magnetoception enabled by wearable magnetic field sensors

Makarov, D.

In this talk I will review our activities on the realization of magnetoceptive smart skins.

Keywords: flexible electronics; shapeable magnetoelectronics

  • Lecture (others) (Online presentation)
    Seminar at the Technical University of Chemnitz, 27.01.2021, Chemnitz, Germany

Permalink: https://www.hzdr.de/publications/Publ-32013
Publ.-Id: 32013


Curvilinear magnetism: From curvature induced magnetochirality to shapeable magnetoelectronics

Makarov, D.

Non-collinear magnetic textures like spin spirals, chiral domain walls or skyrmions are typically stabilized by the intrinsic spin-orbit induced Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) [1]. Curvature effects emerged as a novel mean to design chiral magnetic responses relying on extrinsic parameters, i.e. geometrical curvature of thin films [2-4]. The lack of an inversion symmetry and the emergence of a curvature induced effective anisotropy and DMI are characteristic of curved surfaces, leading to curvature-driven magnetochiral effects and topologically induced magnetization patterning [5-7]. Vast majority of activities are dedicated to curved ferromagnets, where recent achievements include the development of the theory of curvilinear micromagnetism [3] and the first experimental confirmation of curvature-driven chiral effects stemming from the exchange interaction [4]. Only very recently, the focus was put also on curvilinear antiferromagnets. Pylypovskyi et al. [8] demonstrated that intrinsically achiral one-dimensional curvilinear antiferromagnets behave as a chiral helimagnet with geometrically tunable DMI and orientation of the Neel vector.
The application potential of 3D-shaped magnetic thin films is currently being explored as mechanically shapeable magnetic field sensors [9] for automotive applications, magnetoelectrics for memory devices, spin-wave filters, high-speed racetrack memory devices as well as on-skin interactive electronics [10-12].
The fundamentals as well as application relevant aspects of curvilinear ferro- and antiferromagnets will be covered in this presentation.

References

[1] D. Sander, DM et al., J. Phys. D 50, 363001 (2017)
[2] R. Streubel, DM et al., J. Phys. D 49, 363001 (2016)
[3] D. Sheka, DM et al., Communications Physics 3, 128 (2020)
[4] O. M. Volkov, DM et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 077201 (2019)
[5] V. Kravchuk, DM et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 067201 (2018)
[6] O. Pylypovskyi, DM et al., Phys. Rev. Appl. 10, 064057 (2018)
[7] O. Pylypovskyi, DM et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 197204 (2015)
[8] O.Pylypovskyi, DM et al., Nano Lett. (2020) doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c03246
[9] D. Makarov et al., Appl. Phys. Rev. 3, 011101 (2016)
[10] S. Canon Bermudez, DM et al., Science Advances 4, eaao2623 (2018)
[11] S. Canon Bermudez, DM et al., Nature Electronics 1, 589 (2018)
[12] J. Ge, DM et al., Nature Communications 10, 4405 (2019).

Keywords: curvilinear magnetism; shapeable magnetoelectronics

  • Invited lecture (Conferences) (Online presentation)
    736. WE-Heraeus-Seminar "Magnetism at the Nanoscale: Imaging ‐ Fabrication – Physics", 06.01.2021, Bad Honnef, Germany

Permalink: https://www.hzdr.de/publications/Publ-32012
Publ.-Id: 32012


Implantable Highly Compliant Devices for Heating of Internal Organs

Makarov, D.

Recent advances in the field of flexible electronics have opened the door for this technology to deeply impact the health care sector. The development of sensors and actuators which are lightweight and mechanically compliant enables them to be used for continuous health monitoring, on-site therapies or soft chirurgical ads. The key feature of these novel gadgets is their ability to provide targeted treatment and diagnosis without constraining the natural motion of the body or its internal organs.
Though many of these flexible diagnostic or therapeutic devices have been successfully demonstrated already, cancer treatment remains relatively unexplored in this field. In particular, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC, liver cancer) is one of the leading causes of cancer related mortalities worldwide with a constantly growing incidence. Numerous efforts have been devoted to the development of targeted cancer treatments which selectively destroy cancer cells and spare the healthy tissue.
We propose and develop an implantable, multifunctional and highly compliant device for targeted thermal treatment of cancerous tissues [1]. The device is fabricated on a 6-µm-thick polymeric foil, which seamlessly conforms to the soft liver tissue and allows for precisely controlled joule heating without on-site rigid parts. Its high mechanical compliance provides stable readings even upon severe mechanical deformations, enabling temperature accuracies of 0.1°C at bending radii of 2.5 mm, characteristic for mouse liver tissues. This heating device can treat tissue over the whole range of temperatures leading to fever, hyperthermia and ablation, while using a driving current as low as 10 mA. We demonstrate the electro-thermal and mechanical characterization of the devices and study various heat impact scenarios on normal and cancerous tissue using autochthonous murine HCC models.
Due to their high mechanical compliance, stability and thermal treatment versatility, the here developed devices can become a complement or alternative solution to radio frequency ablation (RFA) techniques for cancer treatment.

[1] G. S. Cãnón Bermudez, A. Kruv, T. Voitsekhivska, I. Hochnadel, A. Lebanov, A. Potthoff, J. Fassbender, T. Yevsa, and D. Makarov, “Implantable Highly Compliant Devices for Heating of Internal Organs: Toward Cancer Treatment”. Adv. Eng. Mater. 21, 1900407 (2019).

Keywords: flexible electronics; cancer treatment

  • Invited lecture (Conferences) (Online presentation)
    International Conference on Advances in Biological Science and Technology (ICABST2020), 28.10.2020, Sanya, China

Permalink: https://www.hzdr.de/publications/Publ-32011
Publ.-Id: 32011


Flexible magnetic field sensors

Makarov, D.

Extending 2D structures into 3D space has become a general trend in multiple disciplines, including electronics, photonics, plasmonics and magnetics. This approach provides means to modify conventional or to launch novel functionalities by tailoring curvature and 3D shape. We study fundamentals of 3D curved magnetic thin films [1] and explore their application potential for flexible electronics, eMobility and health. We put forth the concept of shapeable magnetoelectronics [2] for various applications ranging from automotive [3-5] through consumer electronics to virtual and augmented reality [6-9] applications. These activities impact several emerging research fields of smart skins, soft robotics and human-machine interfaces. In this talk, recent fundamental and technological advancements in this research field will be reviewed.

[1] R. Streubel, D. Makarov et al., J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. (Review) 49, 363001 (2016).
[2] D. Makarov et al., Appl. Phys. Rev. (Review) 3, 011101 (2016).
[3] M. Melzer, D. Makarov et al., Adv. Mater. 27, 1274 (2015).
[4] I. J. Mönch, D. Makarov et al., IEEE Trans. Magn. 51, 4004004 (2015).
[5] D. Ernst, D. Makarov et al., IEEE Proceedings of the 37th International Spring Seminar on Electronics Technology (ISSE), pp. 125-129 (2014). doi:10.1109/ISSE.2014.6887577
[6] G. S. Cañón Bermúdez, D. Makarov et al., Science Advances 4, eaao2623 (2018).
[7] G. S. Cañón Bermúdez, D. Makarov et al., Nature Electronics 1, 589 (2018).
[8] P. N. Granell, D. Makarov et al., npj Flexible Electronics 3, 3 (2019).
[9] J. Ge, D. Makarov et al., Nature Communications 10, 4405 (2019).

Keywords: flexible electronics; shapeable magnetoelectronics

  • Invited lecture (Conferences) (Online presentation)
    MSM2020: 15th International Conference Mechatronic Systems and Materials, 01.07.2020, Bialystok, Poland

Permalink: https://www.hzdr.de/publications/Publ-32010
Publ.-Id: 32010


Mechanically compliant magnetic field sensor technologies

Makarov, D.

