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Single-layer graphene oxide film grown on α-Al2O3(0001) for use as an adsorbent

  • Shiro Entani,
  • Mitsunori Honda,
  • Masaru Takizawa and
  • Makoto Kohda

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2025, 16, 1082–1087, doi:10.3762/bjnano.16.79

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  • deposition; electronic state analysis; graphene oxide; X-ray absorption fine structure; Introduction Graphene oxide (GO) is oxidized graphene and its surface and periphery are partially modified by epoxy, hydroxy, and carboxy functional groups [1][2]. GO can be thinned to a monolayer of one carbon atom and
  • findings reported in [22]. At the same time, the significant changes arose after the oxidization of SLG in the C 1s core XPS and C K-edge near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectra. Figure 3a shows C 1s XPS spectra of SLG and SLGO. In SLG, an intense peak is observed at 283.4 eV. The C 1s
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Published 10 Jul 2025

Heat-induced transformation of nickel-coated polycrystalline diamond film studied in situ by XPS and NEXAFS

  • Olga V. Sedelnikova,
  • Yuliya V. Fedoseeva,
  • Dmitriy V. Gorodetskiy,
  • Yuri N. Palyanov,
  • Elena V. Shlyakhova,
  • Eugene A. Maksimovskiy,
  • Anna A. Makarova,
  • Lyubov G. Bulusheva and
  • Aleksandr V. Okotrub

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2025, 16, 887–898, doi:10.3762/bjnano.16.67

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  • . Keywords: graphitization; near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy; nickel coating; polycrystalline diamond film; single-crystal diamond; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; Introduction Diamond and graphite, both composed entirely of carbon atoms, exhibit vastly different properties due to
  • requires a detailed study. HRTEM has proven very useful for investigating the graphite–diamond interface [19][24]. However, it provides information about local morphology and ordering of diamond surface and graphite layers. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and near-edge X-ray absorption fine
  • thin nickel film deposited by thermal evaporation. The graphitization of diamond with and without a nickel coating as a result of high-vacuum annealing at a temperature of about 1100 °C was studied in situ using synchrotron-based X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and near-edge X-ray absorption
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Published 12 Jun 2025

Insights into the electronic and atomic structures of cerium oxide-based ultrathin films and nanostructures using high-brilliance light sources

  • Paola Luches and
  • Federico Boscherini

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2025, 16, 860–871, doi:10.3762/bjnano.16.65

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  • density of empty states of the investigated sample. In contrast, the extended energy range X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS), up to a few hundred electronvolts above the absorption edge, is sensitive to the local atomic structure around the absorbers. A polarization-dependent Ce L3-edge EXAFS study
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Published 10 Jun 2025

Upscaling the urea method synthesis of CoAl layered double hydroxides

  • Camilo Jaramillo-Hernández,
  • Víctor Oestreicher,
  • Martín Mizrahi and
  • Gonzalo Abellán

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 927–938, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.76

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  • of the structural features of the scale-up samples determined by extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) measurements, the used model, and the corresponding fits can be found in Supporting Information File 1 (Figure S9 and Table S3). Thermal decomposition in both inert (nitrogen) and
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Published 11 Sep 2023

Investigation of electron-induced cross-linking of self-assembled monolayers by scanning tunneling microscopy

  • Patrick Stohmann,
  • Sascha Koch,
  • Yang Yang,
  • Christopher David Kaiser,
  • Julian Ehrens,
  • Jürgen Schnack,
  • Niklas Biere,
  • Dario Anselmetti,
  • Armin Gölzhäuser and
  • Xianghui Zhang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 462–471, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.39

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  • separation [36][37][38][39][40][41][42]. The interactions between aromatic SAMs and electrons have been studied by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), near-edge X-ray-absorption fine-structure (NEXAFS) technique [43][44][45][46][47][48][49], infrared spectroscopy [43][50][51][52], high-resolution
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Published 25 May 2022

Sputtering onto liquids: a critical review

  • Anastasiya Sergievskaya,
  • Adrien Chauvin and
  • Stephanos Konstantinidis

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 10–53, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.2

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Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy of rubrene on clean and graphene-covered metal surfaces

  • Karl Rothe,
  • Alexander Mehler,
  • Nicolas Néel and
  • Jörg Kröger

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1157–1167, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.100

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  • near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy [15]. The observed chirality, R-C42H28 and L-C42H28, therefore results from the left or right pair of phenyl groups of a twisted C42H28 molecule being closer to the surface. On Au(111) the formation of homochiral clusters led to remarkable
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Mobility of charge carriers in self-assembled monolayers

