An iridescent film of porous anodic aluminum oxide with alternatingly electrodeposited Cu and SiO₂ nanoparticles

• Menglei Chang,
• Huawen Hu,
• Haiyan Quan,
• Hongyang Wei,
• Zhangyi Xiong,
• Jiacong Lu,
• Pin Luo,
• Yaoheng Liang,
• Jianzhen Ou and
• Dongchu Chen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 735–745, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.73

• simultaneous way, into a stable structure possessing a regular geometric appearance. In contrast, electrodeposition involves the nucleation at an electrode surface under the action of an electric field [25]. For example, a high-purity aluminum foil was directly used as a template, on which anodic aluminum

• stainless steel tube and a carbon fiber as the anode and cathode under the action of a circular electric field, respectively, resulting in a cylindrical fibrous structure. The control over the electrodeposition voltage and time allowed for the fabrication of fibers with different thicknesses, and the

Review of time-resolved non-contact electrostatic force microscopy techniques with applications to ionic transport measurements

• Aaron Mascaro,
• Yoichi Miyahara,
• Tyler Enright,
• Omur E. Dagdeviren and
• Peter Grütter

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 617–633, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.62

• techniques have been developed aimed at measuring local electronic and ionic properties on a wide range of samples. By carefully controlling the electric field between the tip and sample many properties can be measured with high spatial resolution including static properties such as local contact potential

• therefore be modulated by the electric field between the tip and sample, which may vary with time. The first use of an AFM to measure the time evolution of sample charge carriers was reported by Schönenberger and Alvarado [25]. They first applied a voltage pulse between the tip and sample to inject charge

• conducting materials as well. To probe ionic transport a step potential is applied between the AFM tip and a conducting back electrode, creating an electric field across the tip–sample gap and through the sample, illustrated in Figure 1b. The mobile ions inside the sample move in response to this field over

Coexisting spin and Rabi oscillations at intermediate time regimes in electron transport through a photon cavity

• Vidar Gudmundsson,
• Hallmann Gestsson,
• Nzar Rauf Abdullah,
• Chi-Shung Tang,
• Andrei Manolescu and
• Valeriu Moldoveanu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 606–616, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.61

• the center of the z = 0 plane. For the Coulomb gauge used here the polarization of the electric field of the cavity photons parallel to the transport in the x-direction (with the unit vector ex) is realized in the TE011 mode, or perpendicular to the transport (defined by the unit vector ey) in the

Integration of LaMnO_3+δ films on platinized silicon substrates for resistive switching applications by PI-MOCVD

• Raquel Rodriguez-Lamas,
• Dolors Pla,
• Odette Chaix-Pluchery,
• Benjamin Meunier,
• Fabrice Wilhelm,
• Andrei Rogalev,
• Laetitia Rapenne,
• Xavier Mescot,
• Quentin Rafhay,
• Hervé Roussel,
• Michel Boudard,
• Carmen Jiménez and
• Mónica Burriel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 389–398, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.38

• –insulator/semiconductor–metal, MIM), namely memristors, when a non-volatile change of resistance is produced under the effect of an applied current or electric field [1]. As these resistance changes are reversible, RS is suitable for redox-based resistive switching random access memory (Re-RAM) applications

Geometrical optimisation of core–shell nanowire arrays for enhanced absorption in thin crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells

• Robin Vismara,
• Olindo Isabella,
• Andrea Ingenito,
• Fai Tong Si and
• Miro Zeman

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 322–331, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.31

• absorption profile of the NW model, on the other hand, presents a significantly larger number of peaks. Still the typical shape of F-P interference can be observed, only lifted to higher absorption values due to the diffraction promoted by the presence of nanowires. The electric field (E) distribution inside

• two effects combine to increase the total intensity of the electric field within the absorber layer. This in turn results in a value of absorption, for the NW model, significantly enhanced with respect to the FLAT sample, as shown in (II) in Figure 4. Finally, at λ(III) = 983 nm a peak in can be seen

• considered, while (b) focuses on the spectrum between 800 and 1000 nm. Black vertical lines in (b) indicate the position of interference resonances, calculated with Equation 2. The corresponding electric field distributions are presented in Figure 5. Distribution of the electric field inside the absorber

