Surface dynamics of glasses

H Tian, Q Xu, H Zhang, RD Priestley, B Zuo - Applied Physics Reviews, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Two challenging scientific disciplines, ie, the physics of glasses [Anderson, Science 267,
1615 (1995); Kennedy and Norman, Science 309, 75 (2005)] and interface chemistry …

Glass dynamics deep in the energy landscape

MD Ediger, M Gruebele, V Lubchenko… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
When a liquid is cooled, progress down the energy landscape is arrested near the glass
transition temperature T g. In principle, lower energy states can be accessed by waiting for …

Imaging and manipulating energy transfer among quantum dots at individual dot resolution

D Nguyen, HA Nguyen, JW Lyding, M Gruebele - ACS nano, 2017 - ACS Publications
Many processes of interest in quantum dots involve charge or energy transfer from one dot
to another. Energy transfer in films of quantum dots as well as between linked quantum dots …

Optoelectronic switching of a carbon nanotube chiral junction imaged with nanometer spatial resolution

L Nienhaus, S Wieghold, D Nguyen, JW Lyding… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Chiral junctions of carbon nanotubes have the potential of serving as optically or electrically
controllable switches. To investigate optoelectronic tuning of a chiral junction, we stamp …

Coherent Atomic-Scale Ripples on Metallic Glasses Patterned by Low-Energy Ion Irradiation for Large-Area Surface Structuring

P Luo, C Jaramillo, AM Wallum, Z Liu… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Periodic surface structures at the nanometer or micrometer scale have been achieved by
various methods, while atomic-scale surface structures over large areas are unavailable …

Photon activation of glassy dynamics: a mechanism for photoinduced fluidization, aging, and information storage in amorphous materials

V Lubchenko, PG Wolynes - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2020 - ACS Publications
We discuss the photon activation of structural relaxations in glassy melts and frozen glasses
containing molecules that can photoisomerize. The built-in stress following a photoinduced …

Imaging of carbon nanotube electronic states polarized by the field of an excited quantum dot

D Nguyen, A Wallum, HA Nguyen, NT Nguyen… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Efficient heat dissipation and large gate capacitance have made carbon nanotube field-
effect transistors (CNT FETs) devices of interest for over 20 years. The mechanism of CNT …

Composition-dependent metallic glass alloys correlate atomic mobility with collective glass surface dynamics

D Nguyen, ZG Zhu, B Pringle, J Lyding… - Physical Chemistry …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Glassy metallic alloys are richly tunable model systems for surface glassy dynamics. Here
we study the correlation between atomic mobility, and the hopping rate of surface regions …

Nanoscale Structure, Dynamics, and Aging Behavior of Metallic Glass Thin Films

JAJ Burgess, CMB Holt, EJ Luber, DC Fortin… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Scanning tunnelling microscopy observations resolve the structure and dynamics of metallic
glass Cu100− x Hf x films and demonstrate scanning tunnelling microscopy control of aging …

Surface glassy dynamics and single-molecule absorption of quantum dots detected by scanning tunneling microscopy

DA Nguyen - 2016 - ideals.illinois.edu
Using optically assisted scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), I investigated surface glassy
dynamics, absorption spectroscopy and intermolecular energy transfer between single …