  • Zhihua Fu,
  • Tatjana Ladnorg,
  • Hartmut Gliemann,
  • Alexander Welle,
  • Asif Bashir,
  • Michael Rohwerder,
  • Qiang Zhang,
  • Björn Schüpbach,
  • Andreas Terfort and
  • Christof Wöll

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2449–2458, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.235

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  • characterized immediately after the SAM preparation. For the Near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) measurements, gold-coated silicon wafer substrates were used. Gold films of 100 nm thickness were evaporated thermally at 453 K under high-vacuum conditions (≈10−7 mbar) with 5 nm titanium as the
  • should be oriented almost perpendicular to the substrate surface and the phenyl groups are tilted to the substrate surface. The quantitative analysis of near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) data (Supporting Information File 1, Figure S4) reveals that the anthracene units within the SAMs
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Published 11 Dec 2019

Green and scalable synthesis of nanocrystalline kuramite

  • Andrea Giaccherini,
  • Giuseppe Cucinotta,
  • Stefano Martinuzzi,
  • Enrico Berretti,
  • Werner Oberhauser,
  • Alessandro Lavacchi,
  • Giovanni Orazio Lepore,
  • Giordano Montegrossi,
  • Maurizio Romanelli,
  • Antonio De Luca,
  • Massimo Innocenti,
  • Vanni Moggi Cecchi,
  • Matteo Mannini,
  • Antonella Buccianti and
  • Francesco Di Benedetto

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2073–2083, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.202

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  • of nanocrystalline kuramite by means of a simpler, greener and scalable solvothermal synthesis. We exploited a multianalytical characterization approach (X-ray diffraction, extended X-ray absorption fine structure, field emission scanning electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy and electronic
  • ) were carried out at the LISA CRG beamline (BM-08; [57]) at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF, Grenoble, France). The software ATHENA [58] was used to average multiple spectra. Standard procedures [59] were followed to extract the structural extended X-ray absorption fine structure
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Published 29 Oct 2019

Materials nanoarchitectonics at two-dimensional liquid interfaces

  • Katsuhiko Ariga,
  • Michio Matsumoto,
  • Taizo Mori and
  • Lok Kumar Shrestha

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1559–1587, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.153

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  • water phase, yielding a monolayer sheet of the two-dimensional nickel–iron cyanide grid network. Characterizations of the extended network by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), FTIR spectroscopy, SQUID magnetometry, X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS), and grazing incidence synchrotron X-ray
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Published 30 Jul 2019

Enhancement of X-ray emission from nanocolloidal gold suspensions under double-pulse excitation

  • Wei-Hung Hsu,
  • Frances Camille P. Masim,
  • Armandas Balčytis,
  • Hsin-Hui Huang,
  • Tetsu Yonezawa,
  • Aleksandr A. Kuchmizhak,
  • Saulius Juodkazis and
  • Koji Hatanaka

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2609–2617, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.242

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  • ablation [6]. In practical applications for X-ray diffraction [7] and X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) measurements [8][9], or further nonlinear X-ray processes, a high flux of X-ray pulses is indispensable. X-ray intensity enhancements can be expected through an effective increase of the laser
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Published 01 Oct 2018

One-step chemical vapor deposition synthesis and supercapacitor performance of nitrogen-doped porous carbon–carbon nanotube hybrids

  • Egor V. Lobiak,
  • Lyubov G. Bulusheva,
  • Ekaterina O. Fedorovskaya,
  • Yury V. Shubin,
  • Pavel E. Plyusnin,
  • Pierre Lonchambon,
  • Boris V. Senkovskiy,
  • Zinfer R. Ismagilov,
  • Emmanuel Flahaut and
  • Alexander V. Okotrub

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2669–2679, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.267

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  • was studied by means of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) at the facility of the Russian-German beamline at the Berliner Elektronenspeicherring für Synchrotronstrahlung (BESSY II) station. XPS spectra were measured at an energy of
  • near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) N K-edge total-electron yield (TEY) spectra (b) of CNx materials synthesized using Fe/Mo, Ni/Mo, and Co/Mo catalysts. Raman spectra of CNx materials synthesized using Fe/Mo, Co/Mo, and Ni/Mo catalysts (a). Relationship between the ratios of Raman peak
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Published 12 Dec 2017

(Metallo)porphyrins for potential materials science applications

  • Lars Smykalla,
  • Carola Mende,
  • Michael Fronk,
  • Pablo F. Siles,
  • Michael Hietschold,
  • Georgeta Salvan,
  • Dietrich R. T. Zahn,
  • Oliver G. Schmidt,
  • Tobias Rüffer and
  • Heinrich Lang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1786–1800, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.180

