Phase velocities of surface acoustic waves in several boron nitride films were investigated by Brillouin light scattering. In the case of films with predominantly hexagonal crystal structure, grown under conditions close to the nucleation threshold of cubic BN, four independent elastic constants have been determined from the dispersion of the Rayleigh and the first Sezawa mode. The large elastic anisotropy of up to c11/c33 = 0.1 is attributed to a pronounced texture with the c-axes of the crystallites parallel to the film plane. In the case of cubic BN films the dispersion of the Rayleigh wave provides evidence for the existence of a more compliant layer at the substrate-film interface. The observed broadening of the Rayleigh mode is identified to be caused by the film morphology.

FeNi/FeMn exchange bias samples with a large exchange bias field at room temperature have been prepared on a Cu buffer layer. Upon irradiation with He ions, both the exchange bias field and the coercive field are modified. For low ion doses the exchange bias field is enhanced by nearly a factor of 2. Above a threshold dose of 0.3olsi 10 15 ions/cm 2 , the exchange bias field decreases continuously as the ion dose increases. The ob-served modifications are explained in terms of defect creation acting as pinning sites for domain walls and atomic intermixing.

Der Trend der letzten Jahre im CAx-Bereich geht eindeutig in Richtung 3D-Modellierung. Der Einsatz dieser Technologie ist jedoch erst dann wirtschaftlich sinnvoll, wenn die generierten Daten nicht ausschließlich als Ersatz für 2D-Zeichnungen dienen, sondern während des gesamten Produkt-entstehungsprozesses eingesetzt werden und auf diese Weise Datendurchgängigkeit gewährleistet wird. Mittlerweile wird ein umfangreiches Spektrum von Anwendungen eingesetzt. Beispielhaft sei-en hier Berechnungs- und Simulationsprogramme oder die 3D-Produktvisualisierung in nicht-technischen Bereichen (z. B. Marketing, Vertrieb) genannt. Viele CA-Systeme bieten zwar eine große Auswahl an Modulen für nahezu alle Bereiche der Produktentwicklung, allerdings ist kein System, unabhängig von seiner Komplexität, in der Lage, alle Anforderungen seiner Anwender zu erfüllen. Deshalb kommen in immer größerem Umfang spezielle Programme für individuelle Probleme zum Einsatz. Der Anwender sieht sich jedoch mit Schwierigkeiten konfrontiert, wenn er versucht, für spezielle Probleme spezielle Anwendungen unterschiedlicher Systemhersteller einzusetzen. Um die Integrati-on der verschiedenen Programme zu ermöglichen, muß er sich auf neutrale Standardschnittstellen für den Produktdatenaustausch (IGES, VDAFS, STEP) verlassen, wobei hier mit Informationsverlusten zu rechnen ist. Außerdem muß er sich mit differierenden Benutzerführungen vertraut machen. Im Bewußtsein dieser Probleme entwickelte die Arbeitsgruppe "CAD/CAM-Strategien der deut-schen Automobilindustrie" einen Vorschlag für eine offene CAx-Systemarchitektur /1/, /2/, /3/. Diese sollte in der Lage sein, alle CAx-Komponenten, die im Laufe des Produktent-stehungsprozesses verwendet werden, zu integrieren. Es sollte unter anderem die folgenden Anforderungen erfüllen: ° Offenheit ° Interoperabilität ° Investitionssicherheit ° Aufhebung der Zwangsbindung des Anwenders an einen Systemhersteller ° Vermeidung redundanter Systeme Die Berücksichtigung der internationalen Standards STEP für den Bereich der Produktdatenmo-dellierung und CORBA für den Bereich der verteilten objektorientierten Systeme, die in den folgen-den Abschnitten kurz dargestellt sind, war für die Erfüllung dieser Anforderungen eine wichtige Voraussetzung

In this paper we complete the proof began by A. Polishchuk and E. Zaslow of a weak version of Kontsevich's symmetry conjecture for elliptic curves.

Power-ordered sets are not always lattices. In the case of distributive lattices we give a description by disjoint of chains. Finite power-ordered sets have a polarity. We introduct the leveled lattices and show examples with trivial tolerance. Finally we give a list of Hasse diagrams of power-ordered sets.

Starting with general hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, a special sub - class is extracted in which classical solutions can be expressed in terms of a linear transport equation. A characterizing property of this sub - class which contains, for example, all linear systems and non - linear scalar equations, is the existence of so called exponentially exact entropies.

The paper concerns the equilibrium state of ultra small semiconductor devices. Due to the quantum drift diffusion model, electrons and holes behave as a mixture of charged quantum fluids. Typically the involved scaled Plancks constants of holes, \(\xi\), is significantly smaller than the scaled Plancks constant of electrons. By setting formally \(\xi=0\) a well-posed differential-algebraic system arises. Existence and uniqueness of an equilibrium solution is proved. A rigorous asymptotic analysis shows that this equilibrium solution is the limit (in a rather strong sense) of quantum systems as \(\xi \to 0\). In particular the ground state energies of the quantum systems converge to the ground state energy of the differential-algebraic system as \(\xi \to 0\).

The aim of this article is to show that moment approximations of kinetic equations based on a Maximum Entropy approach can suffer from severe drawbacks if the kinetic velocity space is unbounded. As example, we study the Fokker Planck equation where explicit expressions for the moments of solutions to Riemann problems can be derived. The quality of the closure relation obtained from the Maximum Entropy approach as well as the Hermite/Grad approach is studied in the case of five moments. It turns out that the Maximum Entropy closure is even singular in equilibrium states while the Hermite/Grad closure behaves reasonably. In particular, the admissible moments may lead to arbitrary large speeds of propagation, even for initial data arbitrary close to global eqilibrium.

In this paper we construct a multiscale solution method for the gravimetry problem, which is concerned with the determination of the earth's density distribution from gravitational measurements. For this purpose isotropic scale continuous wavelets for harmonic functions on a ball and on a bounded outer space of a ball, respectively, are constructed. The scales are discretized and the results of numerical calculations based on regularization wavelets are presented. The obtained solutions yield topographical structures of the earth's surface at different levels of localization ranging from continental boundaries to local structures such as Ayer's Rock and the Amazonas area.

Linear viscoelastic properties for a dilute polymer solution are predicted by modeling the solution as a suspension of non-interacting bead-spring chains. The present model, unline the Rouse model, can describe the solution's rheological behavior even when the solvent quality is good, since excluded volume effects are explicitly taken into account through a narrow Gaussian repulsive potential between pairs of beads in a bead-spring chain. The use of the narrow Gaussian potential, which tends to the more commonly used delta-function repulsive potential in the limit of a width parameter d going to zero, enables the performance of Brownian dynamics simulations. The simulations results, which describe the exact behavior of the model, indicate that for chains of arbitrary but finite length, a delta-function potential leads to equilibrium and zero shear rate properties which are identical to the predictions of the Rouse model. On the other hand, a non-zero value of d gives rise to a predictionof swelling at equilibrium, and an increase in zero shear rate properties relative to their Rouse model values. The use of a delta-function potential appears to be justified in the limit of infinite chain length. The exact simulation results are compared with those obtained with an approximate solution, which is based on the assumption that the non-equilibrium configurational distribution function is Gaussian. The Gaussian approximation is shown to be exact to first order in the strength of excluded volume interaction, and is used to explore long chain rheological properties by extrapolating results obtained numerically for finite chains, to the limit of infinite chain length.