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Core level binding energies of functionalized and defective graphene

  • Toma Susi,
  • Markus Kaukonen,
  • Paula Havu,
  • Mathias P. Ljungberg,
  • Paola Ayala and
  • Esko I. Kauppinen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 121–132, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.12

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  • grown. Some authors have measured the C 1s of epitaxial monolayered graphene at a slightly higher value of 284.8 eV, but attribute this to a charge transfer from the SiC substrate [25]. A similar shift has been observed for the Dirac point in this system by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy [26
  • EOH = EH2O − EH2/2 [32], with the energy of the H2O molecule calculated to be 14.336 eV. GPAW core-hole calculation The total energy of a system before photoemission is a sum of the energy of the X-ray photon, hν, and the energy of the target system in its initial state, Ei. After the photoemission
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Published 03 Feb 2014

Quantum size effects in TiO2 thin films grown by atomic layer deposition

  • Massimo Tallarida,
  • Chittaranjan Das and
  • Dieter Schmeisser

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 77–82, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.7

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  • spectroscopy (XAS). Synchrotron radiation (SR) based photoemission spectroscopy (PES) was also used to measure Ti 2p, O 1s and Si 2p core level spectra to determine the films thickness. Further, in order to study the TiO2 thin films in the sub-nanometer range, it was decisive to perform the spectroscopic
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Published 22 Jan 2014

Many-body effects in semiconducting single-wall silicon nanotubes

  • Wei Wei and
  • Timo Jacob

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 19–25, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.2

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  • with current silicon-based technology. Their noncytotoxic nature, further, makes them promising candidates for a large variety of biotechnological applications as well. In addition, due to the quantum confinement effect, SiNTs have great potential for photoemission applications directly on silicon
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Published 06 Jan 2014

Ellipsometry and XPS comparative studies of thermal and plasma enhanced atomic layer deposited Al2O3-films

  • Jörg Haeberle,
  • Karsten Henkel,
  • Hassan Gargouri,
  • Franziska Naumann,
  • Bernd Gruska,
  • Michael Arens,
  • Massimo Tallarida and
  • Dieter Schmeißer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 732–742, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.83

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  • , oxygen interstitials may be responsible for the net negative fixed charge [1]. However, the microscopic origin of this charge is still under discussion [1]. Therefore, we plan to conduct X-ray absorption as well as resonant photoemission measurements using synchrotron radiation (SR) in near future. Now
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Published 08 Nov 2013

Mapping of plasmonic resonances in nanotriangles

  • Simon Dickreuter,
  • Julia Gleixner,
  • Andreas Kolloch,
  • Johannes Boneberg,
  • Elke Scheer and
  • Paul Leiderer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 588–602, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.66

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  • the near field of a sample, which is illuminated conventionally [8][9][10]. A related approach is to use a very fine metal or dielectrical tip as a scatterer in the vicinity of the optical near field of the sample [11][12][13]. Another method for mapping near fields is photoemission electron
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Published 30 Sep 2013

Femtosecond-resolved ablation dynamics of Si in the near field of a small dielectric particle

  • Paul Kühler,
  • Daniel Puerto,
  • Mario Mosbacher,
  • Paul Leiderer,
  • Francisco Javier Garcia de Abajo,
  • Jan Siegel and
  • Javier Solis

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 501–509, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.59

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  • time, a carrier relaxation lifetime of only 240 fs, involving ultrafast lattice heating, has recently been reported for Si using two-photon photoemission spectroscopy [19]. Even assuming the fact that ablation is in itself a thermal process and considered as slow [20], the temporal border between
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Published 04 Sep 2013

Sub-10 nm colloidal lithography for circuit-integrated spin-photo-electronic devices

  • Adrian Iovan,
  • Marco Fischer,
  • Roberto Lo Conte and
  • Vladislav Korenivski

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 884–892, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.98

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  • technique using spin-torque and spin-flip photoemission material combinations, considered promising for gigahertz oscillators and terahertz lasers. Results and Discussion Self-assembled monolayer of nanoparticles The most widely used colloidal lithography medium is polystyrene nanoparticles in aqueous
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Published 19 Dec 2012

Pure hydrogen low-temperature plasma exposure of HOPG and graphene: Graphane formation?

  • Baran Eren,
  • Dorothée Hug,
  • Laurent Marot,
  • Rémy Pawlak,
  • Marcin Kisiel,
  • Roland Steiner,
  • Dominik M. Zumbühl and
  • Ernst Meyer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 852–859, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.96

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  • graphite (HOPG) were exposed to a pure hydrogen low-temperature plasma (LTP). Characterizations include various experimental techniques such as photoelectron spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy and scanning probe microscopy. Our photoemission measurement shows that hydrogen LTP exposed HOPG has a diamond-like
  • ' peaks of the Raman spectra, atomic force microscopy (AFM) and photoemission spectroscopy of HOPG were conducted before and after exposing it to plasma. Although the pristine HOPG exhibits a relatively flat surface, the hydrogen-plasma-exposed HOPG shows two important differences: (i) The surface becomes
  • transferred to the photoemission chamber without breaking the high-vacuum conditions. The base pressure in the chamber was around 1 × 10−7 Pa during acquisition. A normal electron escape angle (i.e., polar angle = 0°) and a step size of 0.025 eV were used. The Au 4f7/2 line was measured at a binding energy of
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Published 13 Dec 2012

