Nanocomposite–parylene C thin films with high dielectric constant and low losses for future organic electronic devices

• Marwa Mokni,
• Gianluigi Maggioni,
• Abdelkader Kahouli,
• Sara M. Carturan,
• Walter Raniero and
• Alain Sylvestre

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 428–441, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.42

• are drawn from [56]. The two lines are guides for the eye. GIXRD spectra of pure and NCPC samples: left) the 2θ region of the main parylene peak; right) the entire 2θ range, which shows the effect of Ag incorporation on the structure of the films. The spectrum of sample F at 1° incidence angle is also

Transport signatures of an Andreev molecule in a quantum dot–superconductor–quantum dot setup

• Zoltán Scherübl,
• András Pályi and
• Szabolcs Csonka

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 363–378, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.36

• conductance GL in the left panel shows an eye-shaped resonance with two crossing points at zero bias. This characteristic resonance is the usual fingerprint of an ABS in a single QD (see, e.g., [35]). The resonance maps the excitation energy between the two lowest-energy eigenstates of the QDL-SC subsystem

• in a strong modification of the finite-bias conductance plots. This is shown in Figure 3b, for a general case with all three non-local coupling being finite, ΓCAR = 0.1U, γEC = 0.02 and tLR = 0.06U. The previously discussed features, i.e., the eye-shaped resonances in GL and the horizontal lines in

Relation between thickness, crystallite size and magnetoresistance of nanostructured La_1−xSr_xMn_yO_3±δ films for magnetic field sensors

• Rasuole Lukose,
• Valentina Plausinaitiene,
• Milita Vagner,
• Nerija Zurauskiene,
• Skirmantas Kersulis,
• Virgaudas Kubilius,
• Karolis Motiejuitis,
• Birute Knasiene,
• Voitech Stankevic,
• Zita Saltyte,
• Martynas Skapas,
• Algirdas Selskis and
• Evaldas Naujalis

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 256–261, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.24

• films (I and II series, the red line is a guide for the eye). (e) GIXRD patterns for the LSMO films of different thickness for the I series. The inset presents peaks and their shift with thickness for the II series. The stars represent the characteristic peaks of the Al2O3 substrate, the vertical lines

• ) TMI dependence on film thickness for both deposition series, black line is a guide for the eye. Inset – resistivity dependence on temperature for 370 nm thick LSMO films of the I and II series. SEM picture of LSMO films grown from (a) one supply source - I series; (b) two supply sources - II series

• ) one supply source and (e) two supply sources. (f) Magnetoresistance anisotropy dependence on film thickness for both deposition series. The lines are the guides for the eye. Acknowledgements R. Lukose and N. Zurauskiene acknowledges the funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and

Interaction of Te and Se interlayers with Ag or Au nanofilms in sandwich structures

• Arkadiusz Ciesielski,
• Lukasz Skowronski,
• Marek Trzcinski,
• Ewa Górecka,
• Wojciech Pacuski and
• Tomasz Szoplik

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 238–246, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.22

• that after four weeks, much more Te atoms have migrated into the silver layer, forming a more uniform mixture. The segregation-induced band, although weakly noticeable to the eye due to high values of the Im(ε) originating from the Drude term, is still present. It is red-shifted to around 760 nm – this

Study of silica-based intrinsically emitting nanoparticles produced by an excimer laser

• Imène Reghioua,
• Mattia Fanetti,
• Sylvain Girard,
• Diego Di Francesca,
• Simonpietro Agnello,
• Layla Martin-Samos,
• Marco Cannas,
• Matjaz Valant,
• Melanie Raine,
• Marc Gaillardin,
• Nicolas Richard,
• Philippe Paillet,
• Aziz Boukenter,
• Youcef Ouerdane and
• Antonino Alessi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 211–221, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.19

• for the Ge-doped samples only a few laser pulses (≈1 s of irradiation) were needed even at the lowest energy (33 mJ, sample A), to observe (by the naked eye) material removal; in the case of the pure silica samples, more pulses (10–20 s of irradiation) were needed and the irradiated parts become very

Threshold voltage decrease in a thermotropic nematic liquid crystal doped with graphene oxide flakes

• Mateusz Mrukiewicz,
• Krystian Kowiorski,
• Paweł Perkowski,
• Rafał Mazur and
• Małgorzata Djas

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 71–78, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.7

• . The inset shows the threshold voltage Uth-DS dependence of the GO concentration. Experimental data is presented as scattered points with the line as a guide for the eye. Electro-optical characteristics of the switching process in the cells with the 5CB-GO suspensions. Normalized light transmission as

Site-controlled formation of single Si nanocrystals in a buried SiO₂ matrix using ion beam mixing

