Spin and angle resolved photoemission on non-magnetic low-dimensional systems

JH Dil - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
The electronic structure of non-magnetic low-dimensional materials can acquire a spin
structure due to the breaking of the inversion symmetry at the surface or interface. This so …

Extreme enhancement of superconductivity in epitaxial aluminum near the monolayer limit

WMJ van Weerdenburg, A Kamlapure, EH Fyhn… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
BCS theory has been widely successful at describing elemental bulk superconductors. Yet,
as the length scales of such superconductors approach the atomic limit, dimensionality as …

Signatures of anharmonic phonon transport in ultrahigh thermal conductance across atomically sharp metal/semiconductor interface

Y Xu, H Fan, Z Li, Y Zhou - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2023 - Elsevier
The scatterings among the heat carriers at metal/semiconductor heterojunctions are
important for the heat dissipation process in quantum information science systems. Phonon …

Tuning surface reactivity via electron quantum confinement

L Aballe, A Barinov, A Locatelli, S Heun, M Kiskinova - Physical review letters, 2004 - APS
The effect of electron quantum confinement on the surface reactivity of ultrathin metal films is
explored by comparing the initial oxidation rate of atomically flat magnesium films of different …

Quantum electronic stability and spectroscopy of ultrathin Pb films on

A Mans, JH Dil, A Ettema, HH Weitering - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
The growth of Pb on Si (111) 7× 7 has been studied with photoelectron spectroscopy. At low
temperature (110 K), Pb grows in a quasi layer-by-layer mode that allows for the direct …

Coherent electronic fringe structure in incommensurate silver-silicon quantum wells

NJ Speer, SJ Tang, T Miller, TC Chiang - Science, 2006 - science.org
Atomically uniform silver films grown on highly doped n-type Si (111) substrates show fine-
structured electronic fringes near the silicon valence band edge as observed by angle …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence of silicide at the ni/β-si3n4 (0001)/si (111) interface

P Rajak, R Ciancio, A Caretta, S Laterza… - Applied Surface …, 2023 - Elsevier
We present a study of a sub-nanometre interlayer of crystalline silicon nitride at the Ni/Si
interface. We performed transmission electron microscopy measurements complemented by …

Electron localization in metallic quantum wells: Pb versus In on

JH Dil, JW Kim, T Kampen, K Horn, A Ettema - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2006 - APS
Two-dimensional quantum well states in ultrathin metal films generally exhibit a dispersion
relation of sp-derived states that can be described through an effective mass of the …

Thickness-dependent oxygen chemisorption behaviors on (1 1 1) surfaces of two-dimensional FCC metals Al and Cu: First-principles study

H Yang, P Guan - Computational Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Oxygen chemisorption is one of the crucial factors to understand the performance of metal
materials under special service environments. Here, we investigate the thickness-dependent …

Spin polarization of quantum well states in Ag films induced by the Rashba effect at the surface

K He, T Hirahara, T Okuda, S Hasegawa, A Kakizaki… - Physical review …, 2008 - APS
The electronic structure of Ag (111) quantum well films covered with a (3× 3) R 30° Bi/Ag
surface ordered alloy, which shows a Rashba spin-split surface state, is investigated with …