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Advanced Materials Nanocharacterization

Filippo Giannazzo, Pierre Eyben, Jacek Baranowski, Jean Camassel and Stefan Lanyi

  1. Micro-Raman and micro-transmission imaging experiments have been done on epitaxial graphene grown on the C- and Si-faces of on-axis 6H-SiC substrates. On the C-face it is shown that the SiC sublimation process...

    Authors: Antoine Tiberj, Nicolas Camara, Philippe Godignon and Jean Camassel
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:478
  2. Recently, we have suggested a scale-invariant model for a nano-transistor. In agreement with experiments a close-to-linear thresh-old trace was found in the calculated I D - V D-traces separating the regimes of c...

    Authors: Ulrich Wulf, Marcus Krahlisch and Hans Richter
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:365
  3. In this work, we present a nanometer resolution structural characterization of epitaxial graphene (EG) layers grown on 4H-SiC (0001) 8° off-axis, by annealing in inert gas ambient (Ar) in a wide temperature ra...

    Authors: Carmelo Vecchio, Sushant Sonde, Corrado Bongiorno, Martin Rambach, Rositza Yakimova, Vito Raineri and Filippo Giannazzo
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:269
  4. Enormous research effort has been put into optimizing organic-based opto-electronic systems for efficient generation of free charge carriers. This optimization is mainly due to typically high dissociation ener...

    Authors: Bohuslav Rezek, Jan Čermák, Alexander Kromka, Martin Ledinský, Pavel Hubík, Jiří J Mareš, Adam Purkrt, Vĕra Cimrová, Antonín Fejfar and Jan Kočka
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:238
  5. Understanding the roles of disorder and metal/graphene interface on the electronic and transport properties of graphene-based systems is crucial for a consistent analysis of the data deriving from experimental...

    Authors: Antonino La Magna and Ioannis Deretzis
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:234
  6. In this article, an angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES), X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), and density-functional theory (DFT) investigations of water and ammonia adsorption on graphene/Ni(111...

    Authors: Stefan Böttcher, Martin Weser, Yuriy S Dedkov, Karsten Horn, Elena N Voloshina and Beate Paulus
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:214
  7. Semiconducting CrSi2 nanocrystallites (NCs) were grown by reactive deposition epitaxy of Cr onto n-type silicon and covered with a 50-nm epitaxial silicon cap. Two types of samples were investigated: in one of th...

    Authors: László Dózsa, Štefan Lányi, Vito Raineri, Filippo Giannazzo and Nikolay Gennadevich Galkin
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:209
  8. Micro-Raman (μRS) and micro-photoluminescence spectroscopy (μPLS) are demonstrated as valuable characterization techniques for fundamental research on silicon as well as for technological issues in the photovo...

    Authors: Paul Gundel, Martin C Schubert, Friedemann D Heinz, Robert Woehl, Jan Benick, Johannes A Giesecke, Dominik Suwito and Wilhelm Warta
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:197
  9. Electron beam methods, such as cathodoluminescence (CL) that is based on an electron-probe microanalyser, and (200) dark field and high angle annular dark field (HAADF) in a scanning transmission electron micr...

    Authors: Cesare Frigeri, Alexey Aleksandrovich Shakhmin, Dmitry Anatolievich Vinokurov and Maria Vladimirovna Zamoryanskaya
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:194
  10. Here, we show that the Raman intensity of the G-mode in tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) is strongly dependent on the height of the bundle. Moreover, using TERS we are able to position different single-w...

    Authors: Niculina Peica, Christian Thomsen and Janina Maultzsch
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:174
  11. In this article, a multiscale investigation of few graphene layers grown on 6H-SiC(000-1) under ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) conditions is presented. At 100-μm scale, the authors show that the UHV growth yields few ...

    Authors: Antoine Tiberj, Jean-Roch Huntzinger, Jean Camassel, Fanny Hiebel, Ather Mahmood, Pierre Mallet, Cecile Naud and Jean-Yves Veuillen
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:171
  12. We report on the use of the self-organization process of sputtered gold nanoparticles on a self-assembled block copolymer film deposited by horizontal precipitation Langmuir-Blodgett (HP-LB) method. The morpho...

    Authors: Vanna Torrisi, Francesco Ruffino, Antonino Licciardello, Maria Grazia Grimaldi and Giovanni Marletta
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:167
  13. Silicon nanoclusters are of prime interest for new generation of optoelectronic and microelectronics components. Physical properties (light emission, carrier storage...) of systems using such nanoclusters are ...

    Authors: Manuel Roussel, Etienne Talbot, Fabrice Gourbilleau and Philippe Pareige
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:164
  14. This work reports a nanoscale electro-structural characterisation of Ti/Al ohmic contacts formed on p-type Al-implanted silicon carbide (4H-SiC). The morphological and the electrical properties of the Al-impla...

