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Epitaxial films which contains more than one crystallographic orientation are of interest due to the possibility of altered magnetic, electrical, and optical properties. Thin films of FeSe have been grown on single-crystal MgO substrates…
We calculated diffusion timescales for Ca, Mg, Fe in hydrogen atmosphere white dwarfs with temperatures between 5000 and 25000 K. With these timescales we determined accretion rates for a sample of 38 DAZ white dwarfs from the recent…
GaAs nanowires with a 100% wurtzite structure are synthesized by the vapor-liquid-solid method in a molecular beam epitaxy system, using gold as a catalyst. We use resonant Raman spectroscopy and photoluminescence to determine the position…
We study the formation of epitaxial graphene on Ru(0001) using fast x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy during the growth process. The assignment of different C 1s and Ru 3d core level components and their evolution during the growth process…
In this paper we present the results of a high temperature (300 K<T<800 K) neutron powder diffraction study of the La1.4Sr1.6Mn2O7 bilayered manganite. An unusual trend of the <Mn-Oapical>/Mn-Oequatorial parameter was found: it first…
We grow Fe film on (4 by 2)-GaAs(100) at low temperature, (~ 130 K) and study their chemical structure by photoelectron spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation. We observe the effective suppression of As segregation and remarkable…
We report the results of Raman spectroscopy high-pressure studies of alkali metal fluoroargentates (M2AgF4, where M=Na, K, Rb) associated with theoretical and x-ray diffraction studies for the K member of the series. Theoretical density…
Recent interest in very thin single phase Ga1-xMnxN dilute magnetic layers increased needs for precise, non-destructive, and relatively fast characterization methods with key issues being the macroscopic lateral Mn distribution and the…
The kinetics of intrinsic and dopant-enhanced solid phase epitaxy (SPE) is stud- ied in amorphous germanium (a-Ge) layers formed by ion implantation on <100> Ge substrates. The SPE rates were measured with a time-resolved reflectivity (TRR)…
Low temperature M\"ossbauer spectroscopic and magnetization measurements were performed on a crystalline sample of Fe-gluconate. Fe atoms were revealed to exist in two phases i.e. a major (90-94 pct.) and a minor (6-10 pct.). Based on…
It is known that solid-state reaction in high-pressure oxygen can stabilize high-oxidation phases of Y-Ba-Cu-O superconductors in powder form. We extend this superoxygenation concept of synthesis to thin films which, due to their large…
(abridged) Based on observations of the Seyfert nucleus in NGC1068 with ASCA, RXTE and BeppoSAX, we report the discovery of a flare (increase in flux by a factor of ~1.6) in the 6.7 keV Fe K line component between observations obtained 4…
We report optical second-harmonic generation (SHG) in reflection from GaSe crystals of 1 to more than 100 layers using a fundamental picosecond pulsed pump at 1.58 eV and a supercontinuum white light pulsed laser with energies ranging from…
Grain boundary self-diffusion of $^{57}$Co, $^{51}$Cr, $^{59}$Fe and $^{54}$Mn in a coarse-grained, single-phase fcc CoCrFeMnNi high entropy alloy is measured in a wide temperature range of 643 to 1273~K in both C- and B-type kinetic…
We report the interplay between In incorporation and strain relaxation kinetics in high-In-content InxGa1-xN (x = 0.3) layers grown by plasma-assisted molecular-beam epitaxy. For In mole fractions x = 0.13-0.48, best structural and…
The M\"ossbauer measurements performed on powdered single crystals of FeTe0.5Se0.5 (Tc ~ 14.7 K) reveal minor content of two impurity phases, identified as Fe3O4 and Fe7Se8, among the major tetragonal phase. From the shape of impurity…
Selective area growth of GaN nanostructures has been performed on full 2" c-sapphire substrates using Si3N4 mask patterned by nanoimprint lithography (array of 400 nm diameter circular holes). A new process has been developed to improve the…
Recent breakthroughs in bulk crystal growth of the thermodynamically stable beta phase of gallium oxide ($\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$) have led to the commercialization of large-area beta-Ga$_2$O$_3$ substrates with subsequent epitaxy on (010)…
Co2FeSi/GaAs(110) and Co2FeSi/GaAs(111)B hybrid structures were grown by molecular-beam epitaxy and characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction. The films contained inhomogeneous distributions of ordered…
Soft X-ray resonant powder diffraction has been performed at the Mn L2,3 edges of A-site ordered SmBaMn2O6. The energy and polarization dependence of the (1/2 1/2 0) reflection provide direct evidence for a (x2-z2)/(y2-z2) type orbital…