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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…
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Three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TIs) are candidate materials for various electronic and spintronic devices due to their strong spin-orbit coupling and unique surface electronic structure. Rapid, low-cost preparation of…
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The monolithic integration of sub-micron quartz structures on silicon substrates is a key issue for the future development of telecommunication to the GHz frequencies. Here we report unprecedented large-scale fabrication of ordered arrays…
Controlling thermal energy transfer at the nanoscale has become critically important in many applications and thermal properties since it often limits device performance. In this work, we study the effects on thermal conductivity arising…
Cryogenic atom probe tomography (cryo-APT) is being developed to enable nanoscale compositional analyses of frozen liquids. Yet, the availability of readily available substrates that allow for the fixation of liquids while providing…
The recent development of freestanding oxide thin films opens up exciting opportunities for the design of novel heterostructures with enhanced functionalities. Here, we explore the fabrication of membranes consisting of dense arrays of…
The inherent network of nanopores and voids in silicon dioxide (SiO2) is generally undesirable for aspects of film quality, electrical insulation and dielectric performance. However, if we view these pores as natural nano-patterns embedded…
Origami design principles are scale invariant and enable direct miniaturization of origami structures provided the sheets used for folding have equal thickness to length ratios. Recently, seminal steps have been taken to fabricate…
Antiferromagnets have recently emerged as attractive platforms for spintronics applications, offering fundamentally new functionalities compared to their ferromagnetic counterparts. While nanoscale thin film materials are key to the…
Porous polymeric covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have been under intense synthetic investigation with over 100 unique structural motifs known. In order to realize the true potential of these materials, converting the powders into thin…
Understanding the nucleation and growth of polycrystalline thin films is a long-standing goal. Polycrystalline films have many grains with different orientations that affect thin-film properties. Numerous studies have been done to determine…
Nanotubes and nanoporous materials are being made by solid state diffusion utilizing the Kirkendall effect. Recently published manuscripts have shown that the product phase grows with an oriented microstructure. Based on the requirement of…
The manipulation and sorting of chiral nanoparticles are of fundamental importance in multidisciplinary fields ranging from biochemistry to nanophotonics. In this study, we propose a novel and controllable chirality sorting mechanism for…
With recent developments in nanotechnology, self-assembled structures are providing convenient, cheaper and more precise ways of manufacturing various patterns and shapes with less complexity. Of these self-assembled structures, rolled-up…