Electron-beam induced deposition and autocatalytic decomposition of Co(CO)₃NO

• Florian Vollnhals,
• Martin Drost,
• Fan Tu,
• Esther Carrasco,
• Andreas Späth,
• Rainer H. Fink,
• Hans-Peter Steinrück and
• Hubertus Marbach

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1175–1185, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.129

• brightness of the deposits and the cluster growth mode are in line with the autocatalytic growth of EBID deposits upon dosage of additional Co(CO)3NO. The samples were further characterized at the PolLux soft X-ray STXM beamline [28] at the Swiss Light Source using a zone plate with a nominal resolution of

Towards precise defect control in layered oxide structures by using oxide molecular beam epitaxy

• Federico Baiutti,
• Georg Christiani and
• Gennady Logvenov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 596–602, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.70

• -layer growth mode is achieved. The STO substrate was TiO2 terminated by etching in buffered HF acid and a following annealing at 950 °C in oxygen flow. The LSAO substrate was simply cleaned in an ultrasonic bath with aceton and following isopropanol without special treatment for surface termination

Atomic layer deposition, a unique method for the preparation of energy conversion devices

• Julien Bachmann

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 245–248, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.26

• ’: each reaction deposits an amount of material defined by the availability of surface reactive groups, not by the (local) partial pressure of gaseous precursors. This growth mode circumvents mass transport as the rate-limiting factor of the increase of the film thickness, thereby allowing for a

Template based precursor route for the synthesis of CuInSe₂ nanorod arrays for potential solar cell applications

• Mikhail Pashchanka,
• Jonas Bang,
• Niklas S. A. Gora,
• Ildiko Balog,
• Rudolf C. Hoffmann and
• Jörg J. Schneider

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 868–874, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.98

• remains questionable. Earlier, template-based solution precursor routes were demonstrated to be useful as a fully controllable, simple and inexpensive alternative to vacuum techniques that operate in the VLS growth mode. Large arrays of vertically aligned CISe nanowires were fabricated by

Ni nanocrystals on HOPG(0001): A scanning tunnelling microscope study

• Michael Marz,
• Keisuke Sagisaka and
• Daisuke Fujita

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 406–417, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.48

• Michael Marz Keisuke Sagisaka Daisuke Fujita National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba-city Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan Physikalisches Institut, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT), 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany 10.3762/bjnano.4.48 Abstract The growth mode of small Ni

• reported [1]. Keywords: clusters; growth mode; Ni; nickel; Introduction Metallic nanoparticles have been widely studied in the past few decades owing to their broad range of applications, such as catalysis [2][3][4], quantum dots [5] or chemical sensors [6]. Moreover, nano particles consisting of only

• annealing the single-crystalline clusters mainly grow in height whereas their width seems to be less affected. These two regions are also distinguishable within a simple analysis of the diffusion process. Concluding the discussion about the growth mode and annealing behaviour of the Ni-clusters, we want to

Dipole-driven self-organization of zwitterionic molecules on alkali halide surfaces

• Laurent Nony,
• Franck Bocquet,
• Franck Para,
• Frédéric Chérioux,
• Eric Duverger,
• Frank Palmino,
• Vincent Luzet and
• Christian Loppacher

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 285–293, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.32

• intermolecular π-stacking of the organic molecules. Although for certain molecules π-stacking can lead to the formation of one-dimensional wires [3], in general, for organic–inorganic heteroepitaxy (OIHE) on insulating substrates the growth mode is often governed by a dewetting process [4] as the MM interaction

Parallel- and serial-contact electrochemical metallization of monolayer nanopatterns: A versatile synthetic tool en route to bottom-up assembly of electric nanocircuits

• Jonathan Berson,
• Assaf Zeira,
• Rivka Maoz and
• Jacob Sagiv

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 134–143, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.14

• –2 nm. On small dotlike template sites, this metal growth mode yields discrete Ag nanodots (Figure 2 and Figure 3, top row), whereas continuous Ag nanowires with a bamboolike structure of higher and lower metal features are formed on narrow template lines (Figure 3, middle row left). Identical

Self-assembled monolayers and titanium dioxide: From surface patterning to potential applications

• Yaron Paz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 845–861, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.94

• , whereas a three-dimensional growth mode was found on SAM-coated substrates with low surface energy. The high affinity between OH groups and the titania precursor was later utilized for the growth of patterned domains of titania on patterned OH-terminated alkanethiolate monolayers on gold [48]. SAMs as a

Nanoscaled alloy formation from self-assembled elemental Co nanoparticles on top of Pt films

• Luyang Han,
• Ulf Wiedwald,
• Johannes Biskupek,
• Kai Fauth,
• Ute Kaiser and
• Paul Ziemann

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 473–485, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.51

• values of 1–2 nm) enabling homogeneous deposition of NPs over the entire sample surface. Despite the island growth mode of Pt(100) when deposited at elevated temperature and the resulting increased roughness (cf. Figure 2), each single island has an almost atomically flat surface (RMS roughness of 0.3 nm

Dense lying self-organized GaAsSb quantum dots on GaAs for efficient lasers

• Thomas H. Loeber,
• Dirk Hoffmann and
• Henning Fouckhardt

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 333–338, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.39

• × 1010 cm−2 was achieved in the SK epitaxial growth mode, with a V/III flux ratio of 1/1 at a growth temperature of T = 527 °C and nominal coverage of 3 ML. With increasing V/III ratio the dot size also increased. Only one PL peak was detected, attributable to the quantum dot nature; no further peak

Structure, morphology, and magnetic properties of Fe nanoparticles deposited onto single-crystalline surfaces

• Armin Kleibert,
• Wolfgang Rosellen,
• Mathias Getzlaff and
• Joachim Bansmann

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 47–56, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.6

• physical approaches, the thermodynamics and the kinetics of the growth mode or – when depositing preformed clusters/nanoparticles on a surface – the landing kinetics and subsequent relaxation processes have a strong impact and thus need to be considered when attempting to control magnetic and structural

Oriented growth of porphyrin-based molecular wires on ionic crystals analysed by nc-AFM

• Thilo Glatzel,
• Lars Zimmerli,
• Shigeki Kawai,
• Ernst Meyer,
• Leslie-Anne Fendt and
• Francois Diederich

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 34–39, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.4

• increased molecule coverages, two-dimensional arrays start to grow away from the steps across the terraces. The preferred growth orientation is the (110) direction on KBr while on NaCl also assemblies oriented in (100) direction are found. The different growth mode is directed by the lattice spacing of the