Towards a quantitative theory for transmission X-ray microscopy

• James G. McNally,
• Christoph Pratsch,
• Stephan Werner,
• Stefan Rehbein,
• Andrew Gibbs,
• Jihao Wang,
• Thomas Lunkenbein,
• Peter Guttmann and
• Gerd Schneider

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2025, 16, 1113–1128, doi:10.3762/bjnano.16.82

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

• adsorption, the CsCl solution was removed with a water rinse for 5 min. Characterization The electronic structure of Cs-adsorbed SLGO was investigated by NEXAFS. The C and O K-edge NEXAFS measurements were carried out at the BL-8 station in the Ritsumeikan Synchrotron Radiation Center. The partial electron

Time-resolved probing of laser-induced nanostructuring processes in liquids

• Maximilian Spellauge,
• David Redka,
• Mianzhen Mo,
• Changyong Song,
• Heinz Paul Huber and
• Anton Plech

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2025, 16, 968–1002, doi:10.3762/bjnano.16.74

• -Essen, 45141 Essen, Germany New Technologies Research Center, University of West Bohemia, Plzen CZ-30100, Czech Republic SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, 94025, CA, USA Department of Physics, POSTECH, Pohang 37673, Korea Institute for Photon Science and Synchrotron Radiation, Karlsruhe

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

• -coated PCD films were conducted at the experimental station of the Russian–German Beamline using the BESSY II synchrotron radiation facility. To achieve variable depth sensitivity, XPS spectra were collected at two excitation photon energies, and NEXAFS spectra were recorded using two registration modes

• angle of incidence of the synchrotron radiation was a) 65° for SCD and b) 50 and 90° for Ni-SCD. The inset in panel (b) shows Raman spectra of annealed SCD and Ni-SCD samples. Supporting Information Supporting Information File 48: Additional figures and tables. Funding This research is supported by

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

• applications, examining the application of high-brilliance light sources on model systems such as supported thin films and epitaxial nanostructures. We review selected studies exploiting the high energy resolution and sensitivity of synchrotron radiation-based X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and X-ray

• sensitivity, atomic selectivity, spatial and energy resolution, synchrotron radiation-based techniques, which utilize high-brilliance photon beams, have enabled refined characterization of the electronic, structural, and morphological properties of these materials, as well as the modifications they undergo

• refined understanding of cerium oxide-based materials, particularly when examined in the form of well-controlled thin films and nanostructures prepared by physical synthesis methods. Review Studies by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and related techniques Synchrotron radiation-based X-ray photoelectron

Synchrotron X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy study of sodium adsorption on vertically arranged MoS₂ layers coated with pyrolytic carbon

• Alexander V. Okotrub,
• Anastasiya D. Fedorenko,
• Anna A. Makarova,
• Veronica S. Sulyaeva,
• Yuliya V. Fedoseeva and
• Lyubov G. Bulusheva

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2025, 16, 847–859, doi:10.3762/bjnano.16.64

• . In this work, to reveal the effect of carbon coating on the interaction of sodium with the MoS2 layers located vertically relative to the substrate, model experiments were carried out using synchrotron-radiation-induced X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Sodium vapor obtained by heating a sodium

• resulting hybrid and individual films of MoS2 and PyC were placed on the same sample holder to study the interaction with sodium vapor in the ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) chamber of the experimental station of the Russian–German beamline at the BESSY-II synchrotron radiation facility. Such model experiments make

• measuring leakage current in total electron yield mode. The experimental data were normalized to the ring current and a photon flux measured using a clean gold crystal. The XPS spectra were measured at synchrotron radiation of 830 and 470 eV. After the XPS and NEXAFS measurements were completed, the samples

Retrieval of B1 phase from high-pressure B2 phase for CdO nanoparticles by electronic excitations in Cd_xZn_1−xO composite thin films

• Arkaprava Das,
• Marcin Zając and
• Carla Bittencourt

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2025, 16, 551–560, doi:10.3762/bjnano.16.43

• Arkaprava Das Marcin Zajac Carla Bittencourt Chimie des Interaction Plasma surface, Research Institute for Materials Science and Engineering, Université of Mons, 7000 Mons, Belgium SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre, Jagiellonian University, 30-392 Krakow, Poland 10.3762/bjnano.16.43

