Cr/SmCo5/Cr films were fabricated by a DC facing targets magnetron sputtering. The influences of sputtered Ar pressure and substrate temperature on their microstructure and magnetic properties were investigated. Magnetic measurements indicate that the optimal substrate temperature was 450°C,...

Laser ablation has attracted special interest for the growth of thin films. It allows the formation of high quality layers and maintain stoichiometry in the films of even very complex elemental materials. In this work, high quality AgInSe2 (AIS) films were grown onto Si(100) substrates kept at...

Dislocation growth and microcrystals are investigated on the {110} faces of MMTC crystals grown from aqueous solution. Growth of MMTC crystals occurs in elementary steps (~ 0.81 nm), introduced by both simple and complex dislocation sources. The bright particles with regular sizes and shapes are...

The discovery of the single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) with a diameter of 0.4 nm has attracted extensive attentions. In this paper we report our attempt with two methods to directly observe these SWCNTs by AFM. The first one is to deposit the SWCNTs extracted from the zeolite matrix to a...

The processes of nickel electrodeposition on Pt/Si(100) substrate from an aqueous sulfate, Watts, and chloride solution have been studied using electrochemical techniques and atomic force microscopy (AFM). It was found that hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) was shifted more cathodically and the...

Lead-free Bi0.5(Na0.4K0.6)0.5TiO3 films have been synthesized by a chemical solution deposition method and deposited on p-Si(111) substrate by spin coating. Powder of the precursor solution heated at 650°C was studied by infrared scattering spectroscopy. The structural characteristics and...

Herein, we showed a different approach to directly single-molecule level visualization of the degradation of DNA in vitro tests using DNase I incubation based on high-resolution AFM imaging ex situ with fine relocation nanotechnology. A method of nanomanipulation termed as "modified dynamic...

TiO2 film deposited on glass was irradiated in air with single-shot KrF excimer laser pulse. The surface roughened as the result of the laser ablation. It is further noted that single-pulse irradiation with fluence ranging from 400 to 1200 mJ/cm2 gave rise to protrusion of the irradiated surface...

To investigate the initial morphological evolution of 321 stainless steel (SS) films, we examined the effect of sputtering time on the morphology of 321 SS film. In this study, a group of samples were prepared at nine different sputtering times within 20 s using radio-frequency (r.f.) magnetron...

A novel nanofabrication method that combines both "bottom-up" (template-assisted peptide self-assembling) and "top-down" (replica molding) techniques is introduced. A designer peptide, GAV-9 (NH2-VGGAVVAGV-CONH2), can epitaxially self-assemble into nanofilaments on the surface of mica, which is...