Electromagnetic analysis of the lasing thresholds of hybrid plasmon modes of a silver tube nanolaser with active core and active shell

• Denys M. Natarov,
• Trevor M. Benson and
• Alexander I. Nosich

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 294–304, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.28

• has the radius a. This configuration of the active region is selected as the most favorable for achieving lower thresholds of the LSP modes. Such anticipation is based on the finding of [17] (see Equation 36 there): low threshold needs good overlap of the active region with the electric field of mode

• expressed as and Vmin is the volume of open resonator, that is the inner domain of the minimum circle containing all of the resonator elements [17]. If the mode electric field is normalized by its maximum magnitude value, then WN coincides with the effective mode volume – this quantity is an important

• also a sum of two partial values, so it is convenient to introduce the overlap coefficients between each part of the active region and the mode electric field, Then the “gain = loss” Equation 6 takes the following form: Equation 13 is, of course, simply a re-written optical theorem and hence it is

Threshold voltage decrease in a thermotropic nematic liquid crystal doped with graphene oxide flakes

• Mateusz Mrukiewicz,
• Krystian Kowiorski,
• Paweł Perkowski,
• Rafał Mazur and
• Małgorzata Djas

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 71–78, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.7

• presence of the electric field was discussed. Keywords: graphene oxide; liquid crystal; nematic phase; switching; threshold voltage; Introduction Liquid crystals (LCs) are classified as a type of soft matter which are characterized by anisotropic molecules and a liquid-like fluidity behavior. Of all LC

• electric field can change the director orientation thereby causing a change in the optical properties. In the absence of an electric field, the orientation of n is determined by anchoring conditions. The field-induced reorientation of the LC director is known as the Frédericksz effect [3]. In the

• Frédericksz effect, the deformation of a homogeneous layer of a NLC is caused by the electric field E, which is initially perpendicular to the director. Such structural transition appears at a certain magnitude called the threshold voltage, Uth. When the applied voltage, U, is lower than the threshold U < Uth

Surface plasmon resonance enhancement of photoluminescence intensity and bioimaging application of gold nanorod@CdSe/ZnS quantum dots

• Siyi Hu,
• Yu Ren,
• Yue Wang,
• Jinhua Li,
• Junle Qu,
• Liwei Liu,
• Hanbin Ma and
• Yuguo Tang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 22–31, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.3

• function of wavelength and (b) wavelength and photoluminescence of GNRs under polarized light. The inset images inserted are the FDTD simulation of the electric field intensity distribution (indicated by the color bar) of the gold nanorods. (a) TEM image of a GNR; (b) TEM image of GNR@CdSe/ZnS; (c) energy

Electrostatic force microscopy for the accurate characterization of interphases in nanocomposites

• Diana El Khoury,
• Richard Arinero,
• Jean-Charles Laurentie,
• Mikhaël Bechelany,
• Michel Ramonda and
• Jérôme Castellon

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2999–3012, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.279

• that scatters the electric field, and the long range nature of the electrostatic forces that complicate the identification of the actual probed region. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to determine whether EFM can identify an interface region, and most importantly, to identify the

• simulations matched the experimental data (see Table 2). The relatively small difference between PS + 50 nm Al2O3 + 50 nm SiO2 and PS + 100 nm SiO2 signals can be explained by the thickness of the upper layer (50 nm) that limits the electric field penetration, and consequently, the effect of the subsurface

• profiles, b) average EFM signal profiles (lower panel) and the corresponding EFM images (upper panels). Typical simulation of the electric field map obtained with a 2D axisymmetric model of the EFM tip and the PS + Al2O3 sample as a substrate. Experimental data and simulations for a typical reference

Charged particle single nanometre manufacturing

• Philip D. Prewett,
• Cornelis W. Hagen,
• Claudia Lenk,
• Steve Lenk,
• Marcus Kaestner,
• Tzvetan Ivanov,
• Ahmad Ahmad,
• Ivo W. Rangelow,
• Xiaoqing Shi,
• Stuart A. Boden,
• Alex P. G. Robinson,
• Dongxu Yang,
• Sangeetha Hari,
• Marijke Scotuzzi and
• Ejaz Huq

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2855–2882, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.266