Extending 2D structures into 3D space has become a general trend in multiple disciplines including electronics, photonics, and magnetics. This approach provides means to enrich conventional or to launch novel functionalities by tailoring curvature and 3D shape. We study 3D curved magnetic thin films and nanowires where new fundamental effects emerge from the interplay of the geometry of an object and topology of a magnetic sub-system [1-3]. On the other hand, we explore the application potential of 3D magnetic architectures for the realization of mechanically shapeable magnetoelectronics [4] for automotive but also virtual and augmented reality appliances [5-7]. In this respect, we will present technological platforms allowing to realize not only mechanically imperceptible electronic skins, which enable perception of the geomagnetic field (e-skin compasses) [6], but also enable sensitivities down to ultra-small fields of sub-200 nT [8]. We demonstrate that e-skin compasses allow humans to orient with respect to earth’s magnetic field ubiquitously. Furthermore, biomagnetic orientation enables novel interactive devices for virtual and augmented reality applications. We showcase this by realizing touchless control of virtual units in a game engine using omnidirectional magnetosensitive skins. This concept was further extended by demonstrating a compliant magnetic microelectromechanical platform (m-MEMS), which is able to transduce both tactile (via mechanical pressure) and touchless (via magnetic field) stimulations simultaneously and discriminate them in real time [7]. Those devices are crucial for interactive electronics, human-machine interfaces, but also for the realization of smart soft robotics with highly compliant integrated feedback system as well as in medicine for physicians and surgeons. In this talk, recent fundamental and technological advancements in this novel research field will be reviewed.

[1] R. Streubel, DM et al., Magnetism in curved geometries. J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. (Review) 49, 363001 (2016).
[2] D. Sander, DM et al., The 2017 magnetism roadmap. J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. (Review) 50, 363001 (2017).
[3] O. M. Volkov, DM et al., Experimental observation of exchange-driven chiral effects in curvilinear magnetism. Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 077201 (2019).
[4] D. Makarov et al., Shapeable magnetoelectronics. Appl. Phys. Rev. (Review) 3, 011101 (2016).
[5] G. S. Cañón Bermúdez, DM et al., Magnetosensitive e-skins with directional perception for augmented reality. Science Advances 4, eaao2623 (2018).
[6] G. S. Cañón Bermúdez, DM et al., Electronic-skin compasses for geomagnetic field driven artificial magnetoception and interactive electronics. Nature Electronics 1, 589 (2018).
[7] J. Ge, DM et al., A bimodal soft electronic skin for tactile and touchless interaction in real time. Nature Communications 10, 4405 (2019).
[8] P. Granell, DM et al., Highly compliant planar Hall effect sensor with sub 200 nT sensitivity. npj Flexible Electronics 3, 3 (2019).

Keywords: flexible electronics; shapeable magnetoelectronics

  • Lecture (others) (Online presentation)
    Seminar at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 13.10.2020, Karlsruhe, Germany

Permalink: https://www.hzdr.de/publications/Publ-32009
Publ.-Id: 32009


From curvilinear magnetism to shapeable magnetoelectronics

Makarov, D.

Extending 2D structures into 3D space has become a general trend in multiple disciplines including electronics, photonics, and magnetics. This approach provides means to enrich conventional or to launch novel functionalities by tailoring curvature and 3D shape. We study 3D curved magnetic thin films and nanowires where new fundamental effects emerge from the interplay of the geometry of an object and topology of a magnetic sub-system [1-4]. On the other hand, we explore the application potential of 3D magnetic architectures for the realization of mechanically shapeable magnetoelectronics [5] for automotive but also virtual and augmented reality appliances [6-8]. In this respect, we will present technological platforms allowing to realize not only mechanically imperceptible electronic skins, which enable perception of the geomagnetic field (e-skin compasses) [7], but also enable sensitivities down to ultra-small fields of sub-200 nT [9]. We demonstrate that e-skin compasses allow humans to orient with respect to earth’s magnetic field ubiquitously. Furthermore, biomagnetic orientation enables novel interactive devices for virtual and augmented reality applications. We showcase this by realizing touchless control of virtual units in a game engine using omnidirectional magnetosensitive skins. This concept was further extended by demonstrating a compliant magnetic microelectromechanical platform (m-MEMS), which is able to transduce both tactile (via mechanical pressure) and touchless (via magnetic field) stimulations simultaneously and discriminate them in real time [8]. Those devices are crucial for interactive electronics, human-machine interfaces, but also for the realization of smart soft robotics with highly compliant integrated feedback system as well as in medicine for physicians and surgeons. In this talk, recent fundamental and technological advancements in this novel research field will be reviewed.

[1] R. Streubel, DM et al., Magnetism in curved geometries. J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. (Review) 49, 363001 (2016).
[2] D. Sander, DM et al., The 2017 magnetism roadmap. J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. (Review) 50, 363001 (2017).
[3] O. M. Volkov, DM et al., Experimental observation of exchange-driven chiral effects in curvilinear magnetism. Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 077201 (2019).
[4] V. P. Kravchuk, DM et al., Multiplet of Skyrmion states on a curvilinear defect: Reconfigurable Skyrmion lattices. Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 067201 (2018).
[5] D. Makarov et al., Shapeable magnetoelectronics. Appl. Phys. Rev. (Review) 3, 011101 (2016).
[6] G. S. Cañón Bermúdez, DM et al., Magnetosensitive e-skins with directional perception for augmented reality. Science Advances 4, eaao2623 (2018).
[7] G. S. Cañón Bermúdez, DM et al., Electronic-skin compasses for geomagnetic field driven artificial magnetoception and interactive electronics. Nature Electronics 1, 589 (2018).
[8] J. Ge, DM et al., A bimodal soft electronic skin for tactile and touchless interaction in real time. Nature Communications 10, 4405 (2019).
[9] P. Granell, DM et al., Highly compliant planar Hall effect sensor with sub 200 nT sensitivity. npj Flexible Electronics 3, 3 (2019).

Keywords: curvilinear magnetism; shapeable magnetoelectronics

  • Lecture (others)
    Seminar at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, 12.08.2020, Linz, Austria

Permalink: https://www.hzdr.de/publications/Publ-32008
Publ.-Id: 32008


Curvilinear Magnetism: Fundamentals and Applications

Makarov, D.

There is one aspect, which is in common to the majority of fundamentally appealing and technologically relevant novel magnetic materials, namely their non-collinear magnetic textures like spin spirals, chiral domain walls or skyrmions [1]. These textures are typically driven by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI). Recently, curvature effects emerged as a novel mean to design chiral magnetic properties by relying on extrinsic parameters, e.g. geometry of thin films [2]. In particular, novel effects occur when the magnetization is modulated by curvature leading to new magnetization configurations and is implications on the spin dynamics due to topological constraints. Advances in this novel field solely rely on the understanding of the fundamentals behind the modifications of magnetic responses of 3D-curved magnetic thin films [3-5] and nanowires [6,7]. The lack of an inversion symmetry and the emergence of a curvature induced effective anisotropy and DMI are characteristic of curved surfaces, leading to curvature-driven magnetochiral effects and topologically induced magnetization patterning [8,9]. The application potential of 3D-shaped objects is currently being explored as mechanically reshapeable magnetic field sensorics [10] for flexible interactive electronics [11-13], magnetic field sensors [14-18], curvilinear magnetoelectrics for memory devices [19], spin-wave filters and high-speed racetrack memory devices [20]. To advance in this research field, novel theoretical methods and fabrication/characterization techniques [21-24]. The fundamentals as well as application relevant aspects of curvilinear nanomagnets will be covered in this presentation.