    Authors: Alessia Frazzetto, Filippo Giannazzo, Raffaella Lo Nigro, Salvatore Di Franco, Corrado Bongiorno, Mario Saggio, Edoardo Zanetti, Vito Raineri and Fabrizio Roccaforte
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:158
  15. Conductive-probe atomic force microscopy (CP-AFM) measurements reveal the existence of a conductive channel at the interface between p-type hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) and n-type crystalline silicon (

    Authors: Jean-Paul Kleider, Jose Alvarez, Alexander Vitalievitch Ankudinov, Alexander Sergeevitch Gudovskikh, Ekaterina Vladimirovna Gushchina, Martin Labrune, Olga Alexandrovna Maslova, Wilfried Favre, Marie-Estelle Gueunier-Farret, Pere Roca i Cabarrocas and Eugene Ivanovitch Terukov
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:152
  16. Conductive tips in atomic force microscopy (AFM) can be used to localize field-enhanced metal-induced solid-phase crystallization (FE-MISPC) of amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) at room temperature down to nanoscale ...

    Authors: Elisseos Verveniotis, Bohuslav Rezek, Emil Šípek, Jiří Stuchlík, Martin Ledinský and Jan Kočka
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:145
  17. We apply atomic force microscope for local electrostatic charging of oxygen-terminated nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) thin films deposited on silicon, to induce electrostatically driven self-assembly of colloid...

    Authors: Elisseos Verveniotis, Alexander Kromka, Martin Ledinský, Jan Čermák and Bohuslav Rezek
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:144
  18. Self-assembled iron-silicide nanostructures were prepared by reactive deposition epitaxy of Fe onto silicon. Capacitance-voltage, current-voltage, and deep level transient spectroscopy (DLTS) were used to meas...

    Authors: László Dózsa, György Molnár, Vito Raineri, Filippo Giannazzo, János Ferencz and Štefan Lányi
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:140
  19. The effects of near-surface processing on the properties of AlGaN/GaN heterostructures were studied, combining conventional electrical characterization on high-electron mobility transistors (HEMTs), with advan...

    Authors: Giuseppe Greco, Filippo Giannazzo, Alessia Frazzetto, Vito Raineri and Fabrizio Roccaforte
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:132
  20. In this work, the transport properties of metal/3C-SiC interfaces were monitored employing a nanoscale characterization approach in combination with conventional electrical measurements. In particular, using c...

    Authors: Jens Eriksson, Fabrizio Roccaforte, Sergey Reshanov, Stefano Leone, Filippo Giannazzo, Raffaella LoNigro, Patrick Fiorenza and Vito Raineri
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:120
  21. The conductive atomic force microscopy provided a local characterization of the dielectric heterogeneities in CaCu3Ti4O12 (CCTO) thin films deposited by MOCVD on IrO2 bottom electrode. In particular, both techniq...

    Authors: Patrick Fiorenza, Raffaella Lo Nigro and Vito Raineri
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:118
  22. The study of surface morphology of Au deposited on mica is crucial for the fabrication of flat Au films for applications in biological, electronic, and optical devices. The understanding of the growth mechanis...

    Authors: Francesco Ruffino, Vanna Torrisi, Giovanni Marletta and Maria Grazia Grimaldi
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:112
  23. Transparent conductive films (TCFs) are critical components of a myriad of technologies including flat panel displays, light-emitting diodes, and solar cells. Graphene-based TCFs have attracted a lot of attent...

    Authors: Ryousuke Ishikawa, Masashi Bando, Yoshitaka Morimoto and Adarsh Sandhu
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:111
  24. The electrical conduction properties of lateral and vertical silicon nanowires (SiNWs) were investigated using a conductive-probe atomic force microscopy (AFM). Horizontal SiNWs, which were synthesized by the ...

    Authors: José Alvarez, Irène Ngo, Marie-Estelle Gueunier-Farret, Jean-Paul Kleider, Linwei Yu, Pere Rocai Cabarrocas, Simon Perraud, Emmanuelle Rouvière, Caroline Celle, Céline Mouchet and Jean-Pierre Simonato
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:110
  25. In this article, a scanning probe method based on nanoscale capacitance measurements was used to investigate the lateral homogeneity of the electron mean free path both in pristine and ion-irradiated graphene....

    Authors: Filippo Giannazzo, Sushant Sonde, Emanuele Rimini and Vito Raineri
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:109
  26. In this study, atomic force microscopy-related techniques have been used to investigate, at the nanoscale, how the polycrystallization of an Al2O3-based gate stack, after a thermal annealing process, affects the ...

    Authors: Mario Lanza, Vanessa Iglesias, Marc Porti, Montse Nafria and Xavier Aymerich
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:108
  27. This special issue of Nanoscale Research Letters contains scientific contributions presented at the Symposium D "Multidimensional Electrical and Chemical Characterization at the Nanometer-scale of Organic and Ino...

    Authors: Filippo Giannazzo, Pierre Eyben, Jacek Baranowski, Jean Camassel and Stefan Lányi
    Citation: Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:107