• developed under the provision of the Polish Ministry and Higher Education project “Support for research and development with the use of research infrastructure of the National Synchrotron Radiation Centre SOLARIS" under contract No. 1/SOL/2021/2. We acknowledge the SOLARIS Centre for providing access to the

Properties of tin oxide films grown by atomic layer deposition from tin tetraiodide and ozone

• Kristjan Kalam,
• Peeter Ritslaid,
• Tanel Käämbre,
• Aile Tamm and
• Kaupo Kukli

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 1085–1092, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.89

• File 10: Supplementary material. Funding The study was partially supported by the European Regional Development Fund projects Nos. TT20 and 2014-2020.4.01.20-0278 „Developing new research services and research infrastructures at MAX IV synchrotron radiation source“ (MAX-TEENUS), “Emerging orders in

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

• -M) and the Generalitat Valenciana (CIDEGENT/2018/001, and Agència Valenciana de la Innovació, AVI, through the project: INNVA1/2021/18, LDHPACK). We thank the CELLS-ALBA (Spain) for making all the facilities available for the synchrotron radiation experiment number 2022097096. M.M. is a research

Evaluation of electrosynthesized reduced graphene oxide–Ni/Fe/Co-based (oxy)hydroxide catalysts towards the oxygen evolution reaction

• Karolina Cysewska,
• Marcin Łapiński,
• Marcin Zając,
• Jakub Karczewski,
• Piotr Jasiński and
• Sebastian Molin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 420–433, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.34

• Advanced Materials Center, Institute of Nanotechnology and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Gdańsk University of Technology, ul. Narutowicza 11/12, 80–233 Gdańsk, Poland National Synchrotron Radiation Centre SOLARIS, Jagiellonian University, ul. Czerwone Maki 98, 30-392

• ). Characterizations The morphology and structure of the catalysts were characterized using a scanning electron microscope (FEI QUANTA FEG 250) with an energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) sensor. X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) was performed at the 04BM beamline at the National Synchrotron Radiation Centre SOLARIS [41

• research infrastructure of the National Synchrotron Radiation Centre SOLARIS” under contract nr 1/SOL/2021/2. We acknowledge SOLARIS Centre for the access to the Beamline [XAS], where the measurements were performed. K. Cysewska acknowledges the Polish Ministry of Education and Science for the stipend of

Theoretical investigations of oxygen vacancy effects in nickel-doped zirconia from ab initio XANES spectroscopy at the oxygen K-edge

• Dick Hartmann Douma,
• Lodvert Tchibota Poaty,
• Alessio Lamperti,
• Stéphane Kenmoe,
• Abdulrafiu Tunde Raji,
• Alberto Debernardi and
• Bernard M’Passi-Mabiala

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 975–985, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.85

• photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) [26], XANES spectra [27], and synchrotron radiation measurements [4], where it was suggested that for every two dopant atoms of Fe in zirconia, one single O vacancy is created. It is, thus, expected that in similarity to the effect of Fe doping in zirconia, substitutional Ni in

Thermal oxidation process on Si(113)-(3 × 2) investigated using high-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy

• Hiroya Tanaka,
• Shinya Ohno,
• Kazushi Miki and
• Masatoshi Tanaka

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 172–181, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.12

• the Si 2p and O 1s core levels in detail during thermal oxidation using high-resolution X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy with synchrotron radiation [7][8][9]. Using a state-of-the-art wet oxidation procedure, we also reduced the interface trap density (Dit) at the SiO2/Si interface on the Si(113

Influence of magnetic domain walls on all-optical magnetic toggle switching in a ferrimagnetic GdFe film

• Rahil Hosseinifar,
• Evangelos Golias,
• Ivar Kumberg,
• Quentin Guillet,
• Karl Frischmuth,
• Sangeeta Thakur,
• Mario Fix,
• Manfred Albrecht,
• Florian Kronast and
• Wolfgang Kuch

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 74–81, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.5

• Supporting information features temperature-dependent magnetization loops of the sample and the determination of the magnetic compensation temperature. Supporting Information File 14: Magnetic characterization. Acknowledgements We thank the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for the allocation of synchrotron

• radiation beamtime. Funding This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft via the CRC/TRR 227 “Ultrafast Spin Dynamics”, project A07.

