Johannes Kepler University of Linz

About: Johannes Kepler University of Linz is a education organization based out in Linz, Oberösterreich, Austria. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Thin film & Quantum dot. The organization has 6605 authors who have published 19243 publications receiving 385667 citations.

Why Do Students Expect to Stay Longer in College? Evidence from Europe

Abstract: We investigate the expected college completion time of European college students by using data from a survey of more than 3000 students in 10 countries. We explain observed excess time to graduation by paying special attention to labor market variables, such as unemployment, wage differentials and employment protection, and to the funding of tertiary education.

Stress in Evaporated and Sputtered Thin Films – A Comparison

Abstract: Stress in thin films and heterostructures is often the cause for malfunction of respective applications, but enables also the controlled engineering of novel materials properties. In the last years considerable progress has been achieved in understanding the mechanisms for stress evolution and relaxation. Whereas originally the stress generation appeared to be strongly dependent on the chosen deposition technique, it turned out that many of the involved stress mechanisms apply independently of the deposition technique and are intrinsically determined by the growth process. A comparative review of recent results on the stress of polycrystalline and epitaxial thin films prepared by evaporation and sputtering techniques will be given. The review focuses on stress results measured in situ during the film deposition.

Reconciling software requirements and architectures: the CBSP approach

Abstract: Little guidance and few methods are available to refine a set of software requirements into an architecture satisfying those requirements. Part of the challenge stems from the fact that requirements and architectures leverage different terms and concepts to capture the artifacts relevant to each. We present CBSP (Component-Bus-System- Property), a lightweight approach intended to provide a systematic way of reconciling requirements and architectures. CBSP leverages a simple set of architectural concepts (components, connectors, overall systems, and their properties) to recast the requirements in a way that facilitates their straightforward mapping to architectures. Furthermore, the approach allows us to capture and maintain arbitrarily complex relationships between requirements and architectural artifacts, as well as across different CBSP artifacts. We have extensively applied CBSP within the context of particular requirements and architecture definition techniques, EasyWinWin and C2. We leverage that experience to demonstrate the CBSP method and tool support using a large-scale example that highlights the transition from an EasyWinWin requirements negotiation into a C2-style architectural model.

Molecular engineering of C60-based conjugated oligomer ensembles: modulating the competition between photoinduced energy and electron transfer processes.

Abstract: A series of novel and soluble C 60 -(π-conjugated oligomer) dyads were synthesized, starting from suitably functionalized oligomer precursors (i.e., dihexyloxynaphthalene, dihexyloxynaphthalenethiophene, and dihexyloxybenzene-thiophene). A systematic change in the nature of the oligomeric component allowed (i) tailoring the light absorption of the chromophore by shifting the ground-state absorption from the ultraviolet to the visible region and (ii) varying the oxidation potential of the donor. The resulting electro- and photoactive dyads were examined by electrochemical and photophysical means. In general, both singlet-singlet energy transfer and intramolecular electron transfer were found to take place and, most importantly, to compete with each other in the overall deactivation of the photoexcited oligomer. The selection of polar solvents in combination with the dihexyloxybenzene-thiophene donor shifted the reactivity from an all energy (la; dihexyloxynaphthalene) to an all electron-transfer scenario (1d, dihexyloxybenzene-thiophene). Encouraged by the favorable electron-transfer properties of dyad 1d, we prepared photodiodes by embedding 1d between asymmetric metal contacts, which showed external monochromatic efficiencies (IPCE) close to 10% at the maximum absorption of the molecule.