In the past decade there have been many theoretical and experimental efforts to study the
mechanisms of solid state dewetting, that means the spontaneous agglomeration of a thin …

Noble metal nanostructures have been widely explored as an effective method to increase
photon absorption and charge separation in plasmonic photocatalysis. In this study, we …

Solid-state dewetting of polycrystalline silver thin films was investigated with in situ and real
time Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy at High Temperature (HT-ESEM) in …

This work reports an original method for the fabrication of metal–insulator–semiconductor
(MIS) structures with silicon nanocrystals (Si NCs)-based active layers embedded in the …

We present a diffuse-interface model for the solid-state dewetting problem with anisotropic
surface energies in R d for d∈{2, 3}. The introduced model consists of the anisotropic Cahn …

The goal of this study was to explore the possibility to control the nucleation and expansion
of holes during initial stages of solid state dewetting of thin polycrystalline Au film deposited …

Owing to its ability to produce an assembly of nanoislands with controllable size and
locations, the solid state dewetting of patterned films has recently received great attention. A …

Solid-state dewetting phenomenon in silver thin films offers a straightforward method to
obtain structures having controlled shape or size-this latter in principle spanning several …

Precise organization of metallic and semiconducting particles of small dimensionality and
over large scales is a challenging requirement at the basis of many photonic, electronic, and …

Since metals are high-surface energy materials, it is difficult to stabilize metal nanoparticles
on conductive substrates, on the other side, producing nanoparticles on low surface energy …