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- ItemDFG final report for the Walter Benjamin Programme : Stationary and time-dependent radiative heat transfer with cylindrical waveguides(Hannover : Technische Informationsbibliothek, 2025) Asheichyk, KirylFollowing the progress in development of micro- and nanodevices, the physics of thermal radiation at these small length scales has been studied intensively in the current century. It requires more sophisticated theories and obeys different laws compared to radiative heat exchange at large scales, for example, between the Sun and the Earth. Yet main questions remain similar: How to improve the efficiency of radiative heat transfer, suppress or enhance the cooling rate of an object, thermally isolate a part of a system? Another important and only recently emerged research area concerns systems subject to nonstationary conditions, such as time-dependent temperatures or material properties of the objects, where the heat fluxes can depend on time and show fundamentally different properties compared to the stationary case. In this project, we addressed the aforementioned questions for the stationary heat transfer between two nanoparticles placed close to a nanowire or inside a cylindrical cavity. In the former case, the heat transfer was shown to decay logarithmically with the interparticle distance, thus greatly outperforming the transfer without an additional object or in the presence of objects of other shapes. In the latter case, a cylindrical cavity can largely suppress or resonantly enhance the heat flow, depending on its radius. If we consider that one particle starts to radiate at a certain time, the heat flux to another one is no longer stationary, which requires an extension of the existing theoretical formalisms. Making this extension, we derived a formula for the time-dependent flux, numerically demonstrating it for two isolated nanoparticles, where picosecond-scale oscillatory exponential relaxation to the stationary value was observed. In addition to the aforementioned studies of radiative heat flow through vacuum, we also developed a theory for computing this flow inside media, and derived the corresponding thermal conductivity tensor for an arbitrary object. In agreement with recent experiments, it was found that the radiative part of conductivity of a nanosheet can be larger compared to the phononic part due to the electromagnetic surface waves contribution. The developed theoretical frameworks can be used to further advance the subject area, while the found results may be relevant for practical applications, such as thermal microscopy, thermal logic, or nanomedicine.
- ItemDFG Final Report for Automatic Fact Checking for Biomedical Information in Social Media and Scientific Literature (FIBISS), project number 667374(Hannover : Technische Informationsbibliothek, 2025-04-10) Klinger, Roman; Wührl, AmelieResearch into methods for the automatic verification of facts, i.e., computational models that can distinguish correct information from misinformation or disinformation, is largely focused on the news domain and on the analysis of posts in social media. Among other things, texts are checked for their truthfulness. This can be done by analyzing linguistic features that suggest an intention to deceive or by comparing them with other sources that make comparable statements in terms of content. Most studies focus on politically relevant areas. The biomedical domain is also an area of particular social relevance. In social media, various actors and medical laypersons share reports on treatment methods, successes and failures, such as the (disproven) method of treating viral infections with deworming agents or disinfectants. There are also reports on (disproven) links between treatments and adverse effects, such as the causation of autism by vaccination. However, the biomedical domain, unlike other areas relevant for automated fact checking, benefits from a large resource of reliable scientific articles. The aim of the FIBISS project was therefore to develop and evaluate methods that can extract biomedical claims in social media and compare them with reliable sources. One challenge here is that social media does not typically use technical language, so different vocabularies have to be combined. The approach in FIBISS was therefore to develop generalizing information extraction methods. In the course of the project, large language models also became prominent as a further methodological approach. The project was therefore adapted to optimize general representations of claims in such a way that they are suitable for comparison using automatic fact-checking procedures. As a result, we contribute text corpora that are used to develop and evaluate automated biomedical fact-checking systems. We propose methods that automatically reformulate claims so that they are suitable to be automatically verified. Furthermore, we present approaches that can automatically assess the credibility of claims, even independently of existing evidence.
- ItemFinal Report of the DFG Project "Drawing Graphs: Geometric Aspects Beyond Planarity" (project number 654838)(Hannover : Technische Informationsbibliothek, 2025-04) Wolff, AlexanderThe aim of our project was to get a better understanding of the mathematical structures that correspond to the different ways of measuring the visual complexity of a drawing of a graph. Examples for such measures are the local crossing number, that is, the maximum number of crossings per edge, the slope number, that is, the number of different slopes in a crossing-free straight-line drawing, the segment number or the line cover number, that is, the number of straight-line segments or straight lines needed to cover a crossing-free straight-line drawing. For a graph, the measures are defined as the minimum over all drawings (of the corresponding type). The center of our studies became the measure segment number, which is known to be NP-hard to compute. In particular, we showed that there is a parameterized algorithm for computing the segment number of a given graph with respect to the several parameters; the natural parameter, the line cover number, and the vertex cover number. The latter proof was the technically most challenging. In a different work, we showed that it is ETR-complete to compute the segment number of a given graph, that is, the segment number of a graph can be expressed in terms of the existential theory of the reals, but its computation is at least as hard as every problem in the complexity class ETR. Moreover, we extended a result concerning the segment number of triconnected cu- bic planar graphs by showing that the segment number of every triconnected 4-regular planar graph with n vertices is at most n + 3, which is tight up to the additive constant. We have proved the first linear universal lower bounds for the segment number of out- erpaths, maximal outerplanar graphs, 2-trees, and planar 3-trees. This shows that the existing algorithms for these graph classes are in fact constant-factor approximation algorithms. For maximal outerpaths, our universal lower bound is best possible.
