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High resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS) are used to study the ion induced effects in Au, Ag nanostructures grown on Si and thermally grown SiO2 substrates. Au and Ag films…
Metallic nanoparticles, liquefied by fast laser irradiation, go through a rapid change of shape attempting to minimize their surface energy. The resulting nanodrops may be ejected from the substrate when the mechanisms leading to dewetting…
We report on the fabrication of hybrid molecular devices employing multilayer graphene (MLG) flakes which are patterned with a constriction using a helium ion microscope (HIM) or an oxygen plasma etch. The patterning step allows for the…
We show that transport in low-dimensional carbon structures with finite concentrations of scatterers can be modeled by utilising scaling theory and effective cross sections. Our reults are based on large scale numerical simulations of…
The fabrication of atomically precise structures with designer electronic properties is one of the emerging topics in condensed matter physics. The required level of structural control can either be reached through atomic manipulation using…
The experimentally observed metal-to-insulator transition in hydrogenated graphene is numerically confirmed for actual sized graphene samples and realistic impurity concentrations. The eigenstates of our tight-binding model with…
Label-free spectromicroscopy methods offer the capability to examine complex cellular phenomena. Electron and X-ray-based spectromicroscopy methods, though powerful, have been hard to implement with hydrated objects due to the vacuum…
The evolution of dynamic processes in graphene-family materials are of great interest for both scientific purposes and technical applications. Scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy outstand among the techniques…
CVD grown graphene used in (scanning) transmission electron microscopy ((S)TEM) studies must undergo a careful transfer of the one-atom-thick membrane from the growth surface (typically a Cu foil) to the TEM grid. During this transfer…
The radiation tolerance of gallium nitride under extreme conditions is critical for its deployment in next-generation electronic and optoelectronic devices, yet the microscopic mechanisms governing swift heavy ion induced damage at elevated…
The electron motion in atoms and molecules is at the heart of all phenomena in nature that occur outside the nucleus. Recently, ultrafast electron and X-ray imaging tools have been developed to image the ultrafast dynamics of matter in real…
We demonstrate high-resolution modification of suspended multi-layer graphene sheets by controlled exposure to the focused electron beam of a transmission electron microscope. We show that this technique can be used to realize, on…
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We establish the use of dielectrophoresis for the directed parallel assembly of individual flakes and nanoribbons of few-layer graphene into electronic devices. This is a bottom-up approach where source and drain electrodes are…
The introduction and control of ferromagnetism in graphene opens up a range of new directions for fundamental and applied studies. Several approaches have been pursued so far, such as introduction of defects, functionalization with adatoms,…
Focused electron beam induced deposition (FEBID) is a powerful technique for 3D-printing of complex nanodevices. However, for resolutions below 10 nm, it struggles to control size, morphology and composition of the structures, due to a lack…
A weakly coupled system of two crossed graphene nanoribbons exhibits direct tunneling due to the overlap of the wavefunctions of both ribbons. We apply the Bardeen transfer Hamiltonian formalism, using atomistic band structure calculations…
We report a new Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Dynamics (QM/MD) simulation loop to model the coupling between the electron and atom dynamics in solid/liquid interfacial systems. The method can describe simultaneously both the quantum…
We simulate electron transport through graphene nanoribbons of experimentally realizable size (length L up to 2 micrometer, width W approximately 40 nm) in the presence of scattering at rough edges. Our numerical approach is based on a…