Nanoscience and nanotechnology are tremendously increasing fields of research that aim at
producing, characterizing and understanding nanoobjects and assemblies of nanoobjects …

This chapter presents selected ideas concerning complexes that are formed either by
oppositely charged polyelectrolytes or by polyelectrolytes and surfactants of opposite …

Organic thin-film transistors are attracting a great deal of attention due to the relatively high
field-effect mobility in several organic materials. In these organic semiconductors, however …

During the last 20 years interest in high-resolution x-ray diffractometry and reflectivity has
grown as a result of the development of the semiconductor industry and the increasing …

Crystal growth far from thermodynamic equilibrium is nothing but homoepitaxy-thin film
growth on a crystalline substrate of the same material. Because of the absence of misfit …

The grazing incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS) from structures within a thin
film on a substrate is generally a superposition of the two scatterings generated by the two X …

Cottam and Tilley provide an introduction to the properties of wave-like excitations
associated with surfaces and interfaces. The emphasis is on acoustic, optic and magnetic …

This book presents a physical approach to the diffraction phenomenon and its applications
in materials science. An historical background to the discovery of X-ray diffraction is first …

Conspectus For almost a decade now, lead halide perovskite nanocrystals have been the
subject of a steadily growing number of publications, most of them regarding CsPbBr3 …

Monodisperse 4 nm FePt magnetic nanoparticles were synthesized by superhydride
reduction of FeCl2 and Pt (acac) 2 at high temperature, and thin assemblies of FePt …