Douglas H. Lowndes

TL;DR: In this paper, the electrical conductivity of ultrathin cubic yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) thin films was investigated and a nanoscale effect that results in exceptionally high ionic conductivity at moderate temperatures was detected in films less than 60 nm thick.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new investigation of how different final microstructures as microcolumns or microcones joined by walls nucleate and develop was presented, and the changes in silicon surface morphology were systematically determined and compared as the number of pulsed KrF (248 nm) laser shots was increased from 25 to several thousand in both air and SF6.

TL;DR: In this paper, a nano-engineered membrane for controlling material transport (e.g., molecular transport) is described, which includes a substrate, a cover defining a material transport channel between the substrate and the cover, and a plurality of fibers positioned in the channel and connected to and extending away from a surface of the substrate.

TL;DR: In this paper, an ion probe was used to study changes in the bonding and optical properties of amorphous carbon films as a function of the kinetic energy of ablated C ions.

TL;DR: In this article, the initial growth stages as a function of time for both regimes were studied and a model of the growth mode transition was proposed. But the model was not applied to the case of carbon nanofibers.