• of the much lighter and less damaging 4He+ ion. ALIS is a highly developed version of the gas field ion source (GFIS), the operation of which is shown schematically in Figure 1 [23][24]. The non-uniform high electric field at the atomically sharp tip of a tungsten needle maintained at cryogenic

• applied between sample and tip. Due to the tip shape the electric field is enhanced up to 25-times near the tip [127] and electrons are consequently emitted [128][129][130]. In Figure 14a, the electric field between tip and sample is shown for a representative tip shape and tip–sample distance. The

• physical process of emission is quantum mechanical tunneling of the electrons through the potential barrier, which is tilted due to the electric field (see Figure 14b for a schematic description of the tunneling process). The theory of electron field emission from metals was developed by Ralph H. Fowler

Controlling surface morphology and sensitivity of granular and porous silver films for surface-enhanced Raman scattering, SERS

• Sherif Okeil and
• Jörg J. Schneider

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2813–2831, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.263

• radio frequency field using a frequency of 13.56 MHz. The setup consists simply of two parallel plates about 10 cm apart where the substrate is placed on the bottom electrode. These electrodes are connected to radio frequency generator generating the alternating electric field at 13.56 MHz frequency

• (Scheme S1, Supporting Information File 1). At this frequency, electrons quickly respond to any minor changes in the electric field thus gaining a significant amount of energy. When these highly energetic electrons collide with the feed gas atoms or molecules this results into a series of successive

Contactless photomagnetoelectric investigations of 2D semiconductors

• Marian Nowak,
• Marcin Jesionek,
• Barbara Solecka,
• Piotr Szperlich,
• Piotr Duka and
• Anna Starczewska

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2741–2749, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.256

• concentration (μe = 1256(25) cm2V−1s−1 and ne = 4.65(6)·1016 m−2 determined using Van der Pauw method). It should be underlined that one of the most important properties of graphene [33][34][35] and other 2D materials [2][36][37][38][39][40][41] is the strong electric field effect which leads to

• weak magnetic field), one can find . Therefore, the left axis in Figure 6c presents the square root of the measured PME response (shown in Figure 6b) scaled as the μτ. The data are presented as a function of intensity of electric field (bottom axis) and concentration of electrostatically induced

• observed PME response in non-suspended graphene. It agrees with theoretical predictions [43] based on the influence of charged impurities scatterers on transport of carriers in graphene. Figure 6d shows the difference between electron and hole mobilities as a function of electric field (bottom axis) and

Silencing the second harmonic generation from plasmonic nanodimers: A comprehensive discussion

• Jérémy Butet,
• Gabriel D. Bernasconi and
• Olivier J. F. Martin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2674–2683, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.250

• nanostructures corresponds to the limited far-field second harmonic radiation despite the huge fundamental electric field enhancement in the interstice between two plasmonic nanoparticles forming a nanodimer. In this article, we report a comprehensive investigation of this effect using a surface integral

• concentrate light into subwavelength regions [1][2]. The collective oscillations of these electrons in a given plasmonic nanostructure are called localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs) [3][4][5]. The high electric field enhancement associated with the optical excitation of such a resonance has been

• –Glisson (RWG) basis functions. The expansion coefficients are found by applying the method of moments with Galerkin’s testing [23][24]. A Poggio–Miller–Chang–Harrington–Wu–Tsai formulation is used to ensure accurate solutions even at resonant conditions [23][24]. The SH electric field is then deduced from

Two-dimensional semiconductors pave the way towards dopant-based quantum computing

• José Carlos Abadillo-Uriel,
• Belita Koiller and
• María José Calderón

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2668–2673, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.249

• materials may vary and eventually be tuned by an electric field, for instance, in the case of buckled silicene and germanene [31]. There is much less information on the dielectric screening of 2D materials, which also depends on the substrate and environment. It has been calculated only for a few cases (for

Silicene, germanene and other group IV 2D materials

• Patrick Vogt

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2665–2667, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.248

• 2D layer properties, for example, via chemical functionalization or external fields. This could be efficiently utilized in a transistor, where the electronic band gap can then be tuned by the electric field applied perpendicular to the lattice plane. As an example, ab initio calculations have shown

• that the two sub-lattices in silicene, resulting from the buckling, are moved further apart by an orthogonal electric field, which leads to a band gap opening [7][8]. Another important advantage of these new materials is the significant spin–orbit interaction, which also increases with increasing

