Silica on silicon carbide

V Presser, KG Nickel - Critical reviews in solid state and materials …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Silicon carbide (SiC) as both the most important non-oxide ceramic and promising
semiconductor material grows stoichiometric SiO 2 as its native oxide. During passive …

Diffusion of fission products and radiation damage in SiC

JB Malherbe - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
A major problem with most of the present nuclear reactors is their safety in terms of the
release of radioactivity into the environment during accidents. In some of the future nuclear …

Decoupling graphene from SiC (0001) via oxidation

S Oida, FR McFeely, JB Hannon, RM Tromp… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
When epitaxial graphene layers are formed on SiC (0001), the first carbon layer (known as
the “buffer layer”), while relatively easy to synthesize, does not have the desirable electrical …

Nonreciprocal interactions induced by water in confinement

F Jiménez-Ángeles, KJ Harmon, TD Nguyen… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Water mediates electrostatic interactions via the orientation of its dipoles around ions,
molecules, and interfaces. This induced water polarization consequently influences multiple …

Position-dependent and millimetre-range photodetection in phototransistors with micrometre-scale graphene on SiC

BK Sarker, E Cazalas, TF Chung, I Childres… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The extraordinary optical and electronic properties of graphene make it a promising
component of high-performance photodetectors. However, in typical graphene-based …

Structural and electronic properties of an abrupt interface model: Classical molecular dynamics simulations and density functional calculations

F Devynck, F Giustino, P Broqvist, A Pasquarello - Physical Review B …, 2007 - APS
Using a density functional approach, we study structural and electronic properties of the 4 H
(0001)-SiC∕ SiO 2 interface. Through the sequential use of classical and ab initio …

Electrochemical Pd nanodeposits on a Au nanoisland template supported on Si (100): Formation of Pd− Au alloy and interfacial electronic structures

Y Sohn, D Pradhan, KT Leung - ACS nano, 2010 - ACS Publications
Palladium nanoparticles have uniformly been electrodeposited on a Au nanoisland template
(NIT) supported on a Si (100) substrate, which exhibits Au-rich, Pd-rich, and/or …

Atomic scale control and understanding of cubic silicon carbide surface reconstructions, nanostructures and nanochemistry

PG Soukiassian, HB Enriquez - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
The atomic scale ordering and properties of cubic silicon carbide (β-SiC) surfaces and
nanostructures are investigated by atom-resolved room and high-temperature scanning …

Pd-on-Si catalysts prepared via galvanic displacement for the selective hydrogenation of para-chloronitrobenzene

Q Wei, YS Shi, KQ Sun, BQ Xu - Chemical Communications, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The direct redox reaction (galvanic displacement) between Pd2+ and substrate Si was used
to deposit Pd on Si, and the Pd–Si catalysts enabled a chemoselective hydrogenation of …

Adsorption of atomic and molecular oxygen on 3C-SiC(111) and surfaces: A first-principles study

J Wang, L Zhang, Q Zeng, GL Vignoles, L Cheng… - Physical Review B …, 2009 - APS
Density-functional theory calculations were performed to investigate the adsorption of
oxygen on 3C-SiC (111) and (1¯ 1¯ 1¯) surfaces, including single O atom, double O atoms …