Impact of fluorination on interface energetics and growth of pentacene on Ag(111)

• Qi Wang,
• Meng-Ting Chen,
• Antoni Franco-Cañellas,
• Bin Shen,
• Thomas Geiger,
• Holger F. Bettinger,
• Frank Schreiber,
• Ingo Salzmann,
• Alexander Gerlach and
• Steffen Duhm

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1361–1370, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.120

• Suzhou Nano Science & Technology (NANO-CIC) and the Soochow University-Western University Joint Center for Synchrotron Radiation Research. Q. W. gratefully acknowledges financial support from the China Scholarship Council (CSC No. 201706920041).

Templating effect of single-layer graphene supported by an insulating substrate on the molecular orientation of lead phthalocyanine

• K. Priya Madhuri,
• Abhay A. Sagade,
• Pralay K. Santra and
• Neena S. John

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 814–820, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.66

• molecules such as FePc, CoPc, CuPc and ZnPc, which form layers in a face-on configuration [16][17][18][19]. A combination of brilliant synchrotron radiation and a highly sensitive 2D X-ray detector are employed to establish the structure and orientation of organic molecules such as MPcs, pentacene and P3HT

Semitransparent Sb₂S₃ thin film solar cells by ultrasonic spray pyrolysis for use in solar windows

• Jako S. Eensalu,
• Atanas Katerski,
• Erki Kärber,
• Lothar Weinhardt,
• Monika Blum,
• Clemens Heske,
• Wanli Yang,
• Ilona Oja Acik and
• Malle Krunks

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2396–2409, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.230

• of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4003, USA Institute for Photon Science and Synchrotron Radiation (IPS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron

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

• Florence, Via Lastruccia 3-13, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy ICCOM-CNR, Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy IOM-CNR, c/o European Synchrotron Radiation Facility 71, avenue des Martyrs, 38043 Grenoble Cedex 9, France IGG-CNR, Via La Pira 4, 50121 Firenze, Italy, Museo di Storia

• ) 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

Gas sensing properties of individual SnO₂ nanowires and SnO₂ sol–gel nanocomposites

• Alexey V. Shaposhnik,
• Dmitry A. Shaposhnik,
• Sergey Yu. Turishchev,
• Olga A. Chuvenkova,
• Stanislav V. Ryabtsev,
• Alexey A. Vasiliev,
• Xavier Vilanova,
• Francisco Hernandez-Ramirez and
• Joan R. Morante

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1380–1390, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.136

• near edge structure (XANES), both employing the high-brilliance synchrotron radiation of the BESSY II storage ring at the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin on the joint Russian–German beamline. The efficiency of XPS and XANES has previously been demonstrated in investigations of local atomic surroundings

• as a reference. The application of synchrotron radiation allowed the variation of X-ray quantum energies for the excitation of XANES spectra. These spectra represent local partial densities of free electronic states in the conduction band of the investigated materials [35][36][37][38][39][40][41

• about chemical binding energy contributions in surface layers with complex phase compositions [43][44][45][46][47]. In the present study, we investigated core 1s states of oxygen atoms and core 3d states of tin atoms with high resolution provided by monochromatized synchrotron radiation. The spin–orbit

Nanoscale optical and structural characterisation of silk

• Meguya Ryu,
• Reo Honda,
• Adrian Cernescu,
• Arturas Vailionis,
• Armandas Balčytis,
• Jitraporn Vongsvivut,
• Jing-Liang Li,
• Denver P. Linklater,
• Elena P. Ivanova,
• Vygantas Mizeikis,
• Mark J. Tobin,
• Junko Morikawa and
• Saulius Juodkazis

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 922–929, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.93

• were carried out for comparison at IR wavelengths of 2–10 μm using synchrotron radiation. A reliable distinction of transmission changes by only 1–2% as the anisotropy of amide bands was obtained from nanometer-thin slices of silk. Keywords: absorbance; anisotropy; retardance; silk; Introduction

On the transformation of “zincone”-like into porous ZnO thin films from sub-saturated plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition

