Research
Simultaneous detection of positive and negative secondary ions
Richard J. Chater1, a), Alan J. Smith2 and Graham Cooke2 1 Department of Materials, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London SW7...
Electron attachment to a model peptide, N-methylformamide
Significance: Dissociative electron attachment (DEA) is an electron-induced fragmentation process, occurring at low energies (<15 eV), that...
Reactions of ethanol on Ru(0001)
Surface reactions on metallic surfaces are important for applications as catalysis, fuel cells and capping layers for optics in extreme ultraviolet...
Challenges and prospects for developing CdS/CdTe substrate solar cells on Mo foils
Thin-film CdTe solar cells boast lab-scale efficiencies above 20% when designed in the ‘superstrate configuration’ whereby the transparent front...
Chasing Stardust
The material density is remarkably variable in the space between the stars (the interstellar medium or ISM) with the densest regions consistent with...
Differential Electrochemical Mass Spectrometry (DEMS)
Hiden Analytical DEMS Cell Key Features Differential Electrochemical Mass Spectrometry (DEMS) is an analytical technique that combines...
Time resolved Langmuir probe diagnostics for ECR plasma research
Transient effects in pulsed electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) plasmas are of high interest for applications, e.g. particle accelerators and plasma...
Nanoparticle decoration of carbon nanotubes by sputtering
Nanoparticle-decorated carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are effective chemical and biological sensors, surfaces for heterogeneous catalysis,...
CFx films synthesized by HIPIMS sputtering of carbon
The synthesis of amorphous CFx thin films by reactive high power impulse magnetron sputtering (rHiPIMS) was demonstrated in tetrafluoromethane and...