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  • layers. The templating effect of the first layer can extend up to tens of nanometers in phthalocyanine layers [61]. In subsequent aging studies and in combination with near edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy we could show that the values of α apparently increase by 4–7° on both
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Published 29 Aug 2017

Effect of the fluorination technique on the surface-fluorination patterning of double-walled carbon nanotubes

  • Lyubov G. Bulusheva,
  • Yuliya V. Fedoseeva,
  • Emmanuel Flahaut,
  • Jérémy Rio,
  • Christopher P. Ewels,
  • Victor O. Koroteev,
  • Gregory Van Lier,
  • Denis V. Vyalikh and
  • Alexander V. Okotrub

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1688–1698, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.169

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  • show here that the C–F bond strength is sensitive to surroundings in the addition pattern, which can be controlled through the fluorination method. The preferable fluorine distributions on the DWCNT surface are proposed from quantum-chemical modelling of the fluorine near-edge X-ray absorption fine
  • absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy. A formation of covalent C–F bonds and a considerable reduction in the intensity of radial breathing modes from the outer shells of DWCNTs are observed for all samples. Differences in the electronic state of fluorine and the C–F vibrations for three kinds of
  • nanotubes (DWCNTs) are fluorinated using (1) fluorine F2 at 200 °C, (2) gaseous BrF3 at room temperature, and (3) CF4 radio-frequency plasma functionalization. These have been comparatively studied using transmission electron microscopy and infrared, Raman, X-ray photoelectron, and near-edge X-ray
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Published 15 Aug 2017

Structural properties and thermal stability of cobalt- and chromium-doped α-MnO2 nanorods

  • Romana Cerc Korošec,
  • Polona Umek,
  • Alexandre Gloter,
  • Jana Padežnik Gomilšek and
  • Peter Bukovec

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1032–1042, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.104

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  • with an energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer (SEM–EDS). Obtained results were correlated with XAFS and XANES (X-ray absorption fine structure; X-ray absorption near-edge structure) analysis, which helps to determine the position of dopant ions in the cryptomelane structure, as well as the oxidation
  • depositing a droplet of the dispersion on a lacey-carbon-coated copper grid. The elemental analysis of potassium, sulfur, manganese and cobalt/chromium was performed with the FE-SEM equipped with an energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer (EDS). Standard K-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) of the
  • the material under X-ray irradiation. The IFEFFIT program package [33] was used for the XANES (X-ray absorption near edge structure) and EXAFS (extended X-ray absorption fine structure) analysis. High-angle annular dark field scanning transmission electron microscopy (HAADF-STEM) images were acquired
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Published 10 May 2017

Triptycene-terminated thiolate and selenolate monolayers on Au(111)

  • Jinxuan Liu,
  • Martin Kind,
  • Björn Schüpbach,
  • Daniel Käfer,
  • Stefanie Winkler,
  • Wenhua Zhang,
  • Andreas Terfort and
  • Christof Wöll

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 892–905, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.91

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  • comprehensively studied using ultra-high vacuum infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy and thermal desorption spectroscopy. Due to packing effects, the molecules in all monolayers are substantially tilted. In the
  • spectroscopy The near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) measurements were performed at the dipole beamline HE-SGM of the synchrotron storage ring BESSY II in Berlin (Germany). Spectral acquisition was carried out at the C K-edge in the partial electron yield mode with a retarding voltage of −150 V
  • out of ethanolic solution onto Au(111) surfaces. The resulting films were investigated using a complementary set of spectroscopic methods, namely ultra-high vacuum (UHV) infrared reflection–absorption spectroscopy (IRRAS), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), near-edge X-ray absorption fine
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Published 20 Apr 2017

Cubic chemically ordered FeRh and FeCo nanomagnets prepared by mass-selected low-energy cluster-beam deposition: a comparative study

  • Veronique Dupuis,
  • Anthony Robert,
  • Arnaud Hillion,
  • Ghassan Khadra,
  • Nils Blanc,
  • Damien Le Roy,
  • Florent Tournus,
  • Clement Albin,
  • Olivier Boisron and
  • Alexandre Tamion

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1850–1860, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.177

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  • . Therefore, we have performed a series of extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) measurements on FeCo samples, at both Fe and Co K edges, to describe local order at each atomic site for different cluster sizes. We have had to develop a specific strategy, more complex than for our previous analysis
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Published 28 Nov 2016

Rigid multipodal platforms for metal surfaces

  • Michal Valášek,
  • Marcin Lindner and
  • Marcel Mayor

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 374–405, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.34

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  • were characterized by XPS, Fourier transform infrared absorption spectroscopy (FT-IRRAS), near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (NEXAFS), and a scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) analysis. As revealed by XPS and NEXAFS analysis, the monolayers derived from the thiol-terminated
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Published 08 Mar 2016

