Super atomic clusters: design rules and potential for building blocks of materials

P Jena, Q Sun - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Atomic clusters, consisting of a few to a few thousand atoms, have emerged over the past 40
years as the ultimate nanoparticles, whose structure and properties can be controlled one …

Manipulation and control of molecular beams

SYT van de Meerakker, HL Bethlem… - Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The motion of neutral molecules in a beam can be manipulated and controlled with
inhomogeneous electric and magnetic fields. Static fields can be used to deflect or focus …

Evolution of the structural, energetic, and electronic properties of the 3d, 4d, and 5d transition-metal clusters (30 TM n systems for n= 2–15): a density functional theory …

AS Chaves, MJ Piotrowski, JLF Da Silva - Physical chemistry chemical …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Subnanometric transition-metal (TM) clusters have attracted great attention due to their
unexpected physical and chemical properties, leastwise compared to their bulk …

Metallic supercurrent field-effect transistor

G De Simoni, F Paolucci, P Solinas, E Strambini… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
In their original formulation of superconductivity, the London brothers predicted the
exponential suppression of an electrostatic field inside a superconductor over the so-called …

Rate estimates for collisions of ionic clusters with neutral reactant molecules

G Kummerlöwe, MK Beyer - International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 2005 - Elsevier
Measured reaction rate constants of ionic clusters often exceed the collision rate calculated
with the widely used Average Dipole Orientation (ADO) theory. Accurate trajectory …

Magnetic moments and adiabatic magnetization of free cobalt clusters

X Xu, S Yin, R Moro, WA de Heer - Physical review letters, 2005 - APS
Magnetizations and magnetic moments of free cobalt clusters Co N (12< N< 200) in a
cryogenic (25 K≤ T≤ 100 K) molecular beam were determined from Stern-Gerlach …

Quantum-state selection, alignment, and orientation of large molecules using static electric and laser fields

F Filsinger, J Küpper, G Meijer, L Holmegaard… - The Journal of …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
Supersonic beams of polar molecules are deflected using inhomogeneous electric fields.
The quantum-state selectivity of the deflection is used to spatially separate molecules …

Structure characterization of metal oxide clusters by vibrational spectroscopy: possibilities and prospects

KR Asmis - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
This article summarizes the methodological progress that has been made in the vibrational
spectroscopy of isolated polynuclear metal oxide clusters, with particular emphasis on free …

Nanosize ferroelectric oxides–tracking down the superparaelectric limit

A Rüdiger, T Schneller, A Roelofs, S Tiedke, T Schmitz… - Applied Physics A, 2005 - Springer
Free ferroelectric nanoparticles in the order of 10 nm undergo a size driven phase transition
into a paraelectric phase. However, in all applications, especially in ferroelectric random …

Field-effect control of metallic superconducting systems

F Paolucci, G De Simoni, P Solinas, E Strambini… - AVS Quantum …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Static electric fields have a negligible influence on the electric and transport properties of a
metal because of the screening effect. This belief was extended to conventional metallic …