Towards atomic resolution in sodium titanate nanotubes using near-edge X-ray-absorption fine-structure spectromicroscopy combined with multichannel multiple-scattering calculations

  • Carla Bittencourt,
  • Peter Krüger,
  • Maureen J. Lagos,
  • Xiaoxing Ke,
  • Gustaaf Van Tendeloo,
  • Chris Ewels,
  • Polona Umek and
  • Peter Guttmann

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 789–797, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.88

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  • hydrothermal process used to synthesize the tubes, the binding energy of Ti 2p photoemission lines are shifted slightly to lower binding energy, showing that the local environment around the Ti ions in the (Na,H)TiNTs is different from that in the anatase-type TiO2 (see also Supporting Information File 1
  • , Figure S1). The absence of extra peaks or broadening of the Ti 2p photoemission lines suggest that the chemical environment of the Ti ions does not change during the hydrothermal treatment of TiO2. The Ti L-edge shows two groups of peaks arising from the spin-orbit splitting of the Ti 2p core level into
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Published 23 Nov 2012

Junction formation of Cu3BiS3 investigated by Kelvin probe force microscopy and surface photovoltage measurements

  • Fredy Mesa,
  • William Chamorro,
  • William Vallejo,
  • Robert Baier,
  • Thomas Dittrich,
  • Alexander Grimm,
  • Martha C. Lux-Steiner and
  • Sascha Sadewasser

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 277–284, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.31

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  • with Al, deposited by dc magnetron sputtering [21]. For analysis by Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) [7], surface photovoltage (SPV), and X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS), sample contact was established at the Al back contact. CdS thin films were deposited onto the Cu3BiS3 layers from a
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Published 23 Mar 2012

X-ray spectroscopy characterization of self-assembled monolayers of nitrile-substituted oligo(phenylene ethynylene)s with variable chain length

  • Hicham Hamoudi,
  • Ping Kao,
  • Alexei Nefedov,
  • David L. Allara and
  • Michael Zharnikov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 12–24, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.2

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  • shoulder, is related to a weaker screening of the photoemission hole upon its larger separation from the substrate. This behaviour is distinctly different from the behaviour of the S 2p spectra, in which the position of the thiolate-related doublet is independent of the backbone length. This is
  • photoemission signal [47], and by using the attenuation lengths reported in [48]. The spectrometer-specific coefficient was calculated on the basis of the analogous procedure performed for the reference DDT and HDT films, the thickness of which is well known [49][50]. By using this approach, the effective
  • maximum (fwhm) of the photoemission peaks of the S 2p, C 1s, and N 1s spectra. HRXPS spectra were fitted by symmetric Voigt functions and either a Shirley-type or linear background. To fit the S 2p3/2,1/2 doublets we used a pair of such peaks with the same fwhm, a branching ratio of 2 (2p3/2/2p1/2), and
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Published 05 Jan 2012

Femtosecond time-resolved photodissociation dynamics of methyl halide molecules on ultrathin gold films

  • Mihai E. Vaida,
  • Robert Tchitnga and
  • Thorsten M. Bernhardt

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 618–627, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.65

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  • surface were exposed to the full spectrum of an Hg arc lamp. The photodissociation and the desorption of the molecules from the surface was subsequently monitored by means of X-ray photoemission spectroscopy. White and coworkers reported that only 10% of the first CH3I layer adsorbed on the Pt(111
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Published 20 Sep 2011

Simple theoretical analysis of the photoemission from quantum confined effective mass superlattices of optoelectronic materials

  • Debashis De,
  • Sitangshu Bhattacharya,
  • S. M. Adhikari,
  • A. Kumar,
  • P. K. Bose and
  • K. P. Ghatak

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 339–362, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.40

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  • Electronics and Instrumentation, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Majitar, Rangpo, East Sikkim-737136, India National Institute of Technology, Agartala, Tripura-799055,India 10.3762/bjnano.2.40 Abstract The photoemission from quantum wires and dots of effective mass superlattices of optoelectronic
  • materials was investigated on the basis of newly formulated electron energy spectra, in the presence of external light waves, which controls the transport properties of ultra-small electronic devices under intense radiation. The effect of magnetic quantization on the photoemission from the aforementioned
  • superlattices, together with quantum well superlattices under magnetic quantization, has also been investigated in this regard. It appears, taking HgTe/Hg1−xCdxTe and InxGa1−xAs/InP effective mass superlattices, that the photoemission from these quantized structures is enhanced with increasing photon energy in
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Published 06 Jul 2011

Effect of large mechanical stress on the magnetic properties of embedded Fe nanoparticles

  • Srinivasa Saranu,
  • Sören Selve,
  • Ute Kaiser,
  • Luyang Han,
  • Ulf Wiedwald,
  • Paul Ziemann and
  • Ulrich Herr

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 268–275, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.31

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  • minimum energy configuration, which would also lead to a reduction of the Mr/Ms ratio. A recent study of the properties of individual Fe nanoparticles by photoemission spectroscopy [33] indicates that, depending on the size of the nanoparticles, different spin structures may result. It should be mentioned
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Published 01 Jun 2011

Preparation, properties and applications of magnetic nanoparticles

  • Ulf Wiedwald and
  • Paul Ziemann

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 21–23, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.4

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  • Photoemission Electron Microscopy with element-specific magnetic contrast (X-PEEM) [9]. Thus, at the moment one mostly has to rely on ensemble averages and, consequently, this again poses strong requirements on preparation with respect to narrow distributions whenever size dependent properties play a role. This
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