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In the present work, a set of ZrO2 thin films have been deposited at 82 degree angle of deposition at several substrate rotation speeds and at 0 degree. The effect of substrate rotation on optical, structural, morphological properties and…
Na-ion conduction, and correlations between Na-ion conduction pathways and crystal structure have been investigated as a function of temperature in the layered battery material Na2Ni2TeO6 by impedance spectroscopy and neutron diffraction,…
The sputtering of hexagonal boron nitride due to low energy xenon ion bombardments occurs in various applications including fabrication of cubic boron nitride and erosion of Hall thruster channel walls. At low ion energies, accurate…
We report the influence of crystalline defects introduced by 6 MeV $^{16}$O$^{3+}$ irradiation on the critical current densities J$_c$ and flux creep rates in 1.3 $\mu$m thick GdBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-d}$ coated conductor produced by…
In order to get homogeneous nanostructured Aluminum Nitride deposits, thin films were grown at room temperature on [001] Si substrates by radio frequency magnetron reactive sputtering. The deposits were analysed by Transmission Electron…
Al-doped ZnO thin films were deposited using reactive high power impulse magnetron sputtering at substrate temperatures between room temperature and 600 $\bullet$ C. Two sample series with different oxygen partial pressures were studied.…
Though significant advances have been made in the field of metal nanostructures, researchers are yet to synthesize one atom thin two-dimensional 2D gold nanostructures. We report, for the first time, a technique to synthesize one atom thin…
We discovered that spin-orbit scattering in strong-disordered gold nanojunctions is strongly suppressed relative to that in weak-disordered gold thin films. This property is unusual because in weak-disordered films, spin-orbit scattering…
Spin current injection from sputtered yttrium iron garnet (YIG) films into an adjacent platinum layer has been investigated by means of the spin pumping and the spin Seebeck effects. Films with a thickness of 83 and 96 nanometers were…
We have investigated properties of superconducting titanium nitride (TiN) films that were sputtered over a large range of RF-induced DC bias voltage applied to the substrate. Films grown with the largest bias voltages contained cubic TiN…
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Ion sputtering induced nanoscale pattern formation on Ge (001) surface by 500 eV Ar+ bombardment has been investigated for a wide range of ion incidence angles at temperature of 300 deg.C. A fourfold symmetric topography forms in the…
We analyze Suzaku and XMM-Newton data of the highly variable Seyfert 2, IRAS 18325-5926. The spectra of the source are well modeled as a primary component described as an absorbed power law and a secondary power law component which is…
For a detailed study on the semiconductor to metal transition (SMT) in ZnO thin films doped with Al in the concentration range from 0.02 to 2%, we grew these films on (0001) sapphire substrates using sequential pulsed laser deposition. It…
The effect of the deposition of kinetic energy and neutralization energy of slow highly charged xenon ions on the process of the nanostructures creation at the surface of gold nanolayers is investigated. The nanolayers of thickness of 100…
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The present work reports the study of the optimized processing conditions of Bi0.9La0.1Fe0.9Mn0.1O3 thin films, grown by RF sputtering on platinum metalized silicon substrates. The combination of deposition at relatively low substrate…
The yield of electrons generated by gold nanoparticles due to irradiation by fast charged projectiles is estimated. The results of calculations are compared to those obtained for pure water medium. It is demonstrated that a significant…
In-situ monitoring and calibration of nano-sculptured thin film thickness is a critical problem due to substrate tilt angle dependent porosity and mass flux. In this letter we present an analytical model for thickness dependence on…
We report a magnetotransport study of spin relaxation in 1.4-21.2 nm epitaxial SrIrO$_3$ thin films coherently strained on SrTiO$_3$ substrates. Fully charge compensated semimetallic transport has been observed in SrIrO$_3$ films thicker…