Hybrid Electronic Systems

Technische Universität München

School of Computation, Information and Technology

Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Franz Kreupl

Master’s Thesis

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Abstract

A short abstract of the Diplomarbeit in English. Only about 4 sentences.

Kurzfassung

A short abstract of the Diplomarbeit in German. Only about 4 sentences.

Erklärung

Ich versichere hiermit, dass ich die vorliegende Arbeit selbstständig verfasst und keine anderen als die im Literaturverzeichnis angegebenen Quellen benutzt habe.

Alle Stellen, die wörtlich oder sinngemäß aus veröffentlichten oder noch nicht veröffentlichten Quellen entnommen sind, sind als solche kenntlich gemacht.

Die Zeichnungen oder Abbildungen in dieser Arbeit sind von mir selbst erstellt worden oder mit einem entsprechenden Quellennachweis versehen.

Diese Arbeit ist in gleicher oder ähnlicher Form noch bei keiner anderen Prüfungsbehörde eingereicht worden.

Augsburg, den [Datum]	Ed Finster

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction	3

Chapter 2 Master’s Thesis Layout	3

2.1.	Documents	3

2.2.	Chapter Layout	3

Chapter 3 Figures and Tables	3

3.1.	Figures	3

3.2.	Tables	3

Chapter 4 Use of References	3

4.1.	Labels	3

4.2.	Cross-References	3

4.3.	Literature References	3

Chapter 5 Document Settings	3

5.1.	Document	3

5.2.	Paper	3

5.3.	Latex Preamble	3

Chapter 6 Conclusions	3

Notation and Abbreviations	3

Listings	3

Introduction

This chapter should give a short overview about the whole Master’s Thesis. Explain the topic of the Master’s Thesis, eventually including the motivation. Each of the chapters of the Master’s Thesis should then be explained in one or two sentences, always using a reference. An example is given in the following.

Master’s Thesis Layout

In this chapter we give a short overview about the structure of the several documents of our template. We also show how a chapter within the Master’s Thesis should look like. Since the first page of a chapter never contains the page number, the LATEX command \thispagestyle{empty} is the first entry in each chapter

Documents

Each chapter or organizational part of this Diplomarbeit template has been written to aseparate document. Thus, we have the following files resulting:

Diplomarbeit.lyx: this file merges all the single chapter documents together and creates the complete document. To view the whole Diplomarbeit, this document has to be compiled.

Abstract.lyx: this file contains the English abstract.

Kurzfassung.lyx: this file contains the German Kurzfassung.

Introduction.lyx: this file contains the Introduction to the Diplomarbeit together with a quick overview about the following chapters. It should not be larger than 2 pages.

Chapter 1 - Chapter xx: these are the documents where the chapters of the Diplomarbeit are stored.

Outlook: this file contains the conclusions and the outlook of the Diplomarbeit.

Addendum: this file contains the List of Figures and Tables as well as some notations and the Literature References.

Annotation:

Please leave the Diplomarbeit.lyx file as it is. With this configuration, the Table of Contents gets a roman page numbering, and the genuine chapters have an arabic page numbering, again starting at 1. Please notice that an additional chapter is added by choosing Insert -> Include File with the setting Use Input. For each additional document entered, a new LATEX command \clearemptydoublepage has to be entered.

Chapter Layout

The Diplomarbeit is divided into Sections.

Subsection

You may also use Subsections and Subsubsections, but please take into account that the clearness of the document may not increase by using 5 hierarchy levels!

Paragraph*

For low-case headings, better use the Subsubsection* and Paragraph* format. These headings will not appear in the Table of contents.

Figures and Tables

Figures

Figures in Detail

When entering a figure in Lyx-documents, first a Figure Float (Menu Insert -> Floats ->Figure Float) has to be generated. Each figure has to have a small description below, and each figure has to be referenced in the text. Entering references is explained in Chapter 4. The figure is then entered in the new figure float (Menu Insert -> Figure). An example can be seen in Figure 3.1.

Figure 3.1: Example for a figure in Lyx. Figure caption explains in detail the figure and is more than a headline

If the Diplomarbeit contains many figures, it is better to create a separate folder where

all those figures can be stored.

Annotation

A reference to a chapter, section, figure or table always starts with a capital: Figure 3.1 or Chapter 3. For further information about references, please see Chapter 4.

Tables

Tables in Detail

The same procedure as for figures is made for tables. First, a table float is created, then the small explanation is entered, the reference label created, and finally, the table is entered (Menu Insert -> Table). An example with two rows and five columns is shown by Table 3.1.