- ItemBerechnung, Messung und Kontrolle der Energiebarrieren und der lichtinduzierten Kinetik des ASi-Sii-Defektes(Hannover : Technische Informationsbibliothek, 2025-04-09) Lauer, KevinDie Siliziumtechnologie hat umfangreiche Anwendungsmöglichkeiten, die sich im gegenwärtigen Alltag überall wiederfinden. Anwendungen wie Computer, Smartphones, Sensoren, Detektoren, Solarzellen und viele mehr sind nur möglich geworden durch jahrzehntelange Erforschung des Siliziums und der nötigen technologischen Prozesse. Nichtsdestotrotz gibt es noch immer unverstandene Phänomene und Mechanismen, speziell im Bereich der Defekte und der Degradation. Ein besseres Verständnis ist notwendig, da Defekte zum einen notwendig für die Funktionsweise von Bauelementen sind, sich aber auch negativ auswirken können. Das Projekt untersuchte eine besondere Kategorie von Defekten, die einen Akzeptor und interstitielles Silizium involvieren, so genannte ASi-Sii-Defekte. Sie tragen vermutlich maßgeblich zur licht-induzierten Degradation von Solarzellen und Detektorbauelemente bei. Konkret wurden in diesem Projekt die Energiebarrieren zwischen verschiedenen Defektzuständen der ASi-Sii-Defekte, die teilweise erst identifiziert werden mussten, in enger Zusammenarbeit von Experiment und Theorie erforscht und bestimmt. Die Barrierenhöhen haben einen direkten Einfluss auf die Defektkinetik und -stabilität, weshalb ihre Kenntnis essentiell ist. Gelingt es, die Barrierenhöhen gezielt zu beeinflussen (z.B. durch Wahl des Akzeptors), so können Bauelementeigenschaften ggf. gezielt eingestellt werden, z.B. zur Effizienzsteigerung oder Lebenszeitverlängerung von Solarzellen. Zudem erscheint es reizvoll künftig zu untersuchen, inwieweit Defekte aus dieser Kategorie als Qubit Verwendung finden können und somit für die Silizium-basierte Quantentechnologie interessant sind. Das Projekt hat erfolgreich einen Beitrag zum grundlegenden Verständnis der ASi-Sii-Defekte geleistet und legt den Grundstein für die weitere Erforschung dieser interessanten Defektkategorie.
- ItemCollaborative Research Center 917 : Resistively Switching Chalcogenides for Future Electronics : Structure, Kinetics, and Device Scalability : Final report : 2019/2-2020-2021-2022-2023/1(Hannover : Technische Informationsbibliothek, 2025-03-25) Wuttig, Matthias; Waser, Rainer; Dronskowski, Richard; Dittmann, Regina; Simon, Ulrich; Mayer, JoachimThe goal of SFB 917 has been the development of novel nanoswitches that can be reproducibly and reversibly changed between two states on very short time and length scales. Such nanoswitches can enable new storage and memory devices as well as neuro-inspired architectures for information technology. In the third and final funding period of SFB 917 we have witnessed and contributed to three major trends. The exponential growth in the demand for data storage and processing has continued. Hardware improvements are therefore urgently needed to meet the increased demands for data storage and processing as well as the related increase in energy consumption. SFB 917 strives to realize novel storage devices by exploiting the full potential of chalcogenide-based nanoswitches. Yet, it has become increasingly clear in the last few years, that improvements in device performance alone are insufficient to deal with the exponential growth mentioned above. The advance of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and related software has produced a further increase in data processing related energy consumption. This is a major challenge considering the expected further increase of professional and private usage of such machine learning tools. To minimize the related energy consumption, particularly energy-efficient software and hardware developments are mandatory. Within SFB9917, we have this intensified our efforts to work on effects related to a reduction in energy consumption. While energy-efficient devices can help, an improvement in hardware architecture offers significantly more leverage. We have thus explored the potential of chalcogenide based nano-switches in neuro-inspired computer architectures. To this end, several new large-scale research projects have been initiated (NeuroSys and NeuroTec), which extend our research on these devices in increasingly more complex architectures, offering new opportunities to harvest the findings of SFB 917 in new applications. To tailor chalcogenide-based nano-switches, major advances in instrumentation as well as an in-depth understanding of the origin of underlying phenomena and unconventional properties in these materials have been mandatory. Challenges included the characterization of switching in these materials on nanosecond time and nanometer length scales. Sophisticated tools have been built and utilized. Understanding unconventional properties are required building a bridge between concepts of inorganic chemistry and material properties leading to novel treasure maps which help to identify and tailor chalcogenides for specific applications. These successes are described in detail in the present report. To demonstrate that these findings are also relevant for industry, close cooperation with industrial partners has been established to ensure that the findings made within SFB 917 can also be implemented on the shortest possible time scales.