Calcium fluoride is a dielectric material with a wide bandgap ($12.1 eV) and a relatively high
dielectric constant ($6.8) that forms a van der Waals interface with two-dimensional (2D) …

Metal fluorides, like CaF2, are interesting dielectric materials which are optically transparent
over a wide wavelength range down to the vacuum ultraviolet regime. In addition, CaF2 has …

The adhesion and wetting between metal and ceramic is a basic problem in materials
science and engineering. For example, past materials selection for metal-ceramic …

Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) is used to grow ultrathin SrF 2 layers at different
temperatures on Ag (1 1 1) epitaxial films prepared on mica. The electronic properties …

The growth of epitaxial CaF2 and SrF2 thin films on single crystalline r-cut sapphire, MgO
(001) and biaxially textured Ni− W polycrystalline tape by low-temperature MOCVD is …

In this study we present results concerning the early growth stages of an insulator-metal
interface by means of scanning tunneling microscopy. We report the growth of aluminum …

We report measurements of AlF 3 thin film growth on Cu (1 1 1) at room temperature by
means of scanning tunneling microscopy. The growth proceeds by the formation of fractal …

The use and the study of semi-insulating layers on metal and semiconductor surfaces have
found continuous interest in the past decades. So far, the control of the sizes and growth …

A double sample holder supporting both a metal sample and an insulator crystal for high-
resolution scanning probe microscopy experiments is described. The metal sample serves …

A new diffusion model based on kinematic properties and supported by Metropolis Monte
Carlo free energy minimization and density functional theory calculations is proposed in this …