Over the last several years, inorganic–organic hybrid perovskites have shown dramatic
achievements in photovoltaic performance and device stability. Despite the significant …

Vanadium dioxide (VO2) received tremendous interest lately due to its unique structural,
electronic, and optoelectronic properties. VO2 has been extensively used in electrochromic …

The fabrication methods of the microelectronics industry have been refined to produce ever
smaller devices, but will soon reach their fundamental limits. A promising alternative route to …

Nanoscience and nanotechnology are tremendously increasing fields of research that aim at
producing, characterizing and understanding nanoobjects and assemblies of nanoobjects …

Nanometre-scale semiconductor devices have been envisioned as next-generation
technologies with high integration and functionality. Quantum dots, or the so-called'artificial …

Boosting large-scale superconductor applications require nanostructured conductors with
artificial pinning centres immobilizing quantized vortices at high temperature and magnetic …

During the last 20 years interest in high-resolution x-ray diffractometry and reflectivity has
grown as a result of the development of the semiconductor industry and the increasing …

Instabilities in semiconductor heterostructure growth can be exploited for the self-organized
formation of nanostructures, allowing for carrier confinement in all three spatial dimensions …

Crystal growth far from thermodynamic equilibrium is nothing but homoepitaxy-thin film
growth on a crystalline substrate of the same material. Because of the absence of misfit …

Many recent advances in microelectronics would not have been possible without the
development of strain induced nanodevices and bandgap engineering, in particular …