In the 1988 edition of Nature's' News and Views', J Maddox wrote that'one of the continuing
scandals in physical sciences is that it remains in general impossible to predict the structure …

Spin-averaged and spin-polarized scanning tunneling spectroscopy at low temperature was
performed on nanometer-scale triangular Co islands grown epitaxially on Cu (111) in the …

The growth, structure and morphology of thin Co layers with a thickness ranging from 1 to 15
monolayers deposited at room temperature on Pt (111) have been studied by the use of …

To realize nonprecious‐metal catalysts with practical applicability for the hydrogen evolution
reaction (HER), improved corrosion resistance and catalytic activity are required. In this …

High-purity Co and Ni thin films were deposited directly onto the native oxide of Si wafers
and onto TaN and TiN films supported on Si wafers by the hydrogen reduction of their …

Though correlations between surface structure and magnetism are evident, surface structure
determinations of ultrathin magnetic films in the crystallographic sense are available only for …

Co islands grown on Cu (111) with a stacking fault at the interface present a conductance in
the empty electronic states larger than the Co islands that follow the stacking sequence of …

Recent advances in the stabilization and manipulation of chiral magnetization configurations
in systems consisting of alternating atomic layers of ferromagnetic and nonmagnetic …

We perform full-potential first-principles total energy calculations for several simple and
transition metals along three distinct phase transformation paths, ie the tetragonal, trigonal …

By a direct-liquid-evaporation chemical vapor deposition (DLE-CVD) method, we deposited
smooth low-resistance cobalt (Co) and cobalt nitride (CoxN) thin films with excellent …