敏捷服务工程标准(英文)

Similar to the software industry there are different models for the development,testing and management of services described in literature.The authors of this paper discuss the term of agility,show the boundaries of the Service Engineering proceedings described in literature,show how organizations are in permanent change and development and how this will influence the Service Engineering processes.Furthermore a theoretical design of an agile method for Service Engineering is presented.

Quantum-mechanical effects in photoluminescence from thin crystalline gold films

Luminescence constitutes a unique source of insight into hot carrier processes in metals,including those in plasmonic nanostructures used for sensing and energy applications.However,being weak in nature,metal luminescence remains poorly understood,its microscopic origin strongly debated,and its potential for unraveling nanoscale carrier dynamics largely unexploited.Here,we reveal quantum-mechanical effects in the luminescence emanating from thin monocrystalline gold flakes.Specifically,we present experimental evidence,supported by first-principles simulations,to demonstrate its photoluminescence origin(i.e.,radiative emission from electron/hole recombination)when exciting in the interband regime.Our model allows us to identify changes to the measured gold luminescence due to quantum-mechanical effects as the gold film thickness is reduced.Excitingly,such effects are observable in the luminescence signal from flakes up to 40 nm in thickness,associated with the out-of-plane discreteness of the electronic band structure near the Fermi level.We qualitatively reproduce the observations with first-principles modeling,thus establishing a unified description of luminescence in gold monocrystalline flakes and enabling its widespread application as a probe of carrier dynamics and light-matter interactions in this material.Our study paves the way for future explorations of hot carriers and charge-transfer dynamics in a multitude of material systems.

Simple route toward efficient frequency conversion for generation of fully coherent supercontinua in the mid-IR and UV range

Fiber supercontinua represent light sources of pivotal importance for a wide range of applications,ranging from optical communications to frequency metrology.Although spectra encompassing more than three octaves can be produced,the applicability of such spectra is strongly hampered due to coherence degradation during spectral broadening.Assuming pulse parameters at the cutting edge of currently available laser technology,we demonstrate the possibility of strongly coherent supercontinuum generation.In a fiber with two zero-dispersion wavelengths a higher-order soliton experiences a temporal breakdown,without any compression or splitting behavior,which leads to nearly complete conversion of input solitonic radiation into resonant nonsolitonic radiation in the dispersive wave regime.As the process is completely deterministic and shows little sensitivity to input noise,the resulting pulses appear to be compressible down to the sub-cycle level and may thus hold a new opportunity for direct generation of attosecond pulses in the visible to near ultraviolet wavelength range.