Nanoscale heterostructures of covalent intermetallics should give birth to a wide range of
interface-driven physical and chemical properties. Such a level of design however remains …

Metal silicide thin films and nanostructures typically employed in electronics have recently
gained significant attention in battery technology, where they are used as active or inactive …

Silicides exhibit high thermal conductivities, excellent thermal shock resistances, high
hardnesses, and low electrical resistivities. Over the past two decades, metal silicides have …

The reduced dimensionality and interfacial effects in magnetic nanostructures open the
feasibility to tailor magnetic ordering. Here, we report the synthesis of ultrathin metallic …

The utilization of graphene on silicon carbide (SiC) substrates holds substantial promise for
advancements in spintronics and nanoelectronics. Furthermore, incorporating magnetic …

Magnetism has recently been observed in nominally nonmagnetic iron disilicide in the form
of epitaxial γ-FeSi2 nanostructures on Si (111) substrate. To explore the origin of the …

In this paper, we studied the superconducting properties of the LaSi 2 (00l)/Si (100) single-
crystalline thin films prepared by the molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) method with different …

Self-organized formation of exchange-spring magnets in Permalloy-derived epitaxial silicide
nanostructures, fabricated by deposition of Ni 80 Fe 20 onto a vicinal Si (1 1 1) substrate, is …

Ternary silicide nanostructures were grown by solid phase epitaxy of Ni 80 Fe 20 Permalloy
on a vicinal Si (0 0 1) surface, with the aim of increasing magnetic anisotropy and stability in …

We have demonstrated the formation of β-FeSi 2 nanodots (NDs) with an areal density as
high as∼ 10 11 cm− 2 on SiO 2 by exposing Fe NDs to SiH 4 at 400 C and characterized …