Journal•ISSN: 0218-625X
Surface Review and Letters
World Scientific
About: Surface Review and Letters is an academic journal published by World Scientific. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Thin film & Coating. It has an ISSN identifier of 0218-625X. Over the lifetime, 3698 publications have been published receiving 22769 citations.
Topics: Thin film, Coating, Materials science, Microstructure, Adsorption
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TL;DR: The only surface electron microscope which allows true characteristic XPEEM and structural characterization is the spectroscopic LEEM developed at the Technical University Clausthal in the early nineties as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: At present the only surface electron microscope which allows true characteristic XPEEM (photoemission electron microscopy using synchrotron radiation) and structural characterization is the spectroscopic LEEM developed at the Technical University Clausthal in the early nineties. This instrument has in the past been used mainly for LEEM studies of various surface and thin film phenomena, because it had very limited access to synchrotron radiation. Now the microscope is connected quasipermanently to the undulator beamline 6.2 at the storage ring ELETTRA, operating successfully since the end of 1996 under the name SPELEEM (Spectroscopic PhotoEmission and Low Energy Electron Microscope). The high brightness of the ELETTRA light source, together with an optimized instrument, results in a spatial resolution better than 25 nm and an energy resolution better than 0.5 eV in the XPEEM mode. The instrument can be used alternately for XPEEM, LEEM, LEED (low energy electron diffraction), MEM (mirror electron microscop...
219 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the major achievements from the field of materials synthesis within reverse micelles since the first such synthesis was performed in 1982 until today, to possibly open up new perspectives of viewing the typical problems that nowadays dominate the field, and to hopefully initiate the observation and generation of their actual solutions.
Abstract: Reverse micelles as nanosized aqueous droplets existing at certain compositions of water-in-oil microemulsions are widely used today in the synthesis of many types of nanoparticles. However, without a rich conceptual network that would correlate the properties and compositions of reverse micellar microemulsions to the properties of to-be-obtained particles, the design procedures in these cases usually rely on a trial-and-error approach. As like every other science, what is presently known is merely the tip of the iceberg compared to the uninvestigated vastness still lying below. The aim of this article is to present readers with most of the major achievements from the field of materials synthesis within reverse micelles since the first such synthesis was performed in 1982 until today, to possibly open up new perspectives of viewing the typical problems that nowadays dominate the field, and to hopefully initiate the observation and generation of their actual solutions. We intend to show that by refining th...
205 citations
TL;DR: A review of the principles underlying X-ray magnetic circular (XMCD) and linear (XMLD) dichroism spectromicroscopies consisting of polarized Xray absorption spectroscopy in conjunction with scanning or imaging microscopy is given in this article.
Abstract: A review is given of the principles underlying X-ray magnetic circular (XMCD) and linear (XMLD) dichroism spectromicroscopies consisting of polarized X-ray absorption spectroscopy in conjunction with scanning or imaging microscopy. The techniques are shown to have many useful and important capabilities for the study of complex magnetic materials. They oer elemental specicity, chemical specicity and variable depth sensitivity, among others. XMCD microscopy is best suited for the study of ferromagnets and ferrimagnets, and it allows a quantitative determination of the size and direction of spin and orbital moments. XMLD microscopy promises to become a powerful tool for the study of antiferromagnets which are dicult to study by conventional microscopy techniques.
195 citations
TL;DR: SiO2 thin films were deposited with atomic layer control using self-limiting surface reactions as discussed by the authors, which was achieved by separating the binary reaction SiCl4+2H2O→ SiO2+4HCl into two half-re...
Abstract: SiO2 thin films were deposited with atomic layer control using self-limiting surface reactions. The SiO2 growth was achieved by separating the binary reaction SiCl4+2H2O→ SiO2+4HCl into two half-re...
181 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present results on the growth of ultrathin films of gold on TiO2(110), as well as the morphology, interface formation, epitaxy, structure and electronic properties of Au on single crystal and planar films.
Abstract: We survey recent studies and present new data on the growth, interactions, structure and chemistry of gold deposited on TiO2(110) surfaces. The noble metal Au on TiO2(110) is a model system for weak interaction of a metal with an oxide substrate; it is also of interest because Au on TiO2 has unusually high activity as a catalyst for CO oxidation at room temperature. In this review, we present results on the growth of ultrathin films of Au on TiO2(110), as well as the morphology, interface formation, epitaxy, structure and electronic properties of Au on TiO2 single crystal and planar films. The results are compared to studies of Au on high-surface-area TiO2 catalysts in an attempt to bridge the gap between surface science experiments and the high pressure conditions of catalyst operation.
161 citations