In this review on advanced biomolecular EPR spectroscopy, which addresses both the EPR and NMR communities, considerable emphasis is put on delineating the complementarity of NMR and EPR regarding the measurement of interactions and dynamics of large molecules embedded in fluid-solution or solid-state environments. Our focus is on the characterization of protein structure, dynamics and interactions, using sophisticated EPR spectroscopy methods. New developments in pulsed microwave and sweepab...

The World Health Organization has been listing cardiovascular disease and its sequelae as one of the leading causes of death worldwide for several years in its annual report. In general this includes all disease that originates from the vascular system and / or from the heart. Due to the high patient rate, there is great interest in researching the exact processes and effects of the diseases on the tissue as well as on the flow behavior. These can be used to develop therapeutic options, but a...

Das Ziel dieser Arbeit besteht darin, an Hand von nichtlinearer optischer Spektroskopie, Informationen über fundamentale Zustände in Halbleiter-Materialien zu erhalten. Bei diesen Zuständen handelt es sich um Anregungen von Elektron-Loch Quasiteilchen, den sogenannten Exzitonen. Diese treten im Energiebereich unterhalb der Bandlücke des Materials auf und dominieren dort die optischen Eigenschaften. Im Unterschied zur linearen Optik geschieht die Anregung in der nichtlinearen Optik durch zwei...

Graphene-ferromagnet interfaces possess remarkable properties like induced magnetism in the graphene film, increased magnetic anisotropy in the ferromagnetic film, and chiral magnetism. Previously, the graphene-ferromagnet interface was investigated mainly on metallic substrates. Yet, silicon carbide (SiC) is a promising graphene substrate due to its semi-insulating properties and its industrial relevance. This thesis investigates for the first time the intercalation of thin cobalt films...

Voltage control of ferromagnetism on the nanometer scale is highly appealing for the development of novel electronic devices with low power consumption, high operation speed, reliable reversibility and compatibility with semiconductor technology. Hybrid structures based on the assembly of ferromagnetic and semiconducting building blocks are expected to show magnetic order as a ferromagnet and to be electrically tunable as a semiconductor. Here, we demonstrate the electrical control of the exc...

We report on the fabrication and characterization of a novel magnetophotonic structure designed as iron garnet based magneto-optical nanoresonator cavity constrained by two noble metal mirrors. Since the iron garnet layer requires annealing at high temperatures, the fabrication process can be rather challenging. Special approaches for the protection of metal layers against oxidation and morphological changes along with a special plasma-assisted polishing of the iron garnet layer surface were ...

The effects of exchange coupling on magnetic switching properties of all-garnet multilayer thin film structures are investigated. All-garnet structures are fabricated by sandwiching a magneto-soft material of composition type Bi1.8Lu1.2Fe3.6Al1.4O12 or Bi3Fe5O12:Dy2O3 in between two magneto-hard garnet material layers of composition type Bi2Dy1Fe4Ga1O12 or Bi2Dy1Fe4Ga1O12:Bi2O3. The fabricated RF magnetron sputtered exchange-coupled all-garnet multilayers demonstrate a very attractive combina...

The sensitive detection of different biochemical species is of great interest both for the fundamental research and for practical applications concerning the disease diagnostics and drug screening. The high demand in selective, sensitive, fast and low-cost diagnostic techniques has resulted in the rapid development of various-types biochemical sensors (biosensors). Being analytical devices for the qualitative or/and quantitative determination of biological targets, biosensors usually consist ...

In this work, several types of biosensors are fabricated, characterized, and utilized for the reliable and accurate detection of speci c biomolecules that playing a crucial role in biochemical processes inside the human organism. During the work, di erent types of biosensing techniques, including whispering-gallerymode (WGM) resonators and eld-e ect transistors (FETs), as well as electrolyteinsulator- semiconductor (EIS) sensors were introduced and used as highly sensitive tools to stu...

Coherent optical spectroscopy such as four-wave mixing and photon echo generation deliver rich information on the energy levels involved in optical transitions through the analysis of polarization of the coherent response. In semiconductors, it can be applied to distinguish between different exciton complexes, which is a highly non-trivial problem in optical spectroscopy. We develop a simple approach based on photon echo polarimetry, in which polar plots of the photon echo amplitude are measu...

In der heutigen Zeit werden komplexe Probleme zumeist durch aufwendige Algorithmen und unter Zuhilfenahme fortgeschrittener Computersysteme gelöst, die jedoch insofern limitiert sind, als dass sie nur eine gewisse Komplexität im Bezug auf die Größe der zu lösenden Probleme erlauben. Steigt der Rechenaufwand nichtlinear mit der Zahl der Eingabeparameter, so kommen selbst hochmoderne Technologien an ihre Grenzen. Eine Alternative zur Berechnung komplexer Probleme ist das Maßschneidern eines phy...

The lead halide perovskites demonstrate huge potential for optoelectronic applications, high energy radiation detectors, light emitting devices and solar energy harvesting. Those materials exhibit strong spin-orbit coupling enabling efficient optical orientation of carrier spins in perovskite-based devices with performance controlled by a magnetic field. Here we show that elaborated time-resolved spectroscopy involving strong magnetic fields can be successfully used for perovskites. We perfor...

Das Verständnis und die Manipulation der Elektronenspindynamik und des Transports in niedrigdimensionalen Halbleiter-Nanostrukturen ist eine Schlüsselanforderung für funktionale Quantentechnologien. In dieser Arbeit wird ein zeit- und ortsaufgelöstes magneto-optisches Kerr-Mikroskop eingesetzt. Dieses ermöglicht es die Wirkung von impulsabhängigen effektiven Magnetfeldern auf die Spin-Dynamik eines zweidimensionalen Elektronengases in GaAs und CdTe Quantentrögen mit hoher Ladungsträgerm...

Applying small-angle X-ray scattering in combination with liquid-state theory, we determined the intermolecular interaction potential, V(r), of dense lysozyme solutions, which governs the spatial distribution of the protein molecules and the location of its liquid−liquid phase separation (LLPS) region, in various crowding environments and in presence of natural osmolyte mixtures occurring within cells of organisms that thrive under extreme environmental conditions. The deep-sea osmolyte trime...

Super-resolution imaging has introduced new capabilities to investigate processes at the nanometer scale by optical means. However, most super-resolution techniques require either sparse excitation of few emitters or analysis of high-order cumulants in order to identify several emitters in close vicinity. Here, we present an approach that draws upon methods from quantum optics to perform localization super-resolution imaging of densely packed emitters and determine their number automatically:...

Wasser und wässrige Systeme spielen in der Natur und Technik eine signifikante Rolle, da die meisten biologischen und chemischen Prozesse in wässriger Umgebung stattfinden. Tritt eine wässrige Lösung in Kontakt zu einem Festkörper, entsteht eine fest-flüssig-Grenzfläche, an welcher in Wasser gelöste Moleküle bevorzugt adsorbieren können. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurden mittels Röntgenreflektivität (X-ray Reflectivity, XRR) in-situ Einflüsse diverser Parameter auf den Adsorptionsprozess an der ...

The ability to measure the quantum state of light is an important ingredient in the development of photonic quantum technologies such as optical quantum computing or secure quantum communication. A quantum state comprises all information one can have about a quantum system. Since quantum physics is a statistical theory, a quantum state cannot be captured with a single measurement. Therefore, usually, measurements on an ensemble of identically prepared copies of the quantum system under study ...