Nanoscaled alloy formation from self-assembled elemental Co nanoparticles on top of Pt films

• Luyang Han,
• Ulf Wiedwald,
• Johannes Biskupek,
• Kai Fauth,
• Ute Kaiser and
• Paul Ziemann

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 473–485, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.51

• ) substrates fixed at a distance of 30 mm from the target. To reduce particulate formation, the target was rotated as well as periodically tilted during the ablation process. To allow calibration of the deposition rate, a movable quartz crystal monitor can be placed at exactly the substrate position. More

• details on the PLD apparatus, including its UHV chamber, are given in [22][23]. By monitoring the deposition rate as a function of the laser power, an ablation threshold of 2.5 J/cm2 was determined for Pt. Standard deposition was performed at 5 J/cm2 resulting in a Pt deposition rate of 1 nm/min. Standard

Zirconium nanoparticles prepared by the reduction of zirconium oxide using the RAPET method

• Michal Eshed,
• Swati Pol,
• Aharon Gedanken and
• Mahalingam Balasubramanian

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 198–203, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.23

• production of metallic zirconium is the Kroll process [6]. In this reaction zirconium is produced by the reduction of zirconium tetrachloride with an active metal such as magnesium at 800–900 °C. Elsewhere in the literature, the preparation of metallic Zr nanoparticles by ultrafast laser ablation of a

• zirconium rod in isopropyl alcohol has been described [7]. This process produces a colloidal solution of zirconium nanoparticles. Moreover, it was shown that the size distribution of nanoparticles can be greatly reduced by employing femtosecond laser pulses for ablation. A plasma induced cathodic discharge

Room temperature synthesis of indium tin oxide nanotubes with high precision wall thickness by electroless deposition

• Mario Boehme,
• Emanuel Ionescu,
• Ganhua Fu and
• Wolfgang Ensinger

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 119–126, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.14

• development of applications in optoelectronics, sensors and biomedical sciences [4][5][6]. Miscellaneous methods for the fabrication of ITO nanostructures, such as the post calcination method [7], alkaline hydrolysis [8] or pulsed laser ablation [9] have been developed and used. For fabricating metal

Flash laser annealing for controlling size and shape of magnetic alloy nanoparticles

• Damien Alloyeau,
• Christian Ricolleau,
• Cyril Langlois,
• Yann Le Bouar and
• Annick Loiseau

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 55–59, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.7

• samples, a 3 nm-thick layer of a-Al2O3 was deposited over the NPs to protect them from air oxidation. After the synthesis, the sample was irradiated by using the same laser as the one used for the PLD experiment. A pulse frequency of 1 Hz was used and the laser energy was chosen well below the ablation