• Xiaomo Xu,
• Thomas Prüfer,
• Daniel Wolf,
• Hans-Jürgen Engelmann,
• Lothar Bischoff,
• René Hübner,
• Karl-Heinz Heinig,
• Wolfhard Möller,
• Stefan Facsko,
• Johannes von Borany and
• Gregor Hlawacek

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2883–2892, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.267

• budget during the rapid thermal annealing (RTA) process (see text). The color coding of the points in (f) corresponds to the measured Si NC size. The white area in the center is a guide to the eye indicating the parameter space favorable for Si NC formation. Figure (e) corresponds to the best combination

Disorder in H⁺-irradiated HOPG: effect of impinging energy and dose on Raman D-band splitting and surface topography

• Lisandro Venosta,
• Noelia Bajales,
• Sergio Suárez and
• Paula G. Bercoff

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2708–2717, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.253

• , HD-LE and HD-HE). Pristine HOPG is shown for comparison. a) D band and D′ band and b) 2D band. Experimental points are shown as circles while the solid lines correspond to the fits. Deconvolution of a) D band and b) 2D band. The dotted vertical lines are drawn as a guide to the eye, at the peak

Nanostructured liquid crystal systems and applications

• Alexei R. Khokhlov and
• Alexander V. Emelyanenko

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2644–2645, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.245

• each pixel is synchronized with the operation of a light matrix in a way that red, green and blue colors propagate through the same pixel during a particular time. In this way, the human eye mixes all the colors in a particular proportion to obtain an arbitrary color. The elaboration of the field

Enhancement of X-ray emission from nanocolloidal gold suspensions under double-pulse excitation

• Wei-Hung Hsu,
• Frances Camille P. Masim,
• Armandas Balčytis,
• Hsin-Hui Huang,
• Tetsu Yonezawa,
• Aleksandr A. Kuchmizhak,
• Saulius Juodkazis and
• Koji Hatanaka

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2609–2617, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.242

• was fixed at E2 = 700 μJ. A positive z-shift corresponds to an upward movement of solution position towards the incoming laser pulse (see Figure 2a). The lines are guides to the eye. FDTD simulations of light-field enhancement under the conditions of the experiment: angle of incidence 60°, 800 nm

High-temperature magnetism and microstructure of a semiconducting ferromagnetic (GaSb)_1−x(MnSb)_x alloy

• Leonid N. Oveshnikov,
• Elena I. Nekhaeva,
• Alexey V. Kochura,
• Alexander B. Davydov,
• Mikhail A. Shakhov,
• Sergey F. Marenkin,
• Oleg A. Novodvorskii,
• Alexander P. Kuzmenko,
• Alexander L. Vasiliev,
• Boris A. Aronzon and
• Erkki Lahderanta

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2457–2465, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.230

• MFM data for the same sample and the black curve shows the temperature dependence of the saturation magnetization of the InSb–MnSb eutectic [17]. Room-temperature saturation magnetization (Msat) as a function of the carrier concentration (Np) (the dashed line is a guide to the eye). Magnetotransport

Directional light beams by design from electrically driven elliptical slit antennas

• Shuiyan Cao,
• Eric Le Moal,
• Quanbo Jiang,
• Aurélien Drezet,
• Serge Huant,
• Jean-Paul Hugonin,
• Gérald Dujardin and
• Elizabeth Boer-Duchemin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2361–2371, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.221

• , bull’s-eye, nanoparticle dimer, or wire antennas), coupled in the near field (or incorporating in their design) an electrically driven nanosource of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs, light waves coupled to electron density oscillations at a metal–dielectric interface). In particular, the electrical SPP

• few degrees [32][33] may be obtained from periodic microstructures (e.g., bull’s-eye antennas [34][35]), yet again with a strong dependence on frequency. Foremost, planar antennas with cylindrical symmetry, such as bull’s-eye [36] and patch antennas [37][38], invariably emit light in a beam or cone

Influence of the thickness of an antiferromagnetic IrMn layer on the static and dynamic magnetization of weakly coupled CoFeB/IrMn/CoFeB trilayers

• Deepika Jhajhria,
• Dinesh K. Pandya and
• Sujeet Chaudhary

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2198–2208, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.206

• measured for a 10 nm thick single CoFeB layer. The dotted lines are guides to the eye. (a) ΔH as a function of the frequency with open symbols representing the experimental data and solid lines are fit to Equation 3 and Equation 4. (b) Dependence of αeff on tIrMn. (c) Variation of ΔH0 as a function of

• tIrMn. (d) Dependence of TMS strength (Γ) on tIrMn. The dotted lines are guides to the eye. αeff as a function of the inverse FM layer thickness 1/tCoFeB for different CoFeB/IrMn (2 nm)/CoFeB structures. (a) The easy-axis M–H loops of trilayers with varying tIrMn recorded at room temperature (inset

