Plasma Enabled Conformal and Damage Free Encapsulation of Fragile Molecular Matter: from Surface‐Supported to On‐Device Nanostructures

Plasma Enabled Conformal and Damage Free Encapsulation of Fragile Molecular Matter: from Surface‐Supported to On‐Device Nanostructures

by | Nov 19, 2019 | Articles, Highlights

Author: Maria Alcaire, Francisco J. Aparicio, José Obrero, Carmen López‐Santos, Francisco J. Garcia‐Garcia, Juan R. Sánchez‐Valencia, Fabián Frutos, Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov, Ana Borrás, Angel Barranco.

Advanced Functional Materials 2019

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Damage‐free encapsulation of molecular structures with functional nanolayers is crucial to protect nanodevices from environmental exposure. With nanoscale electronic, optoelectronic, photonic, sensing, and other nanodevices based on atomically thin and fragile organic matter shrinking in size…

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Physically Unclonable Functions Based on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: A Scalable and Inexpensive Method toward Unique Identifiers

Physically Unclonable Functions Based on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: A Scalable and Inexpensive Method toward Unique Identifiers

by | Nov 17, 2019 | Articles, Highlights

Author: Enrique Burzurí, Daniel Granados, Emilio M. Pérez

ACS Appl. Nano Mater. (2019)

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A physically unclonable function (PUF) is a physical system that cannot be reproduced or predicted and therefore is a good basis on which to build security and anticounterfeiting applications. The unclonability of PUFs typically stems from the randomness induced…

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Liquid switchable radial polarization converters made of sculptured thin films

Liquid switchable radial polarization converters made of sculptured thin films

by | Nov 17, 2019 | Articles, Highlights

Author: ManuelOliva-Ramírez, Victor J.Rico, JorgeGil-Rostra, OriolArteaga, EnricBertran, RosalíaSerna, Agustín R.González-Elipe, Francisco Yubero

Applied Surface Science (2019)

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A radial polarization converter is a super-structured optical retarder that converts a conventional linearly polarized light beam into a structured beam with radial or azimuthal polarization. We present a new type of these sophisticated optical elements, which is made of porous nanostructured…

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Prevalence of non-aromatic carbonaceous molecules in the inner regions of circumstellar envelopes

Prevalence of non-aromatic carbonaceous molecules in the inner regions of circumstellar envelopes

by | Nov 17, 2019 | Articles, Highlights

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Lidia Martínez, Gonzalo Santoro, Pablo Merino, Mario Accolla, Koen Lauwaet, Jesús Sobrado, Hassan Sabbah, Ramón J. Pelaez, Victor J. Herrero, Isabel Tanarro, Marcelino Agúndez, Alberto Martín-Jimenez, Roberto Otero, Gary J. Ellis, Christine Joblin, José Cernicharo and José A. Martín-Gago 

Nature Astronomy (2019)

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Evolved stars are foundries of chemical complexity, gas and dust that provide the building blocks of planets and life, and dust nucleation first occurs in their photosphere. The circumstellar regions enveloping these stars, despite their importance, remain hidden to many observations, and…

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Coexistence of Elastic Modulations in the Charge Density Wave State of 2H-NbSe2

Coexistence of Elastic Modulations in the Charge Density Wave State of 2H-NbSe2

by | Oct 9, 2019 | Highlights

Author: Guster B , Rubio-Verdú C, Robles R , Zaldívar J, Dreher P, Pruneda M, Silva-Guillén JA, Choi DJ, Pascual JI, Ugeda MM, Ordejón P, and Canadell E.

Nano Letters (ASAP). 2019

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When a material undergoes a phenomenon called charge density wave both its atomic lattice and electronic density distorts coherently below a certain temperature. In this work, we demonstrate that these distortions may appear…

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New technique to manufacture antidot arrays in oxides

New technique to manufacture antidot arrays in oxides

by | Jul 16, 2018 | Articles, Highlights

Author: Juan L. Palma, Alejandro Pereira, Raquel Álvaro, José Miguel García-Martín and Juan Escrig

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018

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Magnetic thin films with periodic arrays of holes, so-called antidot arrays, can be used in several applications such as magnetoplasmonics, sensors, magnonics and spintronic devices. With suitable dimensions, the holes allow for engineering the magnetic properties. In this work, the new technique called AFIR (from ALD + FIB + reduction) to manufacture antidot arrays in magnetic oxides is presented, and as a proof of concept, magnetite antidots are studied.

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