• Alberto Perrotta,
• Julian Pilz,
• Stefan Pachmajer,
• Antonella Milella and
• Anna Maria Coclite

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 746–759, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.74

• . Moreover, the crystallinity and crystallite orientation could be tuned, ranging from a powder-like to a (100) preferential growth in the out-of-plane direction, as measured by synchrotron-radiation grazing incidence XRD. Calcination temperature ranges were identified in which pore formation and subsequent

• Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste for the allocation of synchrotron radiation beamtime and L. Barba and M. Polentarutti for aiding with the beamline XRD1. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant

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

• ), LMGP, F-38000 Grenoble, France European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), F-38054 Grenoble, France Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IMEP-LAHC, F-38000 Grenoble, France 10.3762/bjnano.10.38 Abstract The next generation of electronic devices requires faster operation velocity, higher storage capacity

Size limits of magnetic-domain engineering in continuous in-plane exchange-bias prototype films

• Alexander Gaul,
• Daniel Emmrich,
• Timo Ueltzhöffer,
• Henning Huckfeldt,
• Hatice Doğanay,
• Johanna Hackl,
• Muhammad Imtiaz Khan,
• Daniel M. Gottlob,
• Gregor Hartmann,
• André Beyer,
• Dennis Holzinger,
• Slavomír Nemšák,
• Claus M. Schneider,
• Armin Gölzhäuser,
• Günter Reiss and
• Arno Ehresmann

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2968–2979, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.276

• performed at beamline UE56/1-SGM of the synchrotron radiation facility BESSY II after excitation with right and left circularly polarized X-rays with an energy of 709 eV (Fe L3 edge). Prior to measurements, the capping layer was thinned by argon ion sputtering allowing the Fe photoelectrons to escape from

• the layer system. The XPEEM measurements were carried out in grazing incidence of the incoming synchrotron radiation while the angle between the photon -vector surface projection and the initially set EB field direction of the thin film was varied. Measurements of partial electron yield maps were

Effect of annealing treatments on CeO₂ grown on TiN and Si substrates by atomic layer deposition

• Silvia Vangelista,
• Rossella Piagge,
• Satu Ek and
• Alessio Lamperti

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 890–899, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.83

• beamlines using synchrotron radiation to probe the chemistry and local organizations at the atomic level. Finally, we believe that our results may be useful in terms of enabling future materials and device development, with the aim of controlling key film parameter such as texturing when relevant for

Identifying the nature of surface chemical modification for directed self-assembly of block copolymers

• Laura Evangelio,
• Federico Gramazio,
• Matteo Lorenzoni,
• Michaela Gorgoi,
• Francisco Miguel Espinosa,
• Ricardo García,
• Francesc Pérez-Murano and
• Jordi Fraxedas

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1972–1981, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.198

• more than 20 nm for polymeric materials [15]. HAXPES reaches its full potential when using synchrotron radiation as an excitation source since, in this case, photon energy (and thus kinetic energy) can be tuned so that the probing depth can be also varied in a controlled and continuous manner

• demonstrated that HAXPES using synchrotron radiation is a powerful spectroscopic tool to explore the chemical properties of surfaces and buried interfaces of brush layers for directed self-assembly of block copolymers, since valuable chemical information as a function of probing depth can be obtained. The

• CERCA Programme (Generalitat de Catalunya). Ricardo García acknowledges financial support from MAT2013-4458-R. Laura Evangelio acknowledges the Ministry of Education of Spain for her FPU grant (FPU 13/03746). We thank HZB for the allocation of synchrotron radiation beam time. Thanks are due to Dr

Fluorination of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes: from CF₄ plasma chemistry to surface functionalization

• Claudia Struzzi,
• Mattia Scardamaglia,
• Jean-François Colomer,
• Alberto Verdini,
• Luca Floreano,
• Rony Snyders and
• Carla Bittencourt

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1723–1733, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.173

• (≈1 eV) and an Ar ion gun (≤10 eV) is used. The valence band (VB) spectra are measured with 140 eV photon energy in the ALOISA experimental chamber at the Elettra synchrotron radiation facility (Italy) [40]. The base pressure is within 10−10 mTorr range. Photoelectrons are collected at normal emission