Nanoantenna structures for the detection of phonons in nanocrystals

• Alexander G. Milekhin,
• Sergei A. Kuznetsov,
• Ilya A. Milekhin,
• Larisa L. Sveshnikova,
• Tatyana A. Duda,
• Ekaterina E. Rodyakina,
• Alexander V. Latyshev,
• Volodymyr M. Dzhagan and
• Dietrich R. T. Zahn

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2646–2656, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.246

• increase of the value volumetrically averaged over the antenna height within the array unit cell. When increasing LH, such augmentation is to be manifested up to some limit below which the electric field becomes too small and incapable of compensating the unit cell size decrease. This effect is

• illustrated in Figure 3 where the optimized nanoantenna length L and the averaged electric field intensity are plotted as a function of the cross-arm length LH for the example of H-shaped nanoantennas with the LSPR energy fixed at 190 cm−1. Optimization was carried out in the ANSYS EM Suite software

• ; details of the electric field averaging procedure are described in [23]. When choosing the transverse spacing between nanoantennas Gy we exploited the condition of superposing the LSPR wavelength λLSPR and the 1st diffraction harmonics excited in a Si wafer to maximize the E-field enhancement [23]: λLSPR

Nanostructured liquid crystal systems and applications

• Alexei R. Khokhlov and
• Alexander V. Emelyanenko

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2644–2645, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.245

• years, no practical interest in liquid crystals was found. Much later, in 1927, the effect of the orientation of liquid crystals by an electric field was discovered by Russian physicist Vsevolod Fréedericksz [4][5][6]. Today, the operation of the liquid crystal display (LCD) is based on this effect

Impact of the anodization time on the photocatalytic activity of TiO₂ nanotubes

• Jesús A. Díaz-Real,
• Geyla C. Dubed-Bandomo,
• Juan Galindo-de-la-Rosa,
• Luis G. Arriaga,
• Janet Ledesma-García and
• Nicolas Alonso-Vante

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2628–2643, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.244

• importantly, it has been recognized that several parameters of the anodization, such as electric field strength, water content in the electrolyte, concentration of fluorine ions and pH value, have a direct influence on the electronic properties of the TNTs [20]. Nevertheless, the modification procedures for

• observe the onset potential, Eonset. The latter is a specific energy condition where the photogenerated electrons are effectively separated due to the electric field at the semiconductor/electrolyte interface and where jph becomes observable. The importance of Eonset in these experiments relies on the

Exploring the photoleakage current and photoinduced negative bias instability in amorphous InGaZnO thin-film transistors with various active layer thicknesses

• Dapeng Wang and
• Mamoru Furuta

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2573–2580, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.239

• . Simultaneously, the electron–hole pairs are photoexcited from EV, which leads to the neutralization between the ionized VO+/VO2+ and the generated electrons, contributing to free holes in EV [18]. During the NBIS duration with VGS = −30 V, a vertical electric field is exerted along the growth direction of the

• trapped holes at the front-channel interface. After the forward measurement with VGS = −10–20 V, the ionized VO+/VO2+ would be gradually neutralized by capturing electrons, and the trapped holes at the front-channel interface are completely de-trapped due to the vertical electric field induced by the

• electrons are photoexcited to EC, they are partly accumulated and trapped at the back-channel interface due to the weaker vertical electric field. As a result, the excited hole in EV and the ionized VO+/VO2+ near EF at VGS of the turn-on voltage would be neutralized by the free electrons. Therefore, after

Directional light beams by design from electrically driven elliptical slit antennas

• Shuiyan Cao,
• Eric Le Moal,
• Quanbo Jiang,
• Aurélien Drezet,
• Serge Huant,
• Jean-Paul Hugonin,
• Gérald Dujardin and
• Elizabeth Boer-Duchemin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2361–2371, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.221

• modulus of the total electric field and its x- and y-components in the slit, i.e., in the (xy) plane, using the method described in [47][48]. Figure 9 shows the results for structures 1 (circular slit) and 7 (elliptical slit with a/b = 2, see Table 1). When SPPs are isotropically excited in the center of

