Grain growth and the puzzle of its stagnation in thin films: The curious tale of a tail and an ear

K Barmak, E Eggeling, D Kinderlehrer, R Sharp… - Progress in Materials …, 2013 - Elsevier
The underlying cause of stagnation of grain growth in thin metallic films remains a puzzle.
Here it is re-visited by means of detailed comparison of experiments and simulations, using …

[PDF][PDF] Particle size characterization of nanoparticles–a practical approach

B Akbari, MP Tavandashti… - Iranian Journal of …, 2011 - scholar.archive.org
Most properties of nanoparticles are size-dependent. In fact, the novel properties of
nanoaprticles do not prevail until the size has been reduced to the nanometer scale. The …

Computational electromagnetics and the rational design of new dielectric heterostructures

C Brosseau, A Beroual - Progress in Materials Science, 2003 - Elsevier
Dielectric properties of heterogeneous materials for various condensed-matter systems have
been gaining world-wide attention over the past 50 or so years in the design (or …

Surface and grain-boundary scattering in nanometric Cu films

T Sun, B Yao, AP Warren, K Barmak, MF Toney… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
We report a quantitative analysis of both surface and grain-boundary scattering in Cu thin
films with independent variation in film thickness (27 to 158 nm) and grain size (35 to 425 …

Phase, grain structure, stress, and resistivity of sputter-deposited tungsten films

D Choi, B Wang, S Chung, X Liu, A Darbal… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
Sputter-deposited W films with nominal thicknesses between 5 and 180 nm were prepared
by varying the base pressure prior to film deposition and by including or not including …

Failure of semiclassical models to describe resistivity of nanometric, polycrystalline tungsten films

D Choi, X Liu, PK Schelling, KR Coffey… - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The impact of electron scattering at surfaces and grain boundaries in nanometric
polycrystalline tungsten (W) films was studied. A series of polycrystalline W films ranging in …

Dominant role of grain boundary scattering in the resistivity of nanometric Cu films

T Sun, B Yao, AP Warren, K Barmak, MF Toney… - Physical Review B …, 2009 - APS
The dominant role of grain boundary scattering in the low-temperature resistivity of both SiO
2 and Ta/SiO 2 encapsulated Cu thin films is demonstrated by the experimental variation …

Quantifying the dispersion of mixture microstructures

ZP Luo, JH Koo - Journal of microscopy, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
A general method to quantify the inclusion dispersion of mixture microstructures has been
developed. The dispersion quantity, D, is defined as the probability of inclusion particle free …

Nanosized zirconium porphyrinic metal–organic frameworks that catalyze the oxygen reduction reaction in acid

G Chen, MB Stevens, Y Liu, LA King, J Park… - Small …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Porphyrinic metal–organic frameworks (PMOFs) are very appealing electrocatalytic
materials, in part, due to their highly porous backbone, well‐defined and dispersed metal …

Annealing behavior of Cu and dilute Cu-alloy films: Precipitation, grain growth, and resistivity

K Barmak, A Gungor, C Cabral Jr… - Journal of applied …, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
The impact of 11 alloying elements, namely, Mg, Ti, In, Sn, Al, Ag, Co, Nb, and B, at two
nominal concentrations of 1 and 3 at.%, and Ir and W, at only a nominal concentration of 3 …