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The deposition of atomically thin highly uniform chemically derived graphene (CDG) films on 300 mm SiO2/Si wafers is reported. We demonstrate that the very thin films can be lifted off to form uniform membranes than can be free-standing or…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-12-11 Hisato Yamaguchi , Goki Eda , Cecilia Mattevi , HoKwon Kim , Manish Chhowalla

We report on the structural properties of epitaxial FeO layers grown by molecular beam epitaxy on MgO(111). The successful stabilization of polar FeO films as thick as 16 monolayers (ML), obtained by deposition and subsequent oxidation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 Jacek Gurgul , Ewa Młyńczak , Nika Spiridis , Józef Korecki

We explore the molecular beam epitaxy synthesis of superconducting aluminum thin films grown on c-plane sapphire substrates at cryogenic temperatures of 6 K and compare their behavior with films synthesized at room temperature. We…

MnGe has been grown as a thin film on Si(111) substrates by molecular beam epitaxy. A 10 \AA\ layer of MnSi was used as seedlayer in order to establish the B20 crystal structure. Films of a thickness between 45 and 135 \AA\ have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 Josefin Engelke , Dirk Menzel , Vadim Dyadkin

ZrO2:10%SiO2 thinfilms have been deposited on fused silica substrate by reactive electron beam co-evaporation technique at different oxygen partial pressure. The structural analysis shows tetragonal phase with residual tensile stress in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-22 S. Jena , R. B. Tokas , S. Thakur , N. K. Sahoo

Pulsed laser deposition from a Nd:YAG laser was employed in production of hundreds of nanometer thick quasicrystalline Ti-Zr-Ni films on glass substrate. The influence of deposition temperature Ts on the structure, morphology and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-26 Valerie Brien , A. Dauscher , P. Weisbecker , J. Ghanbaja , F Machizaud

Thin films of potassium doped C60, an organic semiconductor, have been grown on silicon. The films were grown in ultra-high vacuum by thermal evaporation of C60 onto oxide-terminated silicon as well as reconstructed Si(111). The substrate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Rogge , M. Durkut , T. M. Klapwijk

In the present study we report on properties of ZnCoO films grown at relatively low temperature by the Atomic Layer Deposition, using two reactive organic zinc precursors (dimethylzinc and diethylzinc). The use of these precursors allowed…

The thermal deposition and transfer Printing method had been used to produce pentacene thin-films on SiO2/Si and plastic substrates (PMMA and PVP), respectively. X-ray diffraction patterns of pentacene thin films showed reflections…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Shao , S. A. Solin , D. R. Hines , E. D. Williams

In this paper, the dynamics of bias stress phenomenon in Sexithiophene (T6) Field Effect Transistors (FETs) has been investigated. T6 FETs have been fabricated by vacuum depositing films with thickness from 10 nm to 130 nm on Si/SiO2…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 F. V. Di Girolamo , C. Aruta , M. Barra , P. D Angelo , A. Cassinese

Al2O3 thin films have been deposited at substrate temperatures between 500{\deg}C to 600{\deg}C by reactive magnetron sputtering using an additional arbitrary substrate bias to tailor the energy distribution of the incident ions. The films…

Amorphous silica (a-SiO2) exhibits unique thermo-mechanical behaviors that set it apart from other glasses. However, there is still limited understanding of how this mechanical behavior is related to the atomic structure and to the…

We have carried out scanning tunneling microscopy experiments under ultrahigh vacuum condition to study the morphology of ultrathin Ge films eposited on pristine Si(100) and ion-irradiated Si(100) self-affine fractal surfaces. The pristine…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 D. K. Goswami , K. Bhattacharjee , B. N. Dev

Stable non-crystalline toluene films of micrometer and nanometer thicknesses were grown by vapor deposition at distinct rates and probed by Fast Scanning Calorimetry. Fast scanning calorimetry is shown to be extremely sensitive to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-22 Deepanjan Bhattacharya , Vlad Sadtchenko

We present a joint theoretical and experimental study to investigate polymorphism in $\alpha$-sexithiophene (6T) crystals. By means of density-functional theory calculations, we clarify that the low-temperature phase is favorable over the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-29 Bernhard Klett , Caterina Cocchi , Linus Pithan , Stefan Kowarik , Claudia Draxl

Structural and optical studies have been performed on the thermally-evaporated "as-deposited" and "humid air aged" CsI thin films. The structural analysis for both "as-deposited" and "humid air aged" films shows a well-oriented peaks…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-27 Nabeel Jammal , Richa Rai , Triloki , B. K. Singh

We have statistically characterized the self-assembly of multi-layer polystyrene colloidal crystals, using the technique of vertical deposition, with parameters chosen to produce thick layers of self-assembled crystals in one deposition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-17 Tero J. Isotalo , Yao-Lan Tian , Mikko P. Konttinen , Ilari J. Maasilta

NbN films are grown on c-plane sapphire substrates by molecular beam epitaxy. The structural and superconducting properties of the film are characterized to demonstrate that growth parameters such as substrate temperature and active…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-29 John G. Wright , Huili G. Xing , Debdeep Jena

We have investigated the initial growth behavior and resulting microstructural properties of heteroepitaxial ZnO thin films prepared by pulsed laser deposition on sapphire (0001) substrates. High-resolution x-ray diffraction and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 C. Liu , S. H. Chang , T. W. Noh , M. Abouzaid , P. Ruterana , H. H. Lee , D. -W. Kim , J. -S. Chung

The bulk single crystals of $S = 1$ chain compound Ni(C$_3$H$_{10}$N$_2$)$_2$NO$_2$ClO$_4$ are grown by using a slow evaporation method at a constant temperature and a slow cooling method. It is found that the optimum condition of growing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-13 W. Tao , L. M. Chen , X. M. Wang , C. Fan , W. P. Ke , X. G. Liu , Z. Y. Zhao , Q. J. Li , X. F. Sun