Solid films are usually metastable or unstable in the as-deposited state, and they will dewet
or agglomerate to form islands when heated to sufficiently high temperatures. This process …

Formation and dispersion of metal nanoparticles on oxide surfaces in site-specific or even
arrayed configuration are key in various technological processes such as catalysis …

Nanoporous gold nanoparticles are fabricated by combining a thermal dewetting process of
Au/Ag bi-layer films and a dealloying process. As the gold concentration is small enough …

Solid-state dewetting describes the transformation of thin films into a set of particles or
droplets at temperatures well below the melting temperature of the bulk. In this work in situ …

Solid‐state dewetting of thin metallic films deposited on an inert substrate is considered as a
simple method for the fabrication of metal nanoparticles and alloy nanoparticles. By …

Instabilities of thin wetting films show different dewetting dynamics when supported by
different solid substrates. Unstable thin films on the homogeneous substrate are studied …

Templated dewetting of a Co/Pt metal bilayer film on a topographic substrate was used to
assemble arrays of Co–Pt alloy nanoparticles, with highly uniform particle size, shape and …

Thin film platinum: palladium thermocouples were fabricated on alumina and mullite
surfaces using radio frequency sputtering and characterized after high temperature …

Plasmonic nanostructures promise sensing capabilities with the potential for ultrasensitive
and robust assays in life sciences and biomedicine. Silver island films represent an …

A combination of a “top-down” approach (substrate-conformal imprint lithography) and two
“bottom-up” approaches (dewetting and dealloying) enables fabrication of perfectly ordered …