[1] D. Sander, DM et al., “The 2017 Magnetism Roadmap”, J. Phys. D 50, 363001 (2017).
[2] R. Streubel, DM et al., “Magnetism in curved geometries”, J. Phys. D 49, 363001 (2016).
[3] Y. Gaididei et al., “Curvature Effects in Thin Magnetic Shells”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 257203 (2014).
[4] V. Kravchuk, DM et al., “Multiplet of Skyrmion States on a Curvilinear Defect: Reconfigurable Skyrmion Lattices”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 067201 (2018).
[5] O. V. Pylypovskyi, DM et al., “Chiral Skyrmion and Skyrmionium States Engineered by the Gradient of Curvature”, Phys. Rev. Appl. 10, 064057 (2018).
[6] O. M. Volkov, DM et al., “Mesoscale Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction: geometrical tailoring of the magnetochirality”, Scientific Reports 8, 866 (2018).
[7] O. M. Volkov, DM et al., “Experimental observation of exchange-driven chiral effects in curvilinear magnetism”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 077201 (2019).
[8] O. V. Pylypovskyi, DM et al., “Coupling of Chiralities in Spin and Physical Spaces: The Möbius Ring as a Case Study”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 197204 (2015).
[9] J. A. Otalora et al., “Curvature-Induced Asymmetric Spin-Wave Dispersion”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 227203 (2016).
[10] D. Makarov et al., “Shapeable magnetoelectronics”, Appl. Phys. Rev. 3, 011101 (2016).
[11] S. Canon Bermudez, DM et al., “Magnetosensitive e-skins with directional perception for augmented reality”, Science Advances 4, eaao2623 (2018).
[12] S. Canon Bermudez, DM et al., “Electronic-skin compasses for geomagnetic field driven artificial magnetoreception and interactive electronics”, Nature Electronics 1, 589 (2018).
[13] J. Ge, DM et al., “A bimodal soft electronic skin for tactile and touchless interaction in real time”, Nature Comm. 10, 4405 (2019).
[14] D. Karnaushenko, DM et al., “Self-assemled on-chip integrated giant magneto-impedance sensorics”, Adv. Mater. 27, 6582 (2015).
[15] G. Lin, DM et al., “A highly flexible and compact magnetoresistive analytic device”, Lab Chip 14, 4050 (2014).
[16] N. Münzenrieder, DM et al., “Entirely flexible on-site conditioned magnetic sensorics”, Adv. Electron. Mater. 2, 1600188 (2016).
[17] C. Becker et al., “Self-assembly of highly sensitive 3D magnetic field vector angular encoders”, Science Advances 5, eaay7459 (2019).
[18] M. Kondo et al., “Imperceptible magnetic sensor matrix system integrated with organic driver and amplifier circuits”, Science Advances 6, eaay6094 (2020)
[19] O. M. Volkov, DM et al., “Concept of artificial magnetoelectric materials via geometrically controlling curvilinear helimagnets”, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 52, 345001 (2019).
[20] M. Yan et al., “Beating the Walker Limit with Massless Domain Walls in Cylindrical Nanowires”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 057201 (2010).
[21] R. Streubel, DM et al., “Retrieving spin textures on curved magnetic thin films with full-field soft X-ray microscopies”, Nature Comm. 6, 7612 (2015).
[22] T. Kosub, DM et al., “Purely antiferromagnetic magnetoelectric random access memory”, Nature Comm. 8, 13985 (2017).
[23] M. Huth et al., “Focused electron beam induced deposition meets materials science”, Microelectron. Engineering 185-186, 9 (2018).
[24] M. Nord, DM et al., “Strain Anisotropy and Magnetic Domains in Embedded Nanomagnets”, Small 15, 1904738 (2019).

Keywords: curvilinear magnetism; shapeable magnetoelectronics

  • Invited lecture (Conferences) (Online presentation)
    The 2020 Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference, 04.11.2020, Palm Beach, USA

Permalink: https://www.hzdr.de/publications/Publ-32007
Publ.-Id: 32007


Overview of recent advances in flexible highly compliant magnetoelectronics

Makarov, D.

Recent rapid advances and eagerness of portable consumer electronics stimulate the development of functional elements towards being lightweight, flexible, and wearable. Next generation flexible appliances aim to become fully autonomous and will require ultra-thin and flexible navigation modules, body tracking and relative position monitoring systems. Key building blocks of navigation and position tracking devices are magnetic field sensors. In this presentation, recent developments in the emerging field of flexible magnetic field sensorics and its applications in printed electronics, eMobility, virtual and augmented reality settings will be reviewed.

Keywords: flexible electronics; shapeable magnetoelectronics

  • Invited lecture (Conferences) (Online presentation)
    2020 IEEE Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing Conference (EDTM), 06.04.2020, Penang, Malaysia

Permalink: https://www.hzdr.de/publications/Publ-32006
Publ.-Id: 32006


Electronic materials with nanoscale curved geometries

Gentile, P.; Cuoco, M.; Ying, Z.; Volkov, O.; Vera-Marun, I. J.; Makarov, D.; Ortix, C.

As the dimensions of a material shrink from an extended bulk solid to a nanoscale structure, size and quantum confinement effects become dominant, altering the properties of the material. Materials with nanoscale curved geometries, such as rolled-up nanomembranes and zigzag-shaped nanowires, have recently been found to exhibit a number of intriguing electronic and magnetic properties due to shape-driven modifications of charge motion or confinement effects. Local strain generated by curvature can also lead to changes in material properties due to electromechanical coupling. Here we review the development of electronic materials with nanoscale curved geometries. We examine the origin of shape-, confinement- and strain-induced effects and explore how to exploit these in electronic, spintronic and superconducting devices. We also consider the methods required to synthesize and characterize curvilinear nanostructures, and highlight key areas for the future development of curved electronics.

Keywords: curvature effects; curvilinear magnetism; shapeable magnetoelectronics

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Publ.-Id: 32005


Magnetosensitive e-skins for interactive devices

Canon Bermudez, G. S.; Makarov, D.

The growth of electronics and computer science in the last years has brought humans and machines closer than ever before. As this trend continues, new kinds of human-machine interactions are needed in a hyperconnected world. A key element for these interactions is flexible electronics, which attempts to seamlessly link living and artificial entities using electronic skins (e-skins). E-skins merge the functionality of standard electronics with the soft, stretchable, and biocompatible qualities of human skin or tissue. So far, the focus has been to reproduce the traditional functions associated with human skin, such as, temperature, pressure, and chemical detection. New developments have also introduced nonstandard sensing capabilities like magnetic field detection, to give birth to the field of magnetosensitive e-skins. Adding a supplementary information channel—an electronic sixth sense—could trigger new applications in the fields of cognitive psychology and human-machine interactions. Here, we review recent advances in magnetosensitive e-skins, which utilize the full interaction potential of the magnetic field vector to detect position, orientation, and mechanical stimuli. These magnetosensitive e-skins open exciting possibilities for touchless and gestural control in virtual and augmented reality, sensory substitution, and multimodal sensing; beyond the limitations of optics-based systems.

Keywords: flexible electronics; interactive electronics; magnetosensitive smart skins

Permalink: https://www.hzdr.de/publications/Publ-32004
Publ.-Id: 32004


Local and nonlocal spin Seebeck effect in lateral Pt-Cr2O3-Pt devices at low temperatures

Muduli, P.; Schlitz, R.; Kosub, T.; Hübner, R.; Erbe, A.; Makarov, D.; Goennenwein, S. T. B.

We have studied thermally driven magnon spin transport (spin Seebeck e_ect, SSE) in heterostructures of antiferromagnetic Cr2O3 and Pt at low temperatures. Monitoring the amplitude of the local and nonlocal SSE signals as a function of temperature, we found that both decrease with increasing temperature and disappear above 100 K and 20 K, respectively. Additionally, both SSE signals show a tendency to saturate at low temperatures. The nonlocal SSE signal decays exponentially for intermediate injector-detector separation, consistent with magnon spin current transport in the relaxation regime. We estimate the magnon relaxation length of our Cr2O3 films to be around 500 nm at 3 K. This short magnon relaxation length along with the strong temperature dependence of the SSE signal indicates that temperature-dependent inelastic magnon scattering processes play an important role in the intermediate range magnon transport. Our observation is relevant to low-dissipation antiferromagnetic magnon memory and logic devices involving thermal magnon generation and transport.

