Atom probe tomography

B Gault, A Chiaramonti, O Cojocaru-Mirédin… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Atom probe tomography (APT) provides three-dimensional compositional mapping with sub-
nanometre resolution. The sensitivity of APT is in the range of parts per million for all …

Atomic-scale patterning of arsenic in silicon by scanning tunneling microscopy

TJZ Stock, O Warschkow, PC Constantinou, J Li… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Over the past two decades, prototype devices for future classical and quantum computing
technologies have been fabricated by using scanning tunneling microscopy and hydrogen …

Momentum‐Space Imaging of Ultra‐Thin Electron Liquids in δ‐Doped Silicon

P Constantinou, TJZ Stock, E Crane, A Kölker… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Two‐dimensional dopant layers (δ‐layers) in semiconductors provide the high‐mobility
electron liquids (2DELs) needed for nanoscale quantum‐electronic devices. Key parameters …

Evidence of Superparamagnetic Co Clusters in Pulsed Laser Deposition-Grown Zn0.9Co0.1O Thin Films Using Atom Probe Tomography

R Lardé, E Talbot, P Pareige, H Bieber… - Journal of the …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Nanosized Co clusters (of about 3 nm size) were unambiguously identified in Co-doped ZnO
thin films by atom probe tomography. These clusters are directly correlated to the …

Nano-composite MOx materials for NVMs

C Bonafos, L Khomenkhova, F Gourbilleau… - Metal Oxides for Non …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this chapter, we will present a digest of the main materials science aspects of the
controlled fabrication of 2D arrays of semiconducting (Si, Ge) nanocrystals (NCs) in metal …

Stability, bonding, and electronic properties of silicon and germanium arsenides

P Wu, M Huang - physica status solidi (b), 2016 - Wiley Online Library
First‐principles calculations were carried out to study the stability, structural, and electronic
properties of compounds of silicon arsenides (SiAs and SiAs2) and germanium arsenides …

Analyses of three-dimensional atomic arrangements of impurities doped in Si relating to electrical activity by spectro-photoelectron holography

K Tsutsui, Y Morikawa - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Electrical activation of dopants in semiconductors with high concentration is a significant
requirement in device technology. However, the maximum concentration is actually limited …

Atom probe sample preparation

I Blum, F Cuvilly, W Lefebvre-Ulrikson - Atom Probe Tomography, 2016 - Elsevier
The drastic improvement of micromanipulation, microwelding, and ion beam milling in
scanning electron microscopy (SEM) has accompanied the development of atom probe …

Self-modulated field electron emitter: Gated device of integrated Si tip-on-nano-channel

Z Huang, Y Huang, Z Pan, J She, S Deng… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We report the featured gated field electron emission devices of Si nano-tips with individually
integrated Si nano-channels and the interpretation of the related physics. A rational …

Nucleation pathway in coherent precipitation

T Philippe, D Blavette - Philosophical Magazine, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The non-classical nucleation pathway of coherent precipitates has been computed through
minimisation of the nucleation barrier in the composition (c)–size (R) space to predict the …