• a planar surface, the phase of the electric field of an incident light beam in (a,c) orthogonal or (b,d) oblique incidence is spatially (a,c) independent or (b,d) dependent, respectively. If this spatial phase distribution is reproduced on a planar surface, an extended planar light source can emit a

• in the slit. (a–f) Spatial distribution of the square modulus of the total electric field |E|2 = |Ex|2 + |Ey|2 + |Ez|2 and of its components |Ex|2 and |Ey|2 along the x- and y-axes, as calculated inside the slit of structures 1 (circular) and 7 (elliptical, see Table 1). The excitation is modeled as

Pinning of a ferroelectric Bloch wall at a paraelectric layer

• Vilgelmina Stepkova and
• Jiří Hlinka

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2356–2360, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.220

• paraelectric layer with a thickness comparable to the thickness of the domain wall itself can act as an efficient pinning layer. At the same time, such a layer facilitates the possibility to switch domain wall helicity by an external electric field or even to completely change the characteristic structure of a

• layer could be easily switched with a 0.5 kV/mm electric field, as is apparent from the quasistatic hysteresis loop shown in Figure 8 (see below). In fact, the thickness of the SrTiO3 layer can be tuned in a way that the wall passing through there is effectively in the state just below the phase

• quasistatically, from a sequence of configurations relaxed under fixed bias electric fields, similarly as in [12]. The initial state had two domain walls with opposite Pt values, as in Figure 3, then the electric field was gradually increased, decreased and increased again to form a whole polarization cycle. In

Metal–dielectric hybrid nanoantennas for efficient frequency conversion at the anapole mode

• Valerio F. Gili,
• Lavinia Ghirardini,
• Davide Rocco,
• Giuseppe Marino,
• Ivan Favero,
• Iännis Roland,
• Giovanni Pellegrini,
• Lamberto Duò,
• Marco Finazzi,
• Luca Carletti,
• Andrea Locatelli,
• Aristide Lemaître,
• Dragomir Neshev,
• Costantino De Angelis,
• Giuseppe Leo and
• Michele Celebrano

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2306–2314, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.215

• dielectric materials the electric field penetrates deeply into the volume [16], the exploitation of large bulk nonlinearities also enables enhanced nonlinear light–matter interactions at the nanoscale. Third-harmonic generation (THG) was the first nonlinear effect observed in nanoscale semiconductors with

• . At the fundamental wavelength the plasmonic ring produces a strong electric field at its center. This allows for an improved coupling to the toroidal dipole moment inside the disk, therefore providing a more efficient excitation of the anapole mode (i.e., ED and TD moments of equal magnitude and in

• the electric field, E0, polarized along the y-axis with respect to the reference system of Figure 2a. For the dispersion of the refractive index of Al0.18Ga0.82As we used the analytical model proposed in [39]. In Figure 2b,c both the electric and magnetic field enhancements are depicted, respectively

Optimization of the optical coupling in nanowire-based integrated photonic platforms by FDTD simulation

• Nan Guan,
• Andrey Babichev,
• Martin Foldyna,
• Dmitry Denisov,
• François H. Julien and
• Maria Tchernycheva

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2248–2254, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.209

• with the same vertical profile and a various number of lobes in the lateral direction are present). The simulated electric field distributions in the horizontal and vertical cross-sections in the middle of the waveguide are shown in Figure 2. The LED-waveguide coupling yield, which is defined as the

• coupling, which increases from 55% to 77.1%. The electric field distribution in the vertical cross-section in the middle of the waveguide is shown in Figure 2e. We note that this change of the architecture is feasible for the platform fabrication: the spin-on-glass supporting layer can be removed by dry

• -component (i.e., pointing along the waveguide from the LED to the detector) of the Poynting vector was analyzed. The distribution of the Poynting vector in the different horizontal layers inside the system and the electric field distribution in the vertical cross-sectional layer in the middle of the

Lead-free hybrid perovskites for photovoltaics

• Oleksandr Stroyuk

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2209–2235, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.207

Dumbbell gold nanoparticle dimer antennas with advanced optical properties

• Janning F. Herrmann and
• Christiane Höppener

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2188–2197, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.205

• electric field enhancement is observed for red-shifted excitation wavelengths. Fabrication strategies of optical antennas, and in particular gap antennas with an optical response in the visible to NIR regime, are versatile and are often correlated with the final application schemes. Although top-down