Keywords: spin Seebeck effect; antiferromagnetic spintronics

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Publ.-Id: 32003


Evidence of the anomalous fluctuating magnetic state by pressure driven 4f valence change in EuNiGe3

Chen, K.; Luo, C.; Baudelet, F.; Maurya, A.; Thamizhavel, A.; Rößler, U. K.; Makarov, D.; Radu, F.

In rare-earth compounds with valence fluctuation, the proximity of the 4f level to the Fermi energy leads to instabilities of the charge configuration and the magnetic moment. For Eubased valence fluctuation materials, the intra-atomic interactions, may play an important role to affect the magnetic ground state since the multielectron configurations 4f6 (Eu3+, L=3, S=3 and J=0) and 4f7 (Eu2+, L=0, S=7/2 and J=7/2) which are dominantly defining the macroscopic magnetic properties. Here, we provide direct experimental evidence for an induced magnetic polarization of the Eu3+ atomic shell with J=0, due to intra-atomic exchange and spin-orbital coupling interactions with Eu2+ atomic shell. By applying external pressure, a transition from antiferromagnetic to a fluctuating behavior in a EuNiGe3 single crystals is probed by element- and orbital-specific x-ray absorption spectroscopy and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism at Eu L2-edge. The enhanced mixing of Eu 4f and 5d electronic orbitals under pressure leads to a monotonic increase of the mean valence of Eu ions, with the onset of a thermally fluctuating state at 30 GPa. Magnetic polarization is observed for both valence states of Eu2+ and Eu3+ across the entire pressure range, with a clear occurrence of an electronic phase transition revealed by a linewidth change of the Eu3+ resonance at 30 GPa. The anomalous magnetic order is discussed in terms of a homogeneous intermediate valence state where frustrated Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya couplings are enhanced by the onset of spin-orbital interaction and engender a chiral spin-liquid-like precursor.

Keywords: fluctuating magnetic state; Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

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Publ.-Id: 32002


Micro-Bio-Chemo-Mechanical-Systems: Micromotors, Microfluidics and Nanozymes for Biomedical Applications

Mujtaba, J.; Liu, J.; Dey, K. K.; Li, T.; Chakraborty, R.; Xu, K.; Makarov, D.; Barmin, R.; Gorin, D. A.; Tolstoy, V.; Huang, G. S.; Solovev, A. A.; Mei, Y. F.

Tetherless nano/-micromotors powered by chemical reactions and/or external fields generate motive forces and perform biomedical tasks, such as delivery of cargo payloads, minimally-invasive surgery, deactivation of pathogens and isolation of cancer cells. Micromotors can significantly expand short-range dynamic responses of passive biomedical micro-carriers, however, several major challenges, including biocompatibility, biodegradability, biochemical reactions as a fuel, deep tissue imaging methods must be addressed before micromotors can be translated into clinical uses. Nanozymes are nanomaterials that display enzyme-like characteristics (e.g., catalase, oxidase, peroxidase, superoxide dismutase) and represent a potentially revolutionary way to interconnect catalytic reactions, micromotors and biological systems. Today, a convergence of nanozymes and micromotors with microfluidics can lead to a paradigm shift in the fabrication of micro/-emulsions, drops, capsules and bubbles in reasonable quantities, encapsulation of sub-systems and shell-core engineering with desired tuneable biological, physical, chemical and mechanical properties. Additional functionalization methods, such as Layer-by-Layer assembly, can be used as a basis for multimodality of micro/-bubbles and capsules with a combination of ultrasound, optoacoustic, fluorescent, magnetic resonance imaging modalities, and desired surface properties. This review aims are to discuss recent achievements, challenges, and opportunities of micromotors, nanozymes, and microfluidics, which originated as separate disciplines and currently can be combined towards development of advanced Micro-Bio-Chemo-Mechanical-Systems for diverse bio-applications.

Keywords: micromotors; Microfluidics; Biomedical Applications

Permalink: https://www.hzdr.de/publications/Publ-32001
Publ.-Id: 32001


3D Rotation-Trackable and Differentiable Micromachines with Dimer-Type Structures for Dynamic Bioanalysis

Lin, G.; Liu, Y.; Huang, G.; Chen, Y.; Makarov, D.; Lin, J.; Quan, Z.; Jin, D.

Utilizing the magnetic interactions between microparticle building blocks allows creating long‐range ordered structures and constructing smart multifunctional systems at different scales. The elaborate control over the inter‐particle magnetic coupling interaction is entailed to unlock new magnetoactuation functionalities. Herein, dimer‐type microstructures consisting of a pair of magnetic emulsions with tailorable dimension and magnetic coupling strength are fabricated using a microfluidic emulsion‐templated assembly approach. The magnetite nanoparticles dispersed in vinylbenzene monomers are partitioned into a pair of emulsions with conserved volume, which are wrapped by an aqueous hydrogel shell and finally polymerized to form discrete structures. Tunable synchronous–asynchronous rotation over 60 dB is unlocked in magnetic dimers, which is shown to be dependent on the magnetic moments induced. This leads to a new class of magnetic actuators for the parallelized assay of distinctive virus DNAs and the dynamic optical evaluation of 3D cell cultures. The work suggests a new perspective to design smart multifunctional microstructures and devices by exploring their natural variance in magnetic coupling.

Keywords: directed colloidal assembly; dynamic evaluation of 3D cell cultures; parallelized bioassay

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Publ.-Id: 32000


Coding and decoding stray magnetic fields for multiplexing kinetic bioassay platform

Liu, Y.; Lin, G.; Chen, Y.; Mönch, J. I.; Makarov, D.; Walsh, B. J.; Jin, D.

Polymer microspheres can be fluorescently-coded for multiplexing molecular analysis, but their usage has been limited by the fluorescent quenching and bleaching and crowded spectral domain with issues of cross-talks and background interference. Each bioassay step of mixing and separation of analytes and reagents require off-line particle handling procedures. Here, we report stray magnetic fields can code and decode a collection of hierarchically-assembled beads. By the microfluidic assembling of mesoscopic superparamagnetic cores, diverse and non-volatile stray magnetic field response can be built in the series of microscopic spheres, dumbbells, pears, chains and triangles. Remarkably, the set of stray magnetic field fingerprints are readily discerned by a compact giant magnetoresistance sensor for parallelised screening of multiple distinctive pathogenic DNAs. This opens up the magneto-multiplexing opportunity and could enable streamlined assays to incorporate magneto-mixing, washing, enrichment and separation of analytes.
This strategy therefore suggests a potential point-of-care testing solution for efficient kinetic assay.

Keywords: magnetic field sensor; microfluidics; bioassays

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Publ.-Id: 31999


L10 Ordered Thin Films for Spintronic and Permanent Magnet Applications

Hafarov, A.; Prokopenko, O.; Sidorenko, S.; Makarov, D.; Vladymyrskyi, I.

Materials with strong perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) are fundamentally appealing and also relevant for numerous applications especially reconsidering their practical relevance for the enhancement of the energy product for thin film based permanent magnets and realization of energy efficient and miniaturized spintronic devices. In contrast to materials exhibiting PMA due to surface anisotropy, these applications would benefit from thin films where PMA stems from a strong uniaxial magnetocrystalline anisotropy (Ku). In this regard, magnetic thin films with chemically ordered L10 structure, representing alternation of A and B atomic planes along the c direction, are considered as most promising due to the high Ku values and finely tunable magnetic properties. Typical representatives of L10 structures are ordered binary phases, e.g. FePt, FePd, MnAl, MnGa, or NiFe, etc. phases. In the case when the c axes of the L10 structure is normal to the film plane, remarkably strong PMA could can be achieved. Another important property of L10 structures is their thermodynamic stability providing resistance of corresponding devices against thermal processing. Here, we will review the application prospects of L10 ordered magnetic thin films for spintronic and permanent magnet technologies.

