This review describes progress in the field of physisorption. Significant advances in the
knowledge of microscopic structures and interactions of weakly bound adsorbates are …

The Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering of the US Department of Energy (DOE)
sponsored a workshop to identify cutting-edge research needs and opportunities, enabled …

Currently, the nature of self-assembly of three-dimensional epitaxial islands or quantum dots
(QDs) in a lattice-mismatched heteroepitaxial growth system, such as InAs/GaAs (001) and …

Magneto-optical Kerr effect, is used to investigate the magnetization of film made of
uncoalesced cobalt and cobalt–platinum nanocrystals. For the pure cobalt nanocrystals …

Self-organized patterning of supported nanoclusters by virtue of low cost and readiness for
mass production is considered as one of the most promising methods; however, this …

Ion-beam-synthesized Ge 74 nanocrystals embedded in an amorphous silica matrix exhibit
large compressive stresses in the as-grown state. The compressive stress is determined …

For self-assembled nanodots, the ultimate dream is to simultaneously achieve tunable
uniformity in size, spatial distribution, chemical composition, and crystallographic orientation …

We report a radically different approach to the versatile fabrication of nanometer-scale
preselected patterns over large areas. Standard lithography, thin film deposition, and …

We present Co nanoparticle chains grown by vapor deposition over a single-crystalline Al 2
O 3 layers on NiAl (100) with such features as self-limiting size distribution with the average …

MnSb nanoparticles with average lateral diameters⟨ d⟩ from 5 to 30 nm are synthesized on
ultra thin silicon nitride covered Si (111) by codeposition of Mn and Sb. These MnSb …