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Volume Determination of Irregularly-shaped Quasi-spherical Nanoparticles

September 22, 2016
Author(s)
Ravikiran Attota
Nanoparticles (NPs) are widely used in diverse application areas, such as medicine, engineering, and cosmetics. The size (or volume) of NPs is one of the most important parameters for their successful application. It is relatively straightforward to

Atom Probe Tomography Analysis of Ag Doping in 2D Layered Material (PbSe)5(Bi2Se3)3

September 7, 2016
Author(s)
Arunima Singh, Albert Davydov, Francesca M. Tavazza, Lincoln J. Lauhon, Xiaochen Ren, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Lei Fang
Impurity doping in two-dimensional (2D) materials can provide a route to tuning electronic properties, so it is important to be able to determine the distribution of dopant atoms within and between layers. Here we report the tomographic mapping of dopants

Evaluation of Carbon Nanotube Probes in Critical Dimension Atomic Force Microscopes

August 26, 2016
Author(s)
Jinho Choi, Byong Chon Park, Sang Jung Ahn, Dal-Hyun Kim, J Lyou, Ronald G. Dixson, Ndubuisi George Orji, Joseph Fu, Theodore V. Vorburger
The decreasing size of semiconductor features and the increasing structural complexity of advanced devices has placed continuously greater demands on manufacturing metrology-arising both from the measurement challenges of smaller feature sizes and the

Toward Clean Suspended CVD Graphene

August 26, 2016
Author(s)
Alexander Yulaev, Guangjun Cheng, Angela R. Hight Walker, Ivan Vlassiouk, Alline Myers, Marina S. Leite, Andrei Kolmakov
The application of suspended graphene as electron transparent supporting media in electron microscopy, vacuum electronics, and micromechanical devices requires the least destructive and maximally clean transfer from their original growth substrate to the

Energy Bandgap and Edge States in an Epitaxially Grown Graphene/h-BN Heterostructure

August 9, 2016
Author(s)
Beomyong Hwang, Hwang Jeongwoon, Jong K. Yoon, Sungjun Lim, Sungmin Kim, Minjun Lee, Jeong H. Kwon, Hongwoo Baek, Dongchul Sung, Gunn Kim, Suklyun Hong, Jisson Ihm, Joseph A. Stroscio, Young Kuk
Securing a stable bandgap is an essential requirement for applications of graphene layers in switching devices. Theoretical studies have suggested creating a bulk bandgap and modified edge states with an asymmetry between the A and B sub-lattice sites of

Current status and future directions for in situ transmission electron microscopy

August 6, 2016
Author(s)
M. L. Taheri, Eric Stach, Ilke Arslan, Peter A. Crozier, Kabius Bernd, Thomas LaGrange, Andrew Minor, Seiji Takeda, Mihaela M. Tanase, Jakob B. Wagner, Renu Sharma
This review article discusses the current and future possibilities for the application of in situ transmission electron microscopy to reveal synthesis pathways and functional mechanisms in complex and nanoscale materials. The findings of a group of

Reversible adsorption kinetics of near surface dimer colloids

August 2, 2016
Author(s)
Paul NMN Salipante, Steven D Hudson
We investigate the effect of shape on reversible adsorption kinetics using colloidal polystyrene dimers near a solid glass surface as a model system. The interaction between colloid and wall is tuned using electrostatic, depletion, and gravity forces to

Electrospray Differential Mobility Hyphenated with Single Particle Mass Spectrometry for Characterization of Nanoparticles and their Aggregates

August 1, 2016
Author(s)
Jiaojie Tan, Jingyu Liu, Mingdong M. Li, Hind El Hadri, Vincent A. Hackley, Michael R. Zachariah
The hyphenation of electrospray-differential mobility analysis with single particle-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ES-DMA-spICP-MS) was demonstrated with the capacity for real- time size, mass and concentration measurement of nanoparticles

Giant surface conductivity enhancement in a carbon nanotube composite by ultraviolet light exposure

July 29, 2016
Author(s)
Christian J. Long, Nathan D. Orloff, Kevin A. Twedt, Thomas F. Lam, Luis Fernando Vargas Lara, Minhua Zhao, Bharath NMN Natarajan, Keana C. Scott, Eric Marksz, Tinh Nguyen, Jack F. Douglas, Jabez J. McClelland, Edward J. Garboczi, Jan Obrzut, James A. Liddle
Carbon nanotube composites are lightweight, multifunctional materials with readily adjustable mechanical and electrical properties—relevant to the aerospace, automotive, and sporting goods industries as high-performance building materials. Here, we combine

Introducing a New NIST Reference Material: Multiwall Carbon Nanotube Soot

July 25, 2016
Author(s)
Ann C. Chiaramonti Debay, Ryan M. White, Jason D. Holm, Elisabeth Mansfield
Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) play a significant role in the nascent nanotechnology industry, due to their remarkable combination of mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties. These materials are specialty additives, reinforcing a diverse

Versatile fluidic cell for in-situ electrochemical measurements in SEM

July 24, 2016
Author(s)
Jeyavel Velmurugan, Ana Stevanovic, Feng Yi, David A. LaVan, Andrei Kolmakov
Electrochemical techniques such as like electrodeposition are crucially important for fabrication of nanostructured materials. The details of cluster nucleation and growth at early stages of electrodeposition are extremely important for morphology and

Multiscale Metrologies for Process Optimization of Carbon Nanotube Polymer Composites

July 18, 2016
Author(s)
Bharath N. Natarajan, Nate Orloff, Rana N. Ashkar, Sagar Doshi, Kevin A. Twedt, Ajay Krishnamurthy, Chelsea S. Davis, Aaron M. Forster, Erik Thostenson, Jan Obrzut, Renu Sharma, James Alexander Liddle
Carbon nanotube (CNT) polymer composites are materials with attractive multifunctional properties that are becoming used in a growing range of commercial applications. With the increasing demand for these materials, it is imperative to develop methods for

Phonon Anharmonicity in Bulk Td-MoTe2

July 18, 2016
Author(s)
Albert Davydov, Sergiy Krylyuk, Irina Kalish, Ryan Beams, Patrick Vora
We examine anharmonic contributions to the optical phonon frequency in bulk Td-MoTe2 phase through temperature-dependent Raman spectroscopy. At temperatures greater than 100 K we find that the optical phonon modes redshift linearly with temperature in
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