Keywords: L10 alloys; perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

  • Book chapter
    A. Kaidatzis, S. Sidorenko, I. Vladymyrskyi, D. Niarchos: Modern Magnetic and Spintronic Materials. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics, Dordrecht: Springer, 2020, 978-94-024-2033-3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-024-2034-0_4
    Cited 1 times in Scopus

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Publ.-Id: 31998


Influence of a low-Z thin substrate on a microwire hard x-ray source driven by a picosecond laser pulse for point-projection x-ray radiography

Meng-Ting, L.; Guang-Yue, H.; Huang, L.; Jian, Z.

In the point-projection hard x-ray radiography of dense matter, for example, an inertial confinement fusion implosion capsule at stagnation time, a picosecond laser driven gold microwire is used to produce a short pulse point, bremsstrahlung hard x-ray source. The microwire was held by a low-Z CH thin substrate commonly used to promote experimental performance. We explored the influence of the low-Z thin substrate on the microwire bremsstrahlung hard x-ray source via particle-in-cell and Monte Carlo simulations. It was shown that both of the microwires, with or without the low-Z thin substrate, could emit more intense hard x-ray radiation than the radiator buried in the equal-density substrate, which benefited from efficient electron recirculation. The freestanding microwire exhibited further enhanced electron recirculation compared to that with the low-Z thin substrate, while the increased hot electrons were only present for the energetic electrons of >1 MeV. Thus, the freestanding microwire could produce significantly more intense MeV gamma x-ray emission with respect to that with the substrate, but an ignorable increment was exhibited at the softer x-ray emission of 10–200 keV. These results provided valuable insights into the design of backlighter targets in point-projection x-ray radiography, such as a freestanding microwire being preferred in MeV gamma-ray radiography, while the microwire with the CH thin substrate could be used in the 10–200 keV hard x-ray Compton radiography of an implosion capsule.

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PIConGPU Performance and Scaling Results on Summit

Widera, R.; Bastrakov, S.; Debus, A.; Garten, M.; Pausch, R.; Steiniger, K.; Bussmann, M.; Hübl, A.

This talk present recent performance and scaling results of Particle-in-Cell code PIConGPU on the Summit supercomputer. PIConGPU is an open-source plasma simulation code for the Exascale era. It implements a wide range of core Particle-in-Cell numerical schemes and extensions, in-situ diagnostics, and high-performance I/O. Using single-source programming approach powered by alpaka library, PIConGPU runs on a variety of modern hardware, including both CPUs and GPUs. We demonstrate that it scales from a single workstation up to the full Summit supercomputer.

Keywords: Large-scale computing; Scalability; GPGPU; Plasma simulation; Particle-in-Cell

  • Lecture (Conference) (Online presentation)
    Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2020, 23.-25.03.2020, Warszawa, Polska

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Publ.-Id: 31996


Pedal to the Metal: Designing a Scalable Particle-in-Cell Code PIConGPU

Bastrakov, S.; Widera, R.; Debus, A.; Garten, M.; Pausch, R.; Steiniger, K.; Hübl, A.; Bussmann, M.

PIConGPU is an open-source Particle-in-Cell simulation code for the Exascale era. It implements a wide range of core Particle-in-Cell numerical schemes and extensions, in-situ diagnostics, and high-performance I/O. With a single source code base, PIConGPU runs on a variety of modern hardware, including both CPUs and GPUs, and scales from a single workstation up to the largest supercomputers. Following up the two recent talks concerning physical and numerical features of PIConGPU, this talk will focus on the computer science and software design aspects of the code and the underlying software stack. The talk concerns PIConGPU core data structures, typical patterns of parallel processing, and software design approach to enable efficient and scalable single-source implementation. It also presents performance and scaling results on the Summit supercomputer.

Keywords: Particle-in-Cell; plasma simulation; scalable computing; single-source programming; PIConGPU; alpaka

  • Lecture (others)
    CASUS Seminar, 01.10.2020, Görlitz, Deutschland

Permalink: https://www.hzdr.de/publications/Publ-31995
Publ.-Id: 31995


alpaka Parallel Programming - Online Tutorial

Stephan, J.; Bastrakov, S.; Widera, R.; Ehrig, S.; Bussmann, M.

Alpaka (Abstraction Library for Parallel Kernel Acceleration) provides a library and tools for programming compute accelerators on a device agnostic level. This online tutorial will give an introduction to Alpaka combined with online exercises.

Keywords: alpaka; parallel programming; accelerators; C++

  • Open Access Logo Lecture (others) (Online presentation)
    alpaka Parallel Programming - Online Tutorial, 29.06.-03.07.2020, Genf, Schweiz

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Publ.-Id: 31993


Lessons Learned Developing Frameworks with SYCL

Stephan, J.

alpaka is a header-only C++ library for developing portable high-performance programs. Much like SYCL, it aims to abstract away the differences between accelerator types and vendors. In 2019 an experimental SYCL backend was developed in order to target FPGAs. In my talk I will focus on the challenges I faced during the SYCL backend development as well as conceptual differences between SYCL and other heterogeneous programming platforms.

Keywords: SYCL; alpaka; parallel programming; C++

  • Open Access Logo Lecture (others) (Online presentation)
    SYCL Summer Sessions 2020, 31.08.-04.09.2020, London, United Kingdom

Permalink: https://www.hzdr.de/publications/Publ-31992
Publ.-Id: 31992


Synthesis and biological evaluation of a novel 18F-labeled radiotracer for PET imaging of the adenosine A2A receptor

Lai, T. H.; Toussaint, M.; Teodoro, R.; Dukic-Stefanovic, S.; Kranz, M.; Deuther-Conrad, W.; Moldovan, R.-P.; Brust, P.

The adenosine A2A receptor (A2AR) has emerged as a potential non-dopaminergic target for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and thus, the non-invasive imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) is of utmost importance to monitor the receptor expression and occupancy during an A2AR-tailored therapy. Aiming at the development of a PET radiotracer, we herein report the design of a series of novel fluorinated analogs based on the structure of the A2AR antagonist tozadenant, and the preclinical evaluation of [18F]TOZ1. Autoradiography proved A2AR-specific in vitro binding of [18F]TOZ1 to striatum of mouse and pig brain. Investigations of the metabolic stability in mice revealed parent fractions of more than 76% and 92% of total activity in plasma and brain samples, respectively. Dynamic PET/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies in mice revealed a brain uptake but no A2AR-specific in vivo binding.

Keywords: adenosine A2A receptor; fluorine-18; positron emission tomography; tozadenant

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Publ.-Id: 31991


Development of 18F-labeled radiotracers for PET imaging of the adenosine A2A receptor: Synthesis, radiolabeling and preliminary biological evaluation

Lai, T. H.; Schröder, S.; Toussaint, M.; Dukic-Stefanovic, S.; Kranz, M.; Ludwig, F.-A.; Fischer, S.; Steinbach, J.; Deuther-Conrad, W.; Brust, P.; Moldovan, R.-P.

The adenosine A2A receptor (A2AR) represents a potential therapeutic target for neurodegenerative diseases. Aiming at the development of a positron emission tomography (PET) radiotracer to monitor changes of receptor density and/or occupancy during the A2AR-tailored therapy, we designed a library of fluorinated analogs based on a recently published lead compound. Among those, the highly affine 4-fluorobenzyl derivate (PPY1; Ki(hA2AR) = 5.3 nM) and the 2-fluorobenzyl derivate (PPY2; Ki(hA2AR) = 2.1 nM) were chosen for 18F-labeling via an alcohol-enhanced copper-mediated procedure starting from the corresponding boronic acid pinacol ester precursors. Investigations of the metabolic stability of [18F]PPY1 and [18F]PPY2 in CD-1 mice by radio-HPLC analysis revealed parent fractions of more than 76% of total activity in the brain. Specific binding of [18F]PPY2 on mice brain slices was demonstrated by in vitro autoradiography. In vivo PET/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies in CD-1 mice revealed a reasonable high initial brain uptake for both radiotracers, followed by a fast clearance.

