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Magnetism of Ultrathin Metal Films
The last two chapters have described the growth and structure of epitaxial films. Here, the basic aspects of ultrathin-film magnetism and their... -
Growth of Ultrathin Metal Films
Driven by the requirement to tailor film properties for many technological applications, our understanding of the atomic processes involved in... -
Characterization of Floating Surface Layers of Lipids and Lipopolymers by Surface-Sensitive Scattering
Nanotechnology and molecular (bio-)engineering are making ever deepening inroads into everybody’s daily life. Physicochemical and biotechnological... -
Molecular Dynamics of Liquids in Confinement
Surface and confinement effects may have substantial effects on the molecular and collective dynamics of liquids. Within this chapter, we describe... -
Correlation Between Magnetism, Structure and Growth for Ultrathin Fe Films on Cu(100)
To obtain a comprehensive understanding of the correlation between the magnetism and structure of materials has been a research goal of scientists... -
Epitaxy-Stabilized Structures
Ultrathin films can be grown pseudomorphically on suitable substrates under certain growth conditions, even when the structure grown differs from the... -
Introduction
The ability of mankind to produce and process materials has been an important aspect of human development. This is reflected in the names of certain... -
NMR Studies of Cartilage – Dynamics, Diffusion, Degradation
An increasing number of people is suffering from rheumatic diseases, and, therefore, methods of early diagnosis of joint degeneration are urgently... -
Ultrafast Scanning Tunneling Microscopy: Principles and Applications
The growing field of nanotechnology requires special tools capable of probing ultrafast surface dynamics on atomic scales in order to unveil... -
Overview
A review on ferroelectric thin films used for nonvolatile random access memories is given. Particular attention is paid to fundamental... -
Capacitor-on-Metal/Via-Stacked-Plug (CMVP) Memory Cell Technologies and Application to a Nonvolatile SRAM
A capacitor-on-metal/via-stacked-plug (CMVP) memory cell was developed for the 0.25 micr meter CMOS logic embedded FeRAM. Using a 445 C MOCVD... -
Terahertz Radiation from Semiconductors
We provide a review of the different schemes for generating terahertz (THz) radiation using photoconductive emitters excited by femtosecond... -
Spontaneous Emission from Semiconductors After Ultrafast Pulse Excitation: Theory and Simulation
In this chapter, we review the recent progress in the theoretical description of ultrafast phenomena in the spontaneous emission of pulse-excited... -
Novel Si-Substituted Ferroelectric Films
In this chapter, properties of novel Si-substituted ferroelectric films are presented. The films are a solid solution between Bi... -
The Application of FeRAM to Future Information Technology World
The future information technology world needs a simple identification and secure information storage medium. The advanced smart card is a... -
A Chemical Approach Using Liquid Sources Tailored to Bi-Based Layer-Structured Perovskite Thin Films
The electrical properties of Bi-based layer-structured perovskite compounds strongly depend on their anisotropic crystal structure. Because of... -
High-Density Integration
Ferroelectric random access memory (FeRAM) has been pursued as a promising new memory due to its ideal memory properties, such as fast random... -
The Sputtering Technique
In this chapter, the formation of ferroelectric films using the sputtering technique is described. A main topic is a mass production system... -
Empirical Molecular Dynamics: Possibilities, Requirements, and Limitations
Classical molecular dynamics enables atomistic structure simulations of nanoscopic systems to be made. The method is extremely powerful in solving... -
Defect Theory: An Armchair History
This introductory chapter begins with a summary of the developments of the theory of defects in semiconductors in the past 50 years. This is followed...