We mark up a corpus of LTEX lecture notes semantically and expose them as Linked Data in XHTML+MathML+RDFa. Our application makes the resulting documents interactively browsable for students. Our ontology helps to answer queries from students and lecturers, and paves the path towards an integration of our corpus with external sites. 1 Application: Computer Science Lecture Notes Over the last se...

Empirically the coercive field needed to reverse the polarization in a ferroelectric increases with decreasing film thickness. For ferroelectric films of 100 microns to 100 nanometers in thickness the coercive field has been successfully described by a semi-empirical scaling law. Accounting for depolarization corrections, we show that this scaling behavior is consistent with field measurements ...

Two formats of all-organic distributed-feedback lasers with improved photostability, respectively called nanocomposite and encapsulated lasers, are reported. These lasers are compatible with mechanically-flexible platforms and were entirely fabricated using softlithography and spin-coating techniques. The gain elements in both types of lasers were monodisperse π-conjugated star-shaped macromole...

Traditional electrical interconnections for chip-to-chip transmission have been facing several critical challenges for years [1, 2]. First, the continuing scaling down of electronic device brings a lot of problems to conventional metal interconnects -the degradation of the wire performance, the power dissipation, and the signal integrity. Second, for data transmissions between chips, the perfor...

Almost all aspects of scientific research and communication are now supported by software systems. Even though most of these systems allow the user to specify interaction preferences or even employ user modeling techniques, every system is an island with this respect. In particular, different systems cannot share user models or predict in the absence of prior interactions. We use ideas from the...

Scanning micro-Raman spectroscopy has been utilized to image and investigate strain in He-implanted congruent LiNbO3 samples. By using abruptly patterned implanted samples, we show that the spatial twodimensional mapping of the Raman spectral peaks can be used to image the strain distribution and determine its absolute magnitude. We demonstrate that both shortand long-range length-scale in-plan...

In situ identification of COPD cases at workplace and sample assessment for oxidative stress/ DNA damage as a function of metabolic/antioxidant genotypes (as susceptibility genotypes) offers a novel manner of hazardous workplace-identification for genotoxic/carcinogenic events. In this case-control study, blood/ sera samples of the COPD cases (n=32 identified spirometrically among the stone-cru...

The physical properties of materials as they progress from the bulk to the nanoscale regime (1-100 nm) continue to be of immense interest and increasing importance for future technological applications. Nanocrystals display properties generally found to be scientifically different from the bulk material or the atomic or molecular species from which they can be derived. Examples of this phenomen...