Modern computer microprocessor chips are marvels of engineering complexity. For the
current 45 nm technology node, there may be nearly a billion transistors on a chip barely 1 …

Amorphous and nanocrystalline carbon films possess special chemical and physical
properties such as high chemical inertness, diamond-like properties, and favorable …

Organic piezoelectric nanogenerators (PENGs) are attractive in harvesting mechanical
energy for various self‐powering systems. However, their practical applications are severely …

Recent advances in high-order harmonic generation have made it possible to use a tabletop-
scale setup to produce spatially and temporally coherent beams of light with bandwidth …

Low‐dielectric‐constant materials such as silicon dioxide serving as interconnect insulators
in current integrated circuit face a great challenge due to their relatively high dielectric …

Magnetron-sputtered carbon nitride thin films with different structures and compositions were
analyzed by X-ray and ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS and UPS), near-edge X …

Mesoporous alumina has been widely used in catalysis, adsorption, and drug delivery, in
which the specific application of mesoporous alumina depends on the functionalization of its …

A Sr-based metal–organic framework {[Sr2 (1, 3-bdc) 2 (H2O) 2]· H2O} n (1) was
synthesized under hydrothermal conditions by the reaction of Sr (NO3) 2 and 1, 3-bis (4, 5 …

4H silicon carbide (SiC) substrates were dry etched in an inductively coupled plasma (ICP)
system, using SF 6/O 2 gas mixtures. Etch rate and etch mechanisms have been …

Atomic-scale smooth surfaces of single-crystal silicon (Si) are indispensable for cutting-edge
applications, such as semiconductor chips, quantum devices, and X-ray optics. Here, we …