Sub-10 nm colloidal lithography for circuit-integrated spin-photo-electronic devices

• Adrian Iovan,
• Marco Fischer,
• Roberto Lo Conte and
• Vladislav Korenivski

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 884–892, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.98

• technique using spin-torque and spin-flip photoemission material combinations, considered promising for gigahertz oscillators and terahertz lasers. Results and Discussion Self-assembled monolayer of nanoparticles The most widely used colloidal lithography medium is polystyrene nanoparticles in aqueous

Pure hydrogen low-temperature plasma exposure of HOPG and graphene: Graphane formation?

• Baran Eren,
• Dorothée Hug,
• Laurent Marot,
• Rémy Pawlak,
• Marcin Kisiel,
• Roland Steiner,
• Dominik M. Zumbühl and
• Ernst Meyer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 852–859, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.96

• graphite (HOPG) were exposed to a pure hydrogen low-temperature plasma (LTP). Characterizations include various experimental techniques such as photoelectron spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy and scanning probe microscopy. Our photoemission measurement shows that hydrogen LTP exposed HOPG has a diamond-like

• ' peaks of the Raman spectra, atomic force microscopy (AFM) and photoemission spectroscopy of HOPG were conducted before and after exposing it to plasma. Although the pristine HOPG exhibits a relatively flat surface, the hydrogen-plasma-exposed HOPG shows two important differences: (i) The surface becomes

• transferred to the photoemission chamber without breaking the high-vacuum conditions. The base pressure in the chamber was around 1 × 10−7 Pa during acquisition. A normal electron escape angle (i.e., polar angle = 0°) and a step size of 0.025 eV were used. The Au 4f7/2 line was measured at a binding energy of

Towards atomic resolution in sodium titanate nanotubes using near-edge X-ray-absorption fine-structure spectromicroscopy combined with multichannel multiple-scattering calculations

• Carla Bittencourt,
• Peter Krüger,
• Maureen J. Lagos,
• Xiaoxing Ke,
• Gustaaf Van Tendeloo,
• Chris Ewels,
• Polona Umek and
• Peter Guttmann

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 789–797, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.88

• hydrothermal process used to synthesize the tubes, the binding energy of Ti 2p photoemission lines are shifted slightly to lower binding energy, showing that the local environment around the Ti ions in the (Na,H)TiNTs is different from that in the anatase-type TiO2 (see also Supporting Information File 1

• , Figure S1). The absence of extra peaks or broadening of the Ti 2p photoemission lines suggest that the chemical environment of the Ti ions does not change during the hydrothermal treatment of TiO2. The Ti L-edge shows two groups of peaks arising from the spin-orbit splitting of the Ti 2p core level into

Junction formation of Cu₃BiS₃ investigated by Kelvin probe force microscopy and surface photovoltage measurements

• Fredy Mesa,
• William Chamorro,
• William Vallejo,
• Robert Baier,
• Thomas Dittrich,
• Alexander Grimm,
• Martha C. Lux-Steiner and
• Sascha Sadewasser

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 277–284, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.31

• with Al, deposited by dc magnetron sputtering [21]. For analysis by Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) [7], surface photovoltage (SPV), and X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS), sample contact was established at the Al back contact. CdS thin films were deposited onto the Cu3BiS3 layers from a

X-ray spectroscopy characterization of self-assembled monolayers of nitrile-substituted oligo(phenylene ethynylene)s with variable chain length

• Hicham Hamoudi,
• Ping Kao,
• Alexei Nefedov,
• David L. Allara and
• Michael Zharnikov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 12–24, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.2

• shoulder, is related to a weaker screening of the photoemission hole upon its larger separation from the substrate. This behaviour is distinctly different from the behaviour of the S 2p spectra, in which the position of the thiolate-related doublet is independent of the backbone length. This is

• photoemission signal [47], and by using the attenuation lengths reported in [48]. The spectrometer-specific coefficient was calculated on the basis of the analogous procedure performed for the reference DDT and HDT films, the thickness of which is well known [49][50]. By using this approach, the effective

• maximum (fwhm) of the photoemission peaks of the S 2p, C 1s, and N 1s spectra. HRXPS spectra were fitted by symmetric Voigt functions and either a Shirley-type or linear background. To fit the S 2p3/2,1/2 doublets we used a pair of such peaks with the same fwhm, a branching ratio of 2 (2p3/2/2p1/2), and

Femtosecond time-resolved photodissociation dynamics of methyl halide molecules on ultrathin gold films

• Mihai E. Vaida,
• Robert Tchitnga and
• Thorsten M. Bernhardt

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 618–627, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.65

• surface were exposed to the full spectrum of an Hg arc lamp. The photodissociation and the desorption of the molecules from the surface was subsequently monitored by means of X-ray photoemission spectroscopy. White and coworkers reported that only 10% of the first CH3I layer adsorbed on the Pt(111

Simple theoretical analysis of the photoemission from quantum confined effective mass superlattices of optoelectronic materials

• Debashis De,
• Sitangshu Bhattacharya,
• S. M. Adhikari,
• A. Kumar,
• P. K. Bose and
• K. P. Ghatak

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 339–362, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.40

• Electronics and Instrumentation, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Majitar, Rangpo, East Sikkim-737136, India National Institute of Technology, Agartala, Tripura-799055,India 10.3762/bjnano.2.40 Abstract The photoemission from quantum wires and dots of effective mass superlattices of optoelectronic

• materials was investigated on the basis of newly formulated electron energy spectra, in the presence of external light waves, which controls the transport properties of ultra-small electronic devices under intense radiation. The effect of magnetic quantization on the photoemission from the aforementioned

• superlattices, together with quantum well superlattices under magnetic quantization, has also been investigated in this regard. It appears, taking HgTe/Hg1−xCdxTe and InxGa1−xAs/InP effective mass superlattices, that the photoemission from these quantized structures is enhanced with increasing photon energy in

Effect of large mechanical stress on the magnetic properties of embedded Fe nanoparticles

• Srinivasa Saranu,
• Sören Selve,
• Ute Kaiser,
• Luyang Han,
• Ulf Wiedwald,
• Paul Ziemann and
• Ulrich Herr

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 268–275, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.31

• minimum energy configuration, which would also lead to a reduction of the Mr/Ms ratio. A recent study of the properties of individual Fe nanoparticles by photoemission spectroscopy [33] indicates that, depending on the size of the nanoparticles, different spin structures may result. It should be mentioned

Preparation, properties and applications of magnetic nanoparticles

• Ulf Wiedwald and
• Paul Ziemann

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 21–23, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.4

• Photoemission Electron Microscopy with element-specific magnetic contrast (X-PEEM) [9]. Thus, at the moment one mostly has to rely on ensemble averages and, consequently, this again poses strong requirements on preparation with respect to narrow distributions whenever size dependent properties play a role. This