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Photoelectron spectroscopy of wet and gaseous samples through electron transparent graphene membranes

September 22, 2014
Author(s)
Jurgen Kraus, Robert Reichelt, Sebastian Gunther, Luca Gregoratti, Tang Lin Teo, Maya Kiskinova, Alexander Yulaev, Ivan Vlassiouk, Andrei Kolmakov
Photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) and microscopy are highly demanded for exploring morphologically complex solid-gas and solid-liquid interfaces under realistic conditions but the very small electron mean free path inside the dense media imposes serious

Technique for AFM Tip Characterization

September 15, 2014
Author(s)
Ndubuisi G. Orji, Ronald G. Dixson, Hiroshi Itoh, Chumei Wang
In atomic force microscopy (AFM) metrology, the scanning tip is a major source of uncertainty. Images taken with an AFM show an apparent broadening of feature dimensions due to the finite size of the tip. An AFM image is a combination of the feature shape

Efficient diffractive phase optics for electrons

September 1, 2014
Author(s)
Tyler R. Harvey, Jordan S. Pierce, Amit Agrawal, Benjamin McMorran, Peter Ercius, Martin Linck
Electron diffraction gratings can be used to imprint well-defined phase structure onto an electron beam. For example, diffraction gratings have been used to prepare electron beams with unique phase dislocations, such as electron vortex beams, which hold

Kilohertz Rotation of Nanorods Propelled by Ultrasound, Traced by Microvortex Advection of Nanoparticles

August 26, 2014
Author(s)
Andrew L. Balk, Lamar O. Mair, Pramod Mathai, Paul N. Patrone, Wei Wang, Suzanne Ahmed, Thomas Mallouk, James A. Liddle, Samuel M. Stavis
We measure the microvortical flows around gold nanorods propelled by ultrasound in water using polystyrene nanoparticles as optical tracers. We infer the rotational frequencies of such nanomotors assuming a hydrodynamic model of this interaction. In this

Pseudomagnetic Fields in a Locally Strained Graphene Drumhead

August 25, 2014
Author(s)
Shuze Zhu, Yinjun Huang, Nikolai Klimov, David B. Newell, Nikolai Zhitenev, Joseph A. Stroscio, Santiago D. Solares Rivera, Teng Li
Recent experiments reveal that a scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) probe tip can generate a highly localized strain field in a graphene drumhead, which in turn leads to pseudomagnetic fields in the graphene that can spatially confine graphene charge

Analysis of the Noise Spectra from Oxidized Superparamagnetic Nanoparticles

August 18, 2014
Author(s)
Solomon I. Woods, Snorri Ingvarsson, Shouheng Sun, John Kirtley
Expressions for the thermal noise from a collection of exchange-biased magnetic nanoparticles are derived and used to analyze the magnetic noise from thin films of partially oxidized nanoparticles. Functionalized Co nanoparticles with diameters between 3

Effects of Lateral Tip Control in CD-AFM Width Metrology

August 12, 2014
Author(s)
Ronald G. Dixson, Boon Ping Ng, Ndubuisi G. Orji
Critical dimension atomic force microscopes (CD-AFMs) use flared tips and two-dimensional sensing and position control of the tip-sample interaction to enable scanning of features with near-vertical or reentrant sidewalls. Sidewall sensing usually involves

Attachment of a Reduction-Oxidative Active Diruthenium Compound to Au and Si Surfaces by Click Chemistry

August 10, 2014
Author(s)
Sujitra J. Pookpanratana, Joseph W. Robertson, Curt A. Richter, Christina A. Hacker, Lee J. Richter, Julia Savchenko, Steven Cummings, Tong Ren
We report the formation of molecular monolayers containing redox-active diruthenium(II,III) compound to gold and silicon surfaces via “click” chemistry. The use of Cu-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition enables modular design of molecular surfaces and

Nanoscale Imaging and Spectroscopy of Plasmonic Modes with the PTIR technique

August 1, 2014
Author(s)
Aaron M. Katzenmeyer, Jungseok Chae, Richard Kasica, Glenn Holland, Basudev Lahiri, Andrea Centrone
The collective oscillation of conduction electrons in plasmonic nanomaterials allows the coupling of propagating light waves with nanoscale volumes of matter ("hot spots") and allows engineering their optical response from the UV to THz as a function of

Dielectric characterization by microwave cavity perturbation corrected for non-uniform fields

July 23, 2014
Author(s)
Nathan D. Orloff, Jan Obrzut, Christian J. Long, Thomas F. Lam, James C. Booth, David R. Novotny, James A. Liddle, Pavel Kabos
The non-uniform fields that occur due to the slot in the cavity through which the sample is inserted and those due to the sample geometry itself decrease the accuracy of dielectric characterization by cavity perturbation at microwave frequencies. To

High-speed, high-purity separation of gold nanoparticle-DNA origami constructs using centrifugation

July 23, 2014
Author(s)
Seung H. Ko, Luis F. Vargas Lara, Paul Patrone, Samuel Stavis, Francis W. Starr, Jack F. Douglas, James Alexander Liddle
DNA origami is a powerful platform for assembling gold nanoparticle constructs, an important class of nanostructure with numerous applications. Such constructs are assembled by the association of complementary DNA oligomers. These association reactions

Pattern Transfer of Hydrogen Depassivation Lithography Patterns into Silicon with Atomically Traceable Placement and Size Control

July 17, 2014
Author(s)
Josh Ballard, Stephen McDonnell, Don Dick, Maia Bischof, Joseph Fu, D Jaeger, James Owen , w Owen, Justin Alexander, Udi Fuchs, Pradeep Namboodiri, Kai Li, John Randall, Robert Wallace, Yves Chabal, Richard Reidy, Richard M. Silver
Reducing the scale of etched nanostructures below the 10 nm range eventually will require an atomic scale understanding of the masks being used in order to maintain exquisite control over both feature size and feature density. Here, we demonstrate a method

Comparing Matched Polymer:Fullerene Solar Cells Made by Solution-Sequential Processing and Traditional Blend Casting: Nanoscale Structure and Device Performance

July 8, 2014
Author(s)
Andrew Herzing, Steven A. Hawks, Jordan C. Aguirre, Laura T. Schelhas, Robert Thompson, Rachel Huber, Amy Ferreira, Guangye Zhang, Robert A. Street, Sarah Tolbert, Benjamin Schwartz
Efficient bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells based on polymer:fullerene photoactive layers can be created either by traditional blend casting (BC), where the components are mixed together in solution before being cast, or by solution-sequential

Cathodoluminescence Quantum Efficiency of Quantum Dot Thin Films

July 7, 2014
Author(s)
Heayoung Yoon, Christopher C. Bohn, Youngmin Lee, Seung H. Ko, Jonathan S. Steckel, Seth Coe-Sullivan, Nikolai B. Zhitenev
A thin film of quantum dots (QD) was used to visualize the local photo-response of polycrystalline CdTe solar cells by down-converting an electron beam of high energy to photons of visible light. The efficient photon generation in the QD film is compared

Imaging the p-n junction in a gallium nitride nanowire with a scanning microwave microscope

July 2, 2014
Author(s)
Atif A. Imtiaz, Thomas M. Wallis, Joel C. Weber, Kevin J. Coakley, Matthew D. Brubaker, Paul T. Blanchard, Kristine A. Bertness, Norman A. Sanford
We used a broadband, atomic-force-microscope-based, scanning microwave microscope (AFM-SMM) to probe the axial dependence of the depletion in a GaN nanowire (NW) p-n junction structure. The NWs were c-axis oriented and grown by molecular beam epitaxy. The
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