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Investigation of Electronic and Atomic Structure and Transport Properties of Black Phosphorus Single Crystals
The electronic and atomic structure and transport properties of black phosphorus single crystals prepared by high-pressure and gas-transport methods were studied by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and scannin...
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Features of the Electronic and Local Atomic Structures of Erbium Complexes of Tetraphenylporphyrin: Analysis of the Data of Photoelectron Spectroscopy and X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy
The features of the electronic and local atomic structure of erbium metalloporphyrins Er(acac)TPPBr8 and Er(acac)TPP and precursor tetraphenylporphyrins TPP and TPPBr8 are studied by X‑ray photoelectron spectrosc...
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Open AccessNanodomain structure of single crystalline nickel oxide
In this work we present a comprehensive study of the domain structure of a nickel oxide single crystal grown by floating zone melting and suggest a correlation between point defects and the observed domain str...
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Laser Modification of Titanium Film in Optical Waveguides on Lithium Niobate Substrates
It is shown that laser modification of a nanometer titanium film can be used for precise control of the loss level in optical waveguides on lithium niobate substrates. Theoretical estimates of the change in li...
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A Measuring Stand for Single-Photon Detectors Based on NbN Nanostructures
A measuring complex for recording events by single-photon superconducting detectors based on NbN structures is presented; low-noise high-frequency HEMT transistors are used as cryogenic amplifiers in it.
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Memory Effect in the Charge Transport in Strongly Disordered Antimony Films
We study conductivity of strongly disordered amorphous antimony films under high bias voltages. We observe non-linear current-voltage characteristic, where the conductivity value at zero bias is one of two dis...
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Nonuniform Quantum-Confined States and Visualization of Hidden Defects in Pb(111) Films
The spatial dependence of the differential conductivity of ultrathin Pb films deposited on the Si(111)7 × 7 surface has been studied by low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy. Pb films ...
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Ab Initio Modeling of the Local Violation of a Peierls Transition at the Sb(111) Surface
The crystal structure of the Sb(111) surface is studied within the density functional theory. It is shown that a defect near-surface region with a thickness of 6–8 atomic layers, which is similar to a topologi...
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Electronic structure and thermal stability of rare earth metalloporphyrins based on ytterbium
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Resistive switchings and diode properties of heterostructures based on epitaxial superconducting Nd2–x Ce x CuO4–y films
Reversible and reliable bistable resistive switchings are observed in planar-type Nd2–x Ce x CuO4–y /Nd2–x ...
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Surface origin of quasi-2D Shubnikov–de Haas oscillations in Bi2Te2Se
Transport measurements at liquid helium temperatures were done on a number of Bi2Te2Se samples with thicknesses ranging from 30 to 200 μm in order to detect surface states. In each sample we observed Shubnikov–de...
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The fabrication of ordered low-dimensional structures on clean and metal-atom-decorated stepped Si(557) and Si(556) surfaces is discussed. The formation conditions and atomic structure of regular step systems ...
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Rotation dynamics of C60 molecules in a monolayer fullerene film on the WO2/W(110) surface near the rotational phase transition
The rotation dynamics of C60 molecules in monolayer fullerene films grown on the WO2/W(110) surface is studied by scanning tunneling microscopy. The formation of molecule clusters, which have a high libron vibrat...
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The spatial distribution of the magnetic field around the tip of a magnetic cantilever coated with a cobalt film 50 nm thick is investigated using an FePt extraordinary Hall effect sensor. The magnetic field’s...
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Focusing of electrons by a transverse magnetic field
The foundations of the focusing of electrons by a transverse magnetic field proposed by V.S. Tsoi in 1974 have been reviewed. The kinetics of electrons in condensed media and interactions of conduction electro...
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Open AccessFabrication of [001]-oriented tungsten tips for high resolution scanning tunneling microscopy
The structure of the [001]-oriented single crystalline tungsten probes sharpened in ultra-high vacuum using electron beam heating and ion sputtering has been studied using scanning and transmission electron mi...
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Structural state and mechanical properties of nanocrystalline carbon films obtained by methane pyrolysis in electric field
We describe a method of carbon film synthesis on single-crystalline silicon substrate, which is based on methane pyrolysis in electric field. The calculated values of pressures and temperatures developed durin...
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Application of single crystalline tungsten for fabrication of high resolution STM probes with controlled structure
The possibility to fabricate scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) probes with controlled electronic structure using single crystalline tungsten tips is discussed. High resolution power of oriented single crysta...
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Electrical properties of Pd-contacted single-walled carbon nanotubes: a scanning probe microscopy study
Pd is widely used in producing electrodes to single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT). However up to now its ability to form ohmic contacts to SWNTs was not employed in scanning probe microscopy (SPM). Here we pr...
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Selective growth of single-wall carbon nanotubes and the fabrication of devices on their basis
Single-wall carbon nanotubes were synthesized on specified parts of oxidized silicon substrates by single acetylene burst CVD and studied with high-resolution scanning electron and scanning probe micro-scopes....