Keywords: adenosine A2A receptor; fluorine-18; positron emission tomography

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Publ.-Id: 31990


Improved in vivo PET imaging of the adenosine A2A receptor in the brain using [18F]FLUDA, a deuterated radiotracer with high metabolic stability

Lai, T. H.; Toussaint, M.; Teodoro, R.; Dukic-Stefanovic, S.; Gündel, D.; Ludwig, F.-A.; Wenzel, B.; Schröder, S.; Sattler, B.; Moldovan, R.-P.; Falkenburger, B. H.; Sabri, O.; Deuther-Conrad, W.; Brust, P.

Purpose: The adenosine A2A receptor has emerged as a therapeutic target for multiple diseases, and thus the non-invasive imaging of the expression or occupancy of the A2A receptor has potential to contribute to diagnosis and drug development. We aimed at the development of a metabolically stable A2A receptor radiotracer and report herein the preclinical evaluation of [18F]FLUDA, a deuterated isotopologue of [18F]FESCH.
Methods: [18F]FLUDA was synthesized by a two-step one-pot approach and evaluated in vitro by autoradiographic studies as well as in vivo by metabolism and dynamic PET/MRI studies in mice and piglets under baseline and blocking conditions. A single-dose toxicity study was performed in rats.
Results: [18F]FLUDA was obtained with a radiochemical yield of 19% and molar activities of 72 180 GBq/µmol. Autoradiography proved A2A receptor-specific accumulation of [18F]FLUDA in the striatum of mouse and pig brain. In vivo evaluation in mice revealed improved stability of [18F]FLUDA compared to [18F]FESCH, resulting in the absence of brain-penetrant radiometabolites. Furthermore, the radiometabolites detected in piglets are expected to have a low tendency for brain penetration. PET/MRI studies confirmed high specific binding of [18F]FLUDA towards striatal A2A receptor with a maximum specific-to-non-specific binding ratio in mice of 8.3. The toxicity study revealed no adverse effects of FLUDA up to 30 µg/kg, ~ 4000-fold the dose applied in human PET studies using [18F]FLUDA.
Conclusions: The new radiotracer [18F]FLUDA is suitable to detect the availability of the A2A receptor in the brain with high target specificity. It is regarded ready for human application.

Keywords: adenosine receptors; A2A receptor; neurodegeneration; positron emission tomography; fluorine-18; FESCH

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Publ.-Id: 31989


Mirror twin boundaries in MoSe₂ monolayers as one dimensional nanotemplates for selective water adsorption

Li, J.; Joseph, T.; Ghorbani Asl, M.; Kolekar, S.; Krasheninnikov, A.; Batzill, M.

Water adsorption on transition metal dichalcogenides and other 2D materials is generally governed by weak van der Waals interactions. This results in a hydrophobic character of the basal planes, and defects may play a significant role in water adsorption and water cluster nucleation. However, there is a lack of detailed experimental investigations on water adsorption on defective 2D materials. Here, by combining low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiments and density functional theory (DFT) calculations, we study in that context the well-defined mirror twin boundary (MTB) networks separating mirror-grains in 2D MoSe2. These MTBs are dangling bond-free extended crystal modifications with metallic electronic states embedded in the 2D semiconducting matrix of MoSe2. Our DFT calculations indicate that molecular water also interacts similarly weak with these MTBs as with the defect-free basal plane of MoSe2. However, in low temperature STM experiments, nanoscopic water structures are observed that selectively decorate the MTB network. This localized adsorption of water is facilitated by functionalization of the MTBs by hydroxyls formed by dissociated water. Hydroxyls may form by dissociating of water at undercoordinated defects or adsorbing of radicals from the gas phase in the UHV chamber. Our DFT analysis indicates that the metallic MTBs adsorb these radicals much stronger than on the basal plane due to charge transfer from the metallic states into the molecular orbitals of the OH groups. Once the MTBs are functionalized with hydroxyls, molecular water can attach to them, forming water channels along the MTBs. This study demonstrates the role metallic defect states play in the adsorption of water even in the absence of unsaturated bonds that have been so far considered to be crucial for adsorption of hydroxyls or water.

Keywords: van der Waals materials; water adsorption; defect engineering; hydroxylation; metallic defect states; molecular scale adsorption template

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Publ.-Id: 31988


Microwave-assisted spectroscopy of vacancy-related spin centers in hexagonal SiC

Shang, Z.; Berencen, Y.; Hollenbach, M.; Zhou, S.; Kraus, H.; Ohshima, T.; Astakhov, G.

Optically active spin centers associated with atomic-scale defects in SiC are promising candidates for quantum technology owing to their outstanding optical and spin properties. Photoluminescence as a mature optical investigating tool is widely used for the identification of spin defects and exploration of their properties. However, in the case of spectrally overlapped contributions from different types of defects, the traditional photoluminescence measurement cannot be used to separately obtain their optical and vibrational properties, such as the local phonon energy and the Debye-Waller factor. Here, we apply spin resonant microwave-assisted spectroscopy to investigate the optical and vibrational properties of silicon vacancies in 6H-SiC and divacancies in 4H- and 6H-SiC. We isolate contributions from each type of defect, investigate their local vibrational modes and obtain the Debye-Waller factor. This work proves that microwave-assisted spectroscopy is a suitable tool for the investigation of optical and vibrational properties of a large variety of spin defects.

Keywords: silicon carbide; spin centers; photoluminescence; local phonon energy; Debye-Waller factor; microwave-assisted spectroscopy

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Publ.-Id: 31987


Geological Remote Sensing

Booysen, R.; Gloaguen, R.; Lorenz, S.; Zimmermann, R.; Nex, P.

Remote sensing is commonly defined either as the data acquisition about an object or a process at a distance or the scanning of the Earth by satellite or high-flying aircraft. In the present article, we will consider all the relevant sensors and techniques that allow the imaging, measurement and monitoring of the Earth’s surface from a distance greater than 10 m.

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Publ.-Id: 31986


Crystallization of optically thick films of CoxFe80−xB20: Evolution of optical, magneto-optical, and structural properties

Sharma, A.; Hoffmann, M. A.; Matthes, P.; Hellwig, O.; Kowol, C.; Schulz, S. E.; Zahn, D. R. T.; Salvan, G.

CoFeB alloys are highly relevant materials for spintronic applications. In this work, the crystallization of CoFeB alloys triggered by thermal annealing was investigated by x-ray diffraction techniques and scanningelectron microscopy, as well as spectroscopic ellipsometry and magneto-optical Kerr effect spectroscopy forannealing temperatures ranging from 300 to 600◦C. The transformation of∼100-nm-thick CoxFe(80−x)B20filmsfrom amorphous to polycrystalline was revealed by the sharpening of spectral features observed in optical andmagneto-optical dielectric functions spectra. The influence of B on the dielectric function was assessed bothexperimentally and by optical modeling. By analyzing the Drude component of the optical dielectric function,a consistent trend between the charge-carrier scattering time/resistivity and the annealing temperature wasobserved, in agreement with the electrical investigations by means of the four-point-probe method.

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Publ.-Id: 31984


Manipulating the Energy Balance of Perpendicular-Anisotropy Synthetic Antiferromagnets by He+-Ion Irradiation

Koch, L.; Samad, F.; Lenz, M.; Hellwig, O.

He+-ion irradiation enables controlled postdeposition modification of layered magnetic thin-film sys-tems. The degree of modification and its depth profile can be tuned by the irradiation dose and energy.Here, we use magnetometry and magnetic force microscopy to explore the impact of gentle He+-ion irra-diation on synthetic antiferromagnets, consisting of ferromagnetic Co/Pt multilayers with perpendicularmagnetic anisotropy, which are antiferromagnetically (AF) coupled via Ru interlayers. This system showsa rich variety of magnetic domain patterns due to the strong competition between different magnetic ener-gies. We show that AF interlayer exchange and perpendicular interface anisotropy energy are graduallyreduced by the ion irradiation while the demagnetization energy is mainly preserved, which thus results inmultiple successive magnetic-phase transitions.

