Advancing nanolithography: a comprehensive review of materials for local anodic oxidation with AFM

• Matteo Lorenzoni

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2026, 17, 275–291, doi:10.3762/bjnano.17.19

• for the fabrication of graphene nanoribbons, quantum point contacts, and TMD nanotransistors by locally modulating conductivity or selectively removing material. 2.5.4 Graphene and graphene oxide. Interest in graphene peaked in the last decades, with several attempts to couple LAO with single/few

First-principles study of the structure of water layers on flat and stepped Pb electrodes

• Xiaohang Lin,
• Ferdinand Evers and
• Axel Groß

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 533–543, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.47

• realize a single-atom switch by reversibly manipulating atomic-scale quantum point contacts in an electrochemical environment resulting in a single-atom transistor [4][5][6][7] that exhibits an outstanding stability at room temperature. This opens attractive perspectives to prepare quantum devices based

Lifetime analysis of individual-atom contacts and crossover to geometric-shell structures in unstrained silver nanowires

• Christian Obermair,
• Holger Kuhn and
• Thomas Schimmel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 740–745, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.81

• Technology (KIT), 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany 10.3762/bjnano.2.81 Abstract We study the crossover of quantum point contacts from (i) individual-atom contacts to (ii) electronic-shell effects and finally to (iii) geometric-shell effects in electrochemically deposited silver contacts. The method allows the

• structure data of silver, and the growth mechanism of the nanowires is discussed. Keywords: nanowires; quantum point contacts; shell effect; silver; Introduction Recently, the first transistor on the atomic scale was demonstrated and generated much interest [1][2][3][4][5]. This atomic-scale transistor