Synthesis of rare-earth metal and rare-earth metal-fluoride nanoparticles in ionic liquids and propylene carbonate

• Marvin Siebels,
• Lukas Mai,
• Laura Schmolke,
• Kai Schütte,
• Juri Barthel,
• Junpei Yue,
• Jörg Thomas,
• Bernd M. Smarsly,
• Anjana Devi,
• Roland A. Fischer and
• Christoph Janiak

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1881–1894, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.180

• (amd)3. The red and green bars are a guide to the eye on the binding-energy axis. Cyclic voltammetry of a half-cell with ErF3 as working electrode and lithium foil as counter electrode at the different cut-off potentials. The figures at the right represent magnifications of the two left figures. TEM

• )3. The red and green bars are a guide to the eye on the binding-energy axis. TEM images, particle-size histogram and EDX of 1.0 wt % Gd-NPs in PC from Gd(amd)3. HR-XPS of 1.0 wt % Gd-NPs in PC from Gd(amd)3. The red and green bars are a guide to the eye on the binding-energy axis. Synthesis of REF3

Absence of free carriers in silicon nanocrystals grown from phosphorus- and boron-doped silicon-rich oxide and oxynitride

• Daniel Hiller,
• Julian López-Vidrier,
• Keita Nomoto,
• Michael Wahl,
• Wolfgang Bock,
• Tomáš Chlouba,
• František Trojánek,
• Sebastian Gutsch,
• Margit Zacharias,
• Dirk König,
• Petr Malý and
• Michael Kopnarski

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1501–1511, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.141

• offsets created by locally Si3N4 and SiO2 embedded Si-nanowires [61]). P- and B-concentrations as measured by MCs+-SIMS as function of PH3 to SiH4 gas flow ratio, or respectively, as function of B2H6 to SiH4 gas flow ratio for both SRO and SRON PECVD-recipes. The lines are just a guide to the eye to

• B-concentration, in SRO and SRON, normalized to the respective dopant-free samples. For SRO:B-samples the PL-intensities are corrected for the excess-Si content (open purple circles show the raw data). Lines are just a guide to the eye. For both dopants it is obvious that significant PL-quenching

Preparation and morphology-dependent wettability of porous alumina membranes

• Dmitry L. Shimanovich,
• Alla I. Vorobjova,
• Daria I. Tishkevich,
• Alex V. Trukhanov,
• Maxim V. Zdorovets and
• Artem L. Kozlovskiy

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1423–1436, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.135

• triangles) – 65 µm; 4 (purple circles) – 75 µm. The inset shows an SEM image of the outer surface. The black dotted line is a polynomial fit shown as a guide to the eye for all data sets. Contact angle measurements for the back side of the PAM as a function of pore diameter for various membrane thicknesses

• . The black dotted lines are polynomial fits shown as a guide to the eye for selected data sets. Physical characteristics (average values) of the experimental samples (before etching, as-produced amorphous membrane). Contact angle values for as-made PAMs obtained in 0.3 M oxalic acid (type I and type II

Colorimetric detection of Cu²⁺ based on the formation of peptide–copper complexes on silver nanoparticle surfaces

• Gajanan Sampatrao Ghodake,
• Surendra Krishna Shinde,
• Rijuta Ganesh Saratale,
• Avinash Ashok Kadam,
• Ganesh Dattatraya Saratale,
• Asad Syed,
• Fuad Ameen and
• Dae-Young Kim

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1414–1422, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.134

• insets of Figure 5. The increase in absorbance intensity at 520 nm was successfully used to quantify Cu2+, with a low intensity associated with the yellow dispersed AgNPs and a high intensity associated with the red colored aggregates of AgNPs. Moreover, these changes can be quantified with the naked eye

• . Involvement of the deprotonated amide groups in the coordination of Cu2+ was recently reported [28]. The LOD of the casein peptide-AgNPs is much lower than that of comparable methods (Table 1). A distinct color change was detectable by the naked eye at the smallest Cu2+ concentration of 0.4 μM. This

• spectra using a UV–vis spectrophotometer. This paper designates the sensing application of water-dispersible casein peptide-capped AgNPs as a sensing probe for the colorimetric detection of Cu2+ ions in water samples, and the color change is visible with the naked eye. When compared with alternative

Andreev spectrum and supercurrents in nanowire-based SNS junctions containing Majorana bound states

• Jorge Cayao,
• Annica M. Black-Schaffer,
• Elsa Prada and
• Ramón Aguado

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1339–1357, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.127