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Publ.-Id: 31983


Algorithms for the Exploration of an Automated STM DAQ Hardware Development Process based on Continuous Integration for the Mu2e Experiment

Ufer, R.; Voigt, M.; Müller, S.; Knodel, O.

This project contains the source code for the evaluation of an automated process which converts algorithms written in C/C++ to Data Acquisition (DAQ) hardware cores on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) using Continuous Integration (CI). The cores are building blocks of the DAQ for the Stopping-Target-Monitor of the MU2E experiment currently in construction at FERMILAB (USA). The MU2E experiment will search for Charged Lepton Flavor Violation (CLFV) looking for the direct decay of a muon into an electron.

Keywords: Data Management; DAQ; FPGA; Mu2e; Detector

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Publ.-Id: 31982


Edge localization of spin waves in antidot multilayers with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy

Pan, S.; Mondal, S.; Zelent, M.; Szwierz, R.; Pal, S.; Hellwig, O.; Krawczyk, M.; Barman, A.

We study the spin-wave dynamics in nanoscale antidot lattices based on Co/Pd multilayers with perpendicularmagnetic anisotropy. Using time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect measurements we demonstrate that thevariation of the antidot shape introduces significant change in the spin-wave spectra, especially in the lowerfrequency range. By employing micromagnetic simulations we show that additional peaks observed in themeasured spectra are related to narrow shell regions around the antidots, where in-plane domain structures areformed. This is because the magnetic anisotropy in these regions is reduced due to the Ga(+)ion irradiation duringthe focused ion beam milling process of the antidot fabrication. The results point at possibilities for exploitationof localized spin waves in out-of-plane magnetized thin films, which are easily tunable and suitable for magnonicapplications.

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Publ.-Id: 31981


Numerical simulation of liquid metal batteries

Weber, N.

Der Vortrag gibt einen Überblick über die Simulation von Flüssigmetallbatterien.

  • Invited lecture (Conferences) (Online presentation)
    Seminarreihe “Liquid metal technologies”, 15.01.2021, Morelia, Mexiko

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Publ.-Id: 31980


Modelling of Peripheral Components and Evaluation of a Heat-Integration Concept for a Power-to-Methanol System based on p-SOECs

Naidu Tanga, V.

Due to the constantly growing utilization of wind and solar energy, the demand for technologies for temporal and spatial decoupling of energy provision and consumption is steadily increasing. The application of proton-conducting high temperature solid oxide electrolysis cells (p-SOECs) has been a main concern in recent research activities since they offer an environmentally friendly and efficient technique for the single step conversion of excess energy from renewables into pure hydrogen. As renewables occur intermittently, SOEC designs and all employed materials have to be capable of withstanding large electrical transients and therefore harsh operating conditions. Tubular SOEC designs are characterized by inherent advantages: They offer rapid start-up capabilities, a high resistance to thermal stresses and are usable for high-pressure application. Combined with suitable downstream syntheses units (e.g. methanol synthesis), innovative power-to-X systems can be provided for the production of valuable liquid or gaseous chemicals from H2 and anthropogenic CO2 as a chemical storage of excess energy. This work aims to modify the existing dynamic system model and extend it with regard to specific peripheral system components (compressors, evaporators, heat exchangers, pre-heaters, super-heaters and condensers). These peripheral components are ought to be modelled as simplified dynamic 0D black-box models and basic design specifications (dimensions, power demands, etc.) are to be determined with the given system parameters for the conditioning of all employed reactant, intermediate and product gas streams. Furthermore, the extended system model should be used to evaluate a given heat integration concept, which is fully utilizing all waste, intermediate and product gas streams of the power-to-methanol system. The overall system efficiency is to be determined for different load cases during intermittent operation.

  • Master thesis
    Universität Rostock, 2020
    Mentor: Stefan Fogel
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Modellierung einer solargespeisten Polymer-Elektrolyt-Membran Elektrolyseanlage mit Energiespeichersystemen

Chehade, K.

In einem urbanen Industrieareal wird die zukunftsweisende Technologie der solargespeisten Wasserstofferzeugung entwickelt. Dabei wird ein PEM-Elektrolyseur (Proton-Exchange Membrane) mit einer Leistung von 1 MW an eine auf den Industriedächern geplante Photovoltaikanlage mit einer Peakleistung von etwa 4,5 MWp angeschlossen. Somit soll eine Grundauslastung der Elektrolyse-anlage innerhalb der Erzeugungsregion erreicht werden.

An der Hochschule Esslingen wird an Regelungsstrategien für hybride elektrische Energiesysteme (HEES) geforscht. Im Rahmen der Diplomarbeit soll eine robuste Regelung für eine Elektrolyse-Anlage in MATLAB/Simulink am Beispiel des o.g. Projekts inklusive Photovoltaikanlage und einer Batterie sowie Wasserstofftanks implementiert werden. Dabei sollen Stör- und Einflussgrößen (Witterungseinflüsse etc.) beschrieben und Betriebspunktverschiebungen berücksichtigt werden.

  • Diploma thesis
    Technische Universität Dresden, 2020
    Mentor: Stefan Fogel
    133 Seiten

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UAS-based hyperspectral and magnetic mineral exploration targeting Ni-PGE mineralization on Northern Disko Island, West Greenland

Jackisch, R.; Zimmermann, R.; Heincke, B.; Karinen, A.; Salmirinne, H.; Pirtijärvi, M.; Lorenz, S.; Madriz Diaz, Y. C.; Gloaguen, R.

Geologic mapping in arctic regions faces demanding challenges, from accessibility to weather, light and infrastructure conditions. Field expeditions need to cover substantial area, and mostly are supported by satellite and airborne data. While named methods offer large-scaled insights, they often lack the required resolution for precise ground investigations. The rise of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) as new state-of-the-art platform in geoscience provides the means needed to close that scale gap.

Fieldwork within the frame of the EIT project MULSEDRO focused on the Paleocene flood basalt province of Disko Island (West Greenland). On the example of the Qullissat area, we demonstrate how UAS can bring new insights into strategies for magmatic Ni-PGE exploration in the area. Mineralization is associated to basalt sills of the Asuk Member, emplaced locally in coal-bearing cretaceous sandstones. We conducted photogrammetric outcrop modelling, interpretation of orthoimagery, multi- and hyperspectral based lithological classification and analysis of magnetic data. While magnetics give the location, orientation and subsurface extension of the basaltic sills, spectral imaging, in particular with focus on the iron absorption feature, reveals mineral proxies due to sulphide weathering. A total of 216 line-km for magnetics and 18.5 km2 of multi- and hyperspectral data was covered.

First results show that integration of drone-borne spectroscopic and magnetic data highlights potential local mineralization. Based on our results, possible indications for mineralization are linear features in the first vertical derivative of the magnetic data and specific iron absorptions in the spectral data. Resulting maps are validated using handheld spectroscopy, ground magnetics, susceptibility measurements, combined with geochemistry and mineralogy of rock samples examined in the laboratory. Conclusively, the study solidifies UAS as highly valuable tool for exploration.

Keywords: unmanned aerial vehicles; magnetics; multispectral; hyperspectral; Greenland

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Science Blog: Game of drones – unmanned aerial vehicles in mineral exploration and geological mapping

Salmirinne, H.; Heincke, B.; Jackisch, R.; Saartenoja, A.