Core-level spectra and molecular deformation in adsorption: V-shaped pentacene on Al(001)

  • Anu Baby,
  • He Lin,
  • Gian Paolo Brivio,
  • Luca Floreano and
  • Guido Fratesi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2242–2251, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.230

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  • hole. This destabilization depends on the ionized carbon atom, inducing a narrowing of the XPS spectrum with respect to the molecules adsorbed hypothetically undistorted, in full agreement to experiments. When looking instead at the near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectra, individual
  • splitting of the sigma resonances measured along the two in-plane molecular axes. Keywords: aluminum; density functional theory (DFT); near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS); pentacene; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS); Introduction Pentacene has been studied extensively as it is a
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Published 27 Nov 2015

Paramagnetism of cobalt-doped ZnO nanoparticles obtained by microwave solvothermal synthesis

  • Jacek Wojnarowicz,
  • Sylwia Kusnieruk,
  • Tadeusz Chudoba,
  • Stanislaw Gierlotka,
  • Witold Lojkowski,
  • Wojciech Knoff,
  • Malgorzata I. Lukasiewicz,
  • Bartlomiej S. Witkowski,
  • Anna Wolska,
  • Marcin T. Klepka,
  • Tomasz Story and
  • Marek Godlewski

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1957–1969, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.200

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  • -ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) and with magnetometry using superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID). Irrespective of the Co content, nanoparticles in their initial state present a similar
  • heating cycle in the Magnum II reactor. After cooling, the sample volume was filled to 50 mL with deionized water. EXAFS investigations of Zn1−xCoxO The local atomic structure of Co in Zn1−xCoxO NPs with concentrations of 1%, 5%, 10% and 15% Co were determined from the extended X-ray absorption fine
  • annealed at 800 °C in nitrogen (99.999%) and in synthetic air. The material nanostructure was investigated by means of the following techniques: X-ray diffraction (XRD), helium pycnometry density, specific surface area (SSA), inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES), extended X
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Possibilities and limitations of advanced transmission electron microscopy for carbon-based nanomaterials

  • Xiaoxing Ke,
  • Carla Bittencourt and
  • Gustaaf Van Tendeloo

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1541–1557, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.158

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  • is encompassed within the valence-loss region of an EELS spectrum. In combination with theoretical calculations and simulations detailed local information can be obtained. EELS is close to near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) analysis used to probe electronic states [88]. One major
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Published 16 Jul 2015

Overview of nanoscale NEXAFS performed with soft X-ray microscopes

  • Peter Guttmann and
  • Carla Bittencourt

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 595–604, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.61

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  • be analysed. Therefore, analytical tools like near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy has to be applied on single nanostructures. Scanning transmission X-ray microscopes (STXM) as well as full-field transmission X-ray microscopes (TXM) allow the required spatial resolution to
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Published 27 Feb 2015

Electron-beam induced deposition and autocatalytic decomposition of Co(CO)3NO

  • Florian Vollnhals,
  • Martin Drost,
  • Fan Tu,
  • Esther Carrasco,
  • Andreas Späth,
  • Rainer H. Fink,
  • Hans-Peter Steinrück and
  • Hubertus Marbach

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1175–1185, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.129

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  • nitrosyl, Co(CO)3NO. Different deposits are prepared on silicon nitride membranes and silicon wafers under ultrahigh vacuum conditions, and are studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM), including near edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS
  • interferometric control through the focal spot, while the transmitted photon intensity is recorded by using a photo multiplier tube. Near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectra were recorded by consecutive scanning of the investigated area with varying photon energy. The lateral resolution in
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Published 30 Jul 2014

Organic and inorganic–organic thin film structures by molecular layer deposition: A review

  • Pia Sundberg and
  • Maarit Karppinen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1104–1136, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.123

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  • -diamine and terephthaloyl dichloride to grow semi-aromatic polyamide thin films. The highest achieved growth rate of this type of polyamide on Si(100) substrates was only 2 Å per cycle at 85 °C. The near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy measurements showed that the oligomer units of the
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Published 22 Jul 2014

Characterization of electroforming-free titanium dioxide memristors

  • John Paul Strachan,
  • J. Joshua Yang,
  • L. A. Montoro,
  • C. A. Ospina,
  • A. J. Ramirez,
  • A. L. D. Kilcoyne,
  • Gilberto Medeiros-Ribeiro and
  • R. Stanley Williams

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 467–473, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.55

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  • technique has been used for previous studies of the single layer TiO2 memristor devices and can identify the presence of spatially-localized channels of oxygen vacancy rich Ti–O phases through analysis of the near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) [26]. After electrical operation of the
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