Excimer laser irradiation (ELI) has recently been revealed to simultaneously increase the work function (ϕ) and carrier concentration (N) in doped In2O3 films, suggesting a potential benefit in fabricating transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) for organic light emitting ...

We have measured electrical transport across epitaxial, nanometer-sized metal-semiconductor interfaces by contacting CoSi2-islands grown on Si(111) with an STM-tip. The conductance per unit area was found to increase with decreasing diode area. Indeed, the zero-bias con...

Stacks of intrinsic Josephson junctions (IJJs) in high-temperature superconductors enable the fabrication of compact sources of coherent terahertz radiation. Here we demonstrate that multiple stacks patterned on the same Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta crystal can - under optimized...

We report on the growth, fabrication, and experimental study of distributed feed-back antimonide diode lasers with buried grating. A second order index-coupled grating was defined by interferometric lithography on the top of the laser waveguide and dry etched by reactiv...

We report the growth and properties of epitaxial MgB2 thin films on (0001) Al2O3 substrates. The MgB2 thin films were prepared by depositing boron films via RF magnetron sputtering, followed by a post-deposition anneal at 850C in magnesium vapor. X-ray diffraction and c...

Free layers with double MgO/CoFeB interfaces are an established solution for improving the thermal stability at small device dimensions in perpendicular spin transfer torque-magnetic random access memory devices. A thin spacer layer, composed usually of Ta, W, Hf, etc.,...

Scanning tunneling microscope (STM) is used for time resolved nanoscale observation of fracture events in a mica single crystal cleaved in accordance with Obreimoff’s [Proc. R. Soc. London Ser. A 127, 290 (1930)] experiment scheme. The changes in separation between the ...

The mobility of pentacene thin-film transistors (TFTs) is correlated with the dielectric properties of their insulators. We varied the dielectric properties of the poly(4-vinylphenol) insulators of such TFTs by changing the molar ratio of the prepolymer/cross-linking ag...

Fine line superconductors, approximately 5 μm in width and 260 nm thick, were formed from Y‐Ba‐Cu on 〈100〉SrTiO3 by the combined methods of metalorganic deposition and selective area electron beam exposure. The lines were written in metal neodecanoates using an electron...

Cross sections for production of excited states of Cd II resulting from He+‐Cd and He+2‐Cd collisions are reported. These data suggest that high‐pressure (∼ atmospheres) operation of a He‐Cd laser in which pumping is achieved by charge‐transfer excitation with reactant ...