Over the last ten years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), commonly called drones, and related systems have rapidly developed. Everyman’s drones are available on store shelves to take photos and videos of holidays, one’s own house and garden, and for many other private reasons. With the general advances in robotics and digitalization, drones have also been increasingly utilized for various commercial applications. This trend can additionally be seen in geosciences. A key question arising for many geoscience applications is whether drones could be used as platforms to carry out more demanding surveys with remote sensing and geophysical sensors that have traditionally been mounted on aircraft or have been carried by workers on the ground. The answer is yes, drones can be used, although the integration of such sensors on drones is not straightforward. The methods themselves are typically well developed, but drones as an aspiring platform pose challenges for operating sensors and performing measurement procedures in proper ways. In particular, the need for small and lightweight sensors with a low power consumption for UAV platforms plays an important role, because they allow flexible low-cost measurements to be performed without a long preparation phase. Another aspect is that legislation, which varies from country to country, affects drone operations. Therefore, it is often difficult in practice for drone-operating companies to provide international services, and it is generally easier to obtain permission for small drones flying at low altitude only. To find a remedy for this, a common EU-wide regulation is currently in preparation. EU drone regulation (EU) 2019/947 defines the rules and procedures for different types of drone operations and is intended to be applied according to the transition period of the regulation on 31 December 2020.

In recent years, many groups all over the world – both in academia and industry – have worked on the integration of various sensor types on drones that are relevant for geological mapping and mineral exploration. Drone-borne survey systems are considered to be especially appropriate for small to medium-sized surveys that are smaller than those carried out with traditional aircraft, but larger than ground-based surveys. The goal of many companies is to offer drone-based services for this market niche.

Keywords: unmanned aerial vehicles; mineral mapping; hyperspectral imaging; magnetics

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Component Decomposition-Based Hyperspectral Resolution Enhancement for Mineral Mapping

Duan, P.; Lai, J.; Ghamisi, P.; Kang, X.; Jackisch, R.; Kang, J.; Gloaguen, R.

Combining both spectral and spatial information with enhanced resolution provides not only elaborated qualitative information on surfacing mineralogy but also mineral interactions of abundance, mixture, and structure. This enhancement in the resolutions helps geomineralogic features such as small intrusions and mineralization become detectable. In this paper, we investigate the potential of the resolution enhancement of hyperspectral images (HSIs) with the guidance of RGB images for mineral mapping. In more detail, a novel resolution enhancement method is proposed based on component decomposition. Inspired by the principle of the intrinsic image decomposition (IID) model, the HSI is viewed as the combination of a reflectance component and an illumination component. Based on this idea, the proposed method is comprised of several steps. First, the RGB image is transformed into the luminance component, blue-difference and red-difference chroma components (YCbCr), and the luminance channel is considered as the illumination component of the HSI with an ideal high spatial resolution. Then, the reflectance component of the ideal HSI is estimated with the downsampled HSI image and the downsampled luminance channel. Finally, the HSI with high resolution can be reconstructed by utilizing the obtained illumination and the reflectance components. Experimental results verify that the fused results can successfully achieve mineral mapping, producing better results qualitatively and quantitatively over single sensor data.

Keywords: hyperspectral image; mineral mapping; resolution enhancement; intrinsic image decomposition

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Thermal treatment of materials on short time scales

Rebohle, L.; Prucnal, S.; Cherkouk, C.; Berencen, Y.; Skorupa, W.

Important technological developments of our time such as the energy transition or digitalization require new materials and more efficient manufacturing processes. The processes of ultra-short time annealing such as flash lamp annealing (FLA) and laser annealing have the potential to make an important contribution. During such processes high temperatures are applied for very short times (nano- to milliseconds), so that only near surface regions of the material are exposed to the maximum temperature. Compared to conventional thermal treatments, ultra-short time annealing enables energy and process time savings, the use of temperature-sensitive substrates, and the synthesis of new materials in thermal non-equilibrium.
The talk is divided into two parts. After an introduction, the first part discusses the main features of FLA in comparison with other short time annealing techniques, namely rapid thermal annealing and laser annealing. Special focus is set on temperature and its determination, as this is a complex and challenging issue on short time scales. The second part deals with various examples of applying FLA to materials, ranging from semiconductor applications over printed electronics to energy materials for batteries.

Keywords: ultra-short time annealing; flash lamp annealing; ion implantation; energy materials; lithium ion battery

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    Kooperationstreffen Universität Lublin, 08.10.2020, Lublin, Polen

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BlitzLab – ein Helmholtz Innovation Lab

Rebohle, L.; Cherkouk, C.; Folgner, C.; Prucnal, S.; Schumann, T.; Krüger, S.

Der Vortrag stellt das Helmholtz Innovation Lab blitzlab vor und geht danach auf die Blitzlampenausheilung als ein innovatives Verfahren zur thermischen Behandlung von Materialien und Werkstoffen ein.

Keywords: Helmholtz Innovation Lab blitzlab; flash lamp annealing; ultra-short annealing

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    Arbeitstreffen am IMWS, 30.09.2020, Halle, Deutschland

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Functionalized silicon substrates with stripe-patterned surface-near electrostatic forces for the self-organized, stable immobilization of biomolecules

Blaschke, D.; Pahlow, S.; Fremberg, T.; Weber, K.; Müller, A. D.; Kurz, S.; Spohn, J.; Dhandapani, V.; Rebohle, L.; Skorupa, I.; Schmidt, H.

Silicon substrates with stripe-patterned surface-near electrostatic forces (SNEF) were prepared by local implantation of boron ions into n-type silicon wafers and of phosphorus ions into p-type silicon wafers in a stripe pattern of 12 µm periodicity. The dependence of SNEF on the concentration of implanted ions, post-annealing conditions, and generation of charge carriers under illumination was investigated by measuring the 1st and 2nd harmonics of the SNEF in the dark and under illumination using Kelvin probe force microscopy. The self-organized immobilization of biomolecules on silicon regions with positive charges occupying the interface states between the silicon and the native SiO2 has been demonstrated for the negatively charged single stranded deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and bovine serum albumin (BSA) proteins.

Keywords: surface-near electrostatic forces; Kelvin probe force microscopy; Si pn-junction; self-organized molecular immobilization; deoxyribonucleic acid; bovine serum albumin

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Data for: The structure in warm dense carbon

Vorberger, J.; Plageman, K.-U.; Redmer, R.

The structure of the fluid carbon phase in the pressure region of the graphite, diamond, and BC8 solid phases is investigated. We find increasing coordination numbers with an increase in density. From zero to 30 GPa, the liquid shows a decrease of packing efficiency with increasing temperature. However, for higher pressures, the coordination number increases with increasing temperature. Up to 1.5 eV and independent of the pressure up to 1500 GPa, a double-peak structure in the ion structure factors exists, indicating persisting covalent bonds. Over the whole pressure range from zero to 3000 GPa, the fluid structure and properties are strongly determined by such covalent bonds.

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Nanosensor-Based Real-Time Monitoring of Stress Biomarkers in Human Saliva Using a Portable Measurement System

Klinghammer, S.; Voitsekhivska, T.; Licciardello, N.; Kim, K.; Baek, C.-K.; Cho, H.; Wolter, K.-J.; Kirschbaum, C.; Baraban, L.; Cuniberti, G.

Small molecules with no or little charge are considered to have minimal impact on signals measured by field effect transistor (FET) sensors. This fact typically excludes steroids from the family of analytes, detected by FETs. We present a portable multiplexed platform based on an array of nanowire sensors for label-free monitoring of daytime levels of the stress hormone cortisol in saliva samples, obtained from multiple donors. To achieve an effective quantification of the cortisol with FETs, we rely on the specific DNA aptamer sequences as receptors, bringing the complex “target-receptor” closer to the nanowire surface. Upon binding, cortisol induces conformational changes of negatively charged aptamers, wrapping it into a close proximity to the silicon nanowires, to efficiently modulate their surface potential. Thus, the sensors allow for a real-time assessment of the steroid biomarkers at low nanomolar concentration. The measurement platform is designed in a building-block concept, consisting of a modular measuring unit and a customizable biochip board, and operates using a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor-integrated multiplexer. The platform is capable of continuous and simultaneous measurement of samples from multiple patients. Cortisol levels detected with the presented platform agreed well with the results obtained with a commercial high-sensitivity immunoassay

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