▪ Abstract Polycrystalline films have wide variety of applications in which their grain
structures affect their performance and reliability. Thin film growth techniques and growth …

Soap bubbles show up in kitchens, science museums, and popular books (eg, Isenberg,
1978). There has long been a tradition of drawing analogies between soap films and …

Controlling the properties of semiconductor/metal interfaces is a powerful method for
designing functionality and improving the performance of electrical devices. Recently …

Additive manufacturing (AM) processes produce unique microstructures compared with
other manufacturing processes because of the large thermal gradient, high solidification rate …

The mechanical properties of polycrystalline thin films with thickness of 1 μm or less depend
strongly on the grain geometry, the grain size, and the way in which the crystallographic …

Epitaxial thin films of inorganic single crystals can be grown on single-crystal substrates with
a variety of different solution chemistries. This review emphasizes chemical solution …

Nanocomposite of hard (BaFe12O19) and soft ferrite (Ni0. 8Zn0. 2Fe2O4) are prepared by
the mixing of the individual ferrite components at appropriate ratio and subsequent heat …

Platinum ditelluride (PtTe2) is an emerging semimetallic two-dimensional (2D) transition-
metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) crystal with intriguing band structures and unusual …

Hybrid semiconductor–superconductor nanowires constitute a pervasive platform for
studying gate-tunable superconductivity and the emergence of topological behavior. Their …

Abnormal (100) grain growth has been characterized in predominantly (111)‐textured Cu
thin films as a function of deposition temperature, annealing temperature and the presence …