Table 3.1: Example for a table in Lyx. Table caption explains in detail the table content

Use of References

In this chapter we explain the way references have to be entered and used within the

Diplomarbeit.

Labels

Labels in Detail

To be able to make references to chapters, sections, figures or tables, labels have to be entered in the lyx document. To enter a label, move the cursor to the corresponding place within the document and choose Insert -> Label from the menu bar. In the appearing box, you should enter the following:

XXX:AAA_BBB_CCC

XXX: this means the type of label you enter; this can be a section or a figure, for example; in the following, four different possible types are listed:

chap: for chapters

sec: for sections

fig: for figures

tab: for tables

AAA: this means the chapter where you enter the label

BBB: this means the section where you enter the label

CCC: this means the label name

An example of an entry in the label box could look like the following:

Cross-References

Cross References in Detail

The actual reference to a chapter or figure is made by entering a Cross-Reference (Menu Insert -> Cross-Reference). A box appears containing a list of all labels that exist in the document. If the labels have been entered in the way shown in Section 4.1 it is easy to distinguish between entries for figures or sections, for example.

If a reference shall be entered referencing a section or figure that is contained in another Lyx document (our Diplomarbeit template consists of several documents), this has to be performed the following way.

Open the document where the reference shall refer to.

Check if the label has already been entered.

Create a reference to this label in the document where the label is located.

Cut the appearing reference box from the document and paste it to the

document where the reference shall be in.

An example are these references to Section 3.1 in Chapter 3. Unfortunately I did not

find another way to create references to other documents.

Annotation

A reference to a chapter, section, figure or table always starts with a capital: Figure 3.1 or Chapter 3.

Literature References

For literature references, a bibliography file has to be created. A reference is the be

entered into the Lyx document by choosing Insert -> Citation Reference from the menu bar. In the appearing box the bibliography label can be entered. The bibliography file has then to be inserted in the Addendum document (Addendum.lyx). Examples for a literature references are [1] or [2].

Document Settings

In this Chapter we list all the settings that have been used for all documents of this

Diplomarbeit template.

Document

This section is about the settings of the Layout -> Document menu item.

Class: report

Pagestyle: headings

Fonts: palatino (we used this font since it looks a little different from the ordinary default one)

Font size: 12 (10 may also be used)

Language: american (if you write your Diplomarbeit in German, please change this setting in all documents)

PS Driver: default

Encoding: default

Default Skip: Medskip

Spacing: Single

Sides: two

Columns: one

Separation: Skip

Float Placement: hbtp

Section No. depth: 4

Table of Contents depth: 2

Paper

This section is about the settings of the Layout -> Paper menu item.

Papersize: default

Special: A4 very small margins (only portrait)

Orientation: Portrait

Latex Preamble

The Diplomarbeit.lyx file also contains additional information in the LATEX Preamble:

\newcommand{clearemptydoublepage}{\newpage{\pagestyle{empty}\cleardoublepage}} this command “\clearemptydoublepage” is used to ensure that a new chapter always starts on a right page; the command enters a blank page, if required

Conclusions

This chapter contains the conclusions made from the Master’s Thesis and an outlook to

further development, perhaps future work.

Notation and Abbreviations

This chapter contains tables where all abbreviations and other notations like mathematic

placeholders used in the Diplomarbeit are listed.

Listings

This chapter may contain some listings of source code that has been used for simulations,

for example.

The following sections contain the List of Figures, List of Tables and the Literature References. If the List of Figures, for example, becomes very large since many figures have been entered in the Diplomarbeit, the character size of the List of Figures can be reduced by marking the “List of Figures”-placeholder and changing Layout -> Character... -> Size to another value.

For the Bibliography Reference placeholder, we recommend “alpha” as setting for the

Style.

List of Figures

Figure 3.1: Example for a figure in Lyx	3

List of Tables

Table 3.1: Example for a table in Lyx	3

Bibliography

[1]	R. V. Seidel, A. P. Graham , J. Kretz , B. Rajasekharan , G. S. Duesberg , M. Liebau , E. Unger , F. Kreupl , and W. Hoenlein, Sub-20 nm Short Channel Carbon Nanotube Transistors, Nano Letters, 5(1), pp 147–150 (2005)

[2]	Franz Kreupl, Electronics: Carbon nanotubes finally deliver, Nature 484, pp. 321–322, (2012)