Use and performance criteria of photonic devices increase in various application areas such
as information and communication, lighting, and photovoltaics. In many current and future …

In situ attenuated total reflection surface enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy (ATR‐
SEIRAS) is often used to investigate the near‐surface electrocatalytic reaction environment …

Plasmonic Schottky devices have attracted considerable attention for use in practical
applications based on photoelectric conversion, because they enable light to be harvested …

Detection of nitroaromatic compounds (NACs) is an important applied task for environmental
monitoring, medical diagnostics, and forensic analysis. However, detection of NAC vapors is …

A better understanding of the dynamic behavior of polymer chains on solid surfaces is
indispensable for the design and construction of high-performance polymer composites. We …

Electroactive self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) bearing a ferrocene (Fc) redox couple
were chemically assembled on H-terminated semiconducting degenerate-doped n-type Si …

Metal (M) contact with a semiconductor (S) introduces metal-induced gap states (MIGS),
which makes it difficult to study the intrinsic electrical properties of S. A bilayer of metal with …

Cleaning semiconductor surfaces by atomic hydrogen or hydrogen plasma has gained
significant interest because such a dry-cleaning method enables to reduce consumption of …

Nanomaterials based on monoatomic bismuth (Bi) are attracting particular attention because
they are candidates of two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators and Rashba metals …

We report the first attachment of polymers with pendant vinyl groups to hydrogen-terminated
silicon (111)(Si (111)-H); 1, 2-polybutadiene (M w= 3200− 3500 g/mol) was attached to Si …