Monte Carlo and kinetic Monte Carlo models for deposition processes: a review of recent works

N Cheimarios, D To, G Kokkoris, G Memos… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Monte Carlo (MC) and kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) models are widely used for studying the
physicochemical surface phenomena encountered in most deposition processes. This …

Femtosecond and picosecond laser fabrication for long-term superhydrophilic metal surfaces

RA Rajan, CV Ngo, J Yang, Y Liu, KS Rao… - Optics & Laser …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper reports the femtosecond (fs) laser and picosecond (ps) laser fabrications to
create superhydrophilic surfaces. Subsequently, investigations of the surface morphologies …

Light-directed growth of metal and semiconductor nanostructures

C Tan, C Qin, B Sadtler - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
External parameters such as temperature, pressure, and concentration are typically used to
control chemical transformations in molecules and materials. Many classes of inorganic …

Template-free synthesis of periodic three-dimensional PbSe nanostructures via photoelectrodeposition

AI Carim, KR Hamann, NA Batara… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Highly periodic, geometrically directed, anisotropic Se–Pb films have been synthesized at
room temperature from an isotropic aqueous solution without the use of physical templates …

Inclination of polarized illumination increases symmetry of structures grown via inorganic phototropism

MC Meier, NS Lewis, AI Carim - Materials Horizons, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Inclination of unpatterned, linearly polarized illumination in the plane of the electric field
oscillation effected increased directional feature alignment and decreased off-axis order in …

Light-driven, facet-selective transformation of cuprous oxide microcrystals to hollow copper nanoshells

C Qin, BM Campbell, M Shen, T Zhao… - Chemistry of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Photoexcitation can be used to control the composition and nanoscale morphology of
inorganic materials. Here we report the photoinduced transformation of faceted cuprous …

Profiling photoinduced carrier generation in semiconductor microwire arrays via photoelectrochemical metal deposition

M Dasog, AI Carim, S Yalamanchili, HA Atwater… - Nano Letters, 2016 - ACS Publications
Au was photoelectrochemically deposited onto cylindrical or tapered p-Si microwires on Si
substrates to profile the photoinduced charge-carrier generation in individual wires in a …

Morphological Expression of the Coherence and Relative Phase of Optical Inputs to the Photoelectrodeposition of Nanopatterned Se–Te Films

AI Carim, NA Batara, A Premkumar, R May… - Nano …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Highly anisotropic and ordered nanoscale lamellar morphologies can be spontaneously
generated over macroscopic areas, without the use of a photomask or any templating …

Plastic Morphological Response to Spectral Shifts during Inorganic Phototropic Growth

KR Hamann, MC Meier, NS Lewis, AI Carim - JACS Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
Plants exhibit phototropism in which growth is directed toward sunlight and demonstrate
morphological plasticity in response to changes in the spectral distribution of the incident …

Assessing Effects of Near-Field Synergistic Light Absorption on Ordered Inorganic Phototropic Growth

AI Carim, MC Meier, KM Kennedy… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We report herein that synergistic light absorption in the optical near-field enables nanoscale
self-organization during inorganic phototropic growth. Se–Te was grown electrochemically …