Nanoparticles, smaller than 100nm, have many properties which differ from the
corresponding bulk material thereby making them attractive for many new electronic, optical …

Photons have many advantages for vaporizing condensed systems, and laser vaporization
sources have a flexibility not available with other methods. These sources are applied to …

During experiments aimed at understanding the mechanisms by which long-chain carbon
molecules are formed in interstellar space and circumstellar shells1, graphite has been …

In the past 10 years or so, a new type of chemical entity has come under both experimental
and theo-retical examination: clusters of transition-metal atoms, without benefit of stabilizing …

Pulsed laser deposition (PLD) is a conceptually and experimentally simple yet highly
versatile tool for thin-film and multilayer research. Its advantages for the film growth of oxides …

Laser vaporization of a substrate within the throat of a pulsed nozzle is used to generate a
supersonic beam of carbon clusters. The neutral cluster beam is probed downstream by UV …

Carbon clusters are generated by laser desorption. Mass-selected beams are then pulse
injected into an ion chromatography (IC) device. This device temporally and spatially …

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) combine in a unique way high electrical conductivity, high
chemical stability and extremely high mechanical strength. These special properties of both …

The field of cluster research can trace its origins back to the mid-nineteenth century when
early studies of colloids, aerosols, and nucleation phenomena were reported. The field …

The laser vaporization cluster source has been used for the production of gas phase atomic
clusters and metal-molecular complexes for 30 years. Numerous experiments in the …