Several scientific issues concerning the latest generation read heads for magnetic storage
devices, based on CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) are known to be …

Advances in instrumentation regarding 3rd generation synchrotron light sources and
electron spectrometers has enabled the field of high kinetic energy photoelectron …

We present a brief overview of recent theoretical studies of the core-level binding energy
shift (CLS) in solid metallic materials. The focus is on first principles calculations using the …

To address the amount of disorder and interface diffusion induced by annealing, all-Heusler
multilayer structures, consisting of ferromagnetic Co 2 MnGe and nonmagnetic Rh 2 CuSn …

Interfaces of Ni/Cu multilayers were studied by atom probe tomography. To this aim,
specimens with sharp or artificially smeared interfaces were prepared and investigated …

We report on investigations of the electronic structure and magnetic properties of ZnO doped
with 15 at.% Co and postgrowth annealed at temperatures ranging between 250 and 800° …

Using hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy with variable photon energy (2–8 keV), we
address the distribution of charge carriers in the prototypical LaAlO 3 (LAO) and SrTiO 3 …

This article describes the determination of the internal structure of heterogeneous
nanoparticle systems including inverted core–shell (CdS core and CdSe shell) and alloyed …

The chemistry and intermixing at buried interfaces in sputter deposited ZnO/Ti/ZnO thin
layers were studied by hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The long mean free path of …

Vacancy-mediated interdiffusion in coherent Mo/V and Cu/Ni multilayers is simulated to
evaluate the effects of coherency stress and vacancy sources/sinks on interface sharpening …