• visible to the naked eye, due to the finite length and, thus, due to the presence of the outer MBSs. The low-energy spectrum as a function of the superconducting phase difference for different values of the Zeeman field in long SNS junctions is presented in Figure 5 for LS ≤ 2ξM. Additionally, we show in

Review on nanoparticles and nanostructured materials: history, sources, toxicity and regulations

• Jaison Jeevanandam,
• Ahmed Barhoum,
• Yen S. Chan,
• Alain Dufresne and
• Michael K. Danquah

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1050–1074, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.98

• human, animal, and plant activities by blocking and scattering the sunlight. The volcanically erupted particles may possess heavy metals that are toxic to humans [69]. The short-term effects of particles from volcanic eruptions include nose, throat, eye and skin irritations and bronchial symptoms, while

Gas-assisted silver deposition with a focused electron beam

• Luisa Berger,
• Katarzyna Madajska,
• Iwona B. Szymanska,
• Katja Höflich,
• Mikhail N. Polyakov,
• Jakub Jurczyk,
• Carlos Guerra-Nuñez and
• Ivo Utke

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 224–232, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.24

• line width of the FEB induced deposit was measured to 1 ± 0.1 µm by contrast to the eye. Figure 4b and 4c depict high magnification DF-STEM image of the top edge of the line. Particle numbers and sizes decrease towards the outer part of the line where the number of impinging electrons decreases. The

Laser-assisted fabrication of gold nanoparticle-composed structures embedded in borosilicate glass

• Nikolay Nedyalkov,
• Mihaela Koleva,
• Nadya Stankova,
• Rosen Nikov,
• Mitsuhiro Terakawa,
• Yasutaka Nakajima,
• Lyubomir Aleksandrov and
• Reni Iordanova

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2454–2463, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.244

• nanoparticles in glass samples, we irradiated the samples with four wavelengths emitted by the Nd:YAG nanosecond laser. For each wavelength, a different laser fluence and number of pulses were used. In the 266 nm wavelength case, a clear change of the glass color was visible to the naked eye, namely, the

• -pulse processing Laser irradiation of the glass samples by femtosecond laser pulses at 800 nm gave rise to distinct coloration of the processed zones. The effect was visible to the naked eye using a wide range of fluences, starting from about 0.2 J/cm2 up to the ablation threshold of about 2.6 J/cm2

Comparing postdeposition reactions of electrons and radicals with Pt nanostructures created by focused electron beam induced deposition

• Julie A. Spencer,
• Michael Barclay,
• Miranda J. Gallagher,
• Robert Winkler,
• Ilyas Unlu,
• Yung-Chien Wu,
• Harald Plank,
• Lisa McElwee-White and
• D. Howard Fairbrother

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2410–2424, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.240

• underneath. The white outlines drawn in (f) and (g) are a guide to the eye to show the location of the deposit. AES for a deposit created from cis-Pt(CO)2Cl2 (top spectrum) and then subjected to alternating treatments with atomic hydrogen (PH2 ≈ 5 × 10−7 Torr), and argon ion sputtering (PAr ≈ 5 × 10−8 Torr

Robust procedure for creating and characterizing the atomic structure of scanning tunneling microscope tips

• Sumit Tewari,
• Koen M. Bastiaans,
• Milan P. Allan and
• Jan M. van Ruitenbeek

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2389–2395, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.238

• points shown as red diamonds represent initial and final images of an adatom for 1000 mechanical annealing cycles. The black dashed curve is a guide to the eye showing an exponentially smooth transition to a circularly symmetric state.

Optical contrast and refractive index of natural van der Waals heterostructure nanosheets of franckeite

• Patricia Gant,
• Foad Ghasemi,
• David Maeso,
• Carmen Munuera,
• Elena López-Elvira,
• Riccardo Frisenda,
• David Pérez De Lara,
• Gabino Rubio-Bollinger,
• Mar Garcia-Hernandez and
• Andres Castellanos-Gomez

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2357–2362, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.235

• (where the performance of the human eye is better [28]) are 75, 260 and 450 nm. Conclusion In summary, we presented a study of the optical identification of franckeite that is intended to be used as a guide for other researchers working on exfoliated franckeite. Our results allow one to determine the

Imidazolium-based ionic liquids used as additives in the nanolubrication of silicon surfaces

• Patrícia M. Amorim,
• Ana M. Ferraria,
• Rogério Colaço,
• Luís C. Branco and
• Benilde Saramago

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1961–1971, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.197

• the lubricated tests, the same normal load and scanning speed. The number of cycles used was 3100. In these tests it was observed that, after a very short running in period, the friction coefficient (CoF) stabilizes at a value of 0.7. Clear wear tracks could be observed, even with unaided eye, after