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Bannenberg, L.J. (author), Nugroho, Ferry Anggoro Ardy (author), Schreuders, H. (author), Norder, B. (author), Trinh, Thuy-Trang (author), Steinke, N.J. (author), van Well, A.A. (author), Langhammer, Christoph (author), Dam, B. (author)Nanostructured metal hydrides are able to efficiently detect hydrogen in optical sensors. In the literature, two nanostructured systems based on metal hydrides have been proposed for this purpose each with its own detection principle: continuous sub-100 nm thin films read out via optical reflectance/transmittance changes and nanoparticle arrays...journal article 2019
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Pateras, Anastasios (author), Carnis, Jérôme (author), Mukhopadhyay, U. (author), Richard, Marie Ingrid (author), Leake, Steven J. (author), Schülli, Tobias U. (author), Reichl, Christian (author), Wegscheider, Werner (author), Dehollain Lorenzana, J.P. (author), Vandersypen, L.M.K. (author), Evans, Paul G. (author)Increasing the number of quantum bits while preserving precise control of their quantum electronic properties is a significant challenge in materials design for the development of semiconductor quantum computing devices. Semiconductor heterostructures can host multiple quantum dots that are electrostatically defined by voltages applied to an...journal article 2019
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Agarwal, Girish (author), Allen, Roland E. (author), Bezděková, Iva (author), Boyd, Robert W. (author), Chen, Goong (author), Hanson, R. (author), Hawthorne, Dean L. (author), Hemmer, Philip (author), Kim, Moochan B. (author), Kocharovskaya, Olga (author), Lee, D. (author), Lidström, Sebastian K. (author), Lidström, Suzy (author), Losert, Harald (author), Maier, Helmut (author), Neuberger, John W. (author), Padgett, Miles J. (author), Raizen, Mark (author), Rajendran, Surjeet (author), Rasel, Ernst (author), Schleich, Wolfgang P. (author), Scully, Marlan O. (author), Shchedrin, Gavriil (author), Shvets, Gennady (author), Sokolov, Alexei (author), Svidzinsky, Anatoly (author), Walsworth, Ronald L. (author), Weiss, Rainer (author), Wilczek, Frank (author), Willner, Alan E. (author), Yablonovich, Eli (author), Zheludev, Nikolay (author)The Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE) has been a seminal force in quantum optics and related areas since 1971. It is rather mind-boggling to recognize how the concepts presented at these conferences have transformed scientific understanding and human society. In January 2017, the participants of PQE were asked to...journal article 2018
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Harzheim, Achim (author), Spiece, Jean (author), Evangeli, Charalambos (author), McCann, Edward (author), Falko, Vladimir (author), Sheng, Yuewen (author), Warner, Jamie H. (author), Briggs, G. Andrew D. (author), Mol, Jan A. (author), Gehring, P. (author), Kolosov, Oleg V. (author)The influence of nanostructuring and quantum confinement on the thermoelectric properties of materials has been extensively studied. While this has made possible multiple breakthroughs in the achievable figure of merit, classical confinement, and its effect on the local Seebeck coefficient has mostly been neglected, as has the Peltier effect...journal article 2018
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Ribeiro, Ana P.C. (author), Martins, Luísa M.D.R.S. (author), Carabineiro, Sónia A.C. (author), Buijnsters, J.G. (author), Figueiredo, José L. (author), Pombeiro, Armando J.L. (author)The C-scorpionate iron(II) complex [FeCl<sub>2</sub>(Tpm)] [Tpm=κ<sup>3</sup>-HC(C<sub>3</sub>H<sub>3</sub>N<sub>2</sub>)<sub>3</sub>] (1) was immobilized on five different nanostructured carbon materials (nanodiamonds, graphene nanoplatelets, graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide, and nanohorns) to produce active, selective, and recyclable...journal article 2018
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van Assenbergh, S.P. (author), Meinders, Erwin (author), Geraedts, Jo M.P. (author), Dodou, D. (author)When designing a new nanostructure or microstructure, one can follow a processing-based manufacturing pathway, in which the structure properties are defined based on the processing capabilities of the fabrication method at hand. Alternatively, a performance-based pathway can be followed, where the envisioned performance is first defined, and...review 2018
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Wurst, Kai M. (author), Bender, Markus (author), Lauth, J.D. (author), Maiti, Sonam (author), Chassé, Thomas (author), Meixner, Alfred (author), Siebbeles, L.D.A. (author), Bunz, Uwe H.F. (author), Braun, Kai (author), Scheele, Marcus (author)An optical switch with two distinct resonances is formed by combining PbS nanocrystals and the conductive polymer poly[sodium 2-(2-ethynyl-4-methoxyphenoxy)acetate] (PAE) into a hybrid thin film. Infrared excitation of the nanocrystals invokes charge transfer and consecutive polaron formation in the PAE, which activates the switch for excited...journal article 2018
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Kabiri, Y. (author), Ananth, A.N. (author), van der Torre, J. (author), Katan, A.J. (author), Hong, Jin Yong (author), Malladi, S.R.K. (author), Kong, Jing (author), Zandbergen, H.W. (author), Dekker, C. (author)While graphene may appear to be the ultimate support membrane for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) imaging of DNA nanostructures, very little is known if it poses an advantage over conventional carbon supports in terms of resolution and contrast. Microscopic investigations are carried out on DNA origami nanoplates that are supported...journal article 2017
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Melskens, J. (author), Eijt, S.W.H. (author), Schouten, M. (author), Vullers, A.S. (author), Mannheim, Awital (author), Schut, H. (author), Macco, Bart (author), Zeman, M. (author), Smets, A.H.M. (author)The nanostructure of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) is studied by means of doppler broadening positron annihilation spectroscopy (DB-PAS) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. The evolution of open volume deficiencies is monitored during annealing, demonstrating that small vacancies and other small vacancy clusters that...journal article 2017
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Abrahami, S.T. (author), de Kok, John M.M. (author), Gudla, Visweswara C. (author), Ambat, Rajan (author), Terryn, H.A. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author)For more than six decades, chromic acid anodizing has been the main step in the surface treatment of aluminum for adhesively bonded aircraft structures. Soon this process, known for producing a readily adherent oxide with an excellent corrosion resistance, will be banned by strict international environmental and health regulations. Replacing...journal article 2017
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Marino, Emanuele (author), Kodger, Thomas E. (author), Crisp, R.W. (author), Timmerman, Dolf (author), MacArthur, Katherine E. (author), Heggen, Marc (author), Schall, Peter (author)Solar devices based on semiconductor nanoparticles require the use of conductive ligands; however, replacing the native, insulating ligands with conductive metal chalcogenide complexes introduces structural defects within the crystalline nanostructure that act as traps for charge carriers. We utilized atomically thin semiconductor...journal article 2017
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Piumetti, Marco (author), van der Linden, B. (author), Makkee, M. (author), Miceli, Paolo (author), Fino, Debora (author), Russo, Nunzio (author), Bensaid, Samir (author)Ceria-based catalysts with different topological and textural properties have been prepared to study the role of the soot-catalyst contact on the soot oxidation reaction. The physico-chemical features of the catalysts have been investigated by means of complementary techniques, such as powder XRD, N<sub>2</sub> physisorption at -196 °C,...journal article 2016
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Moerland, R.J. (author), Weppelman, I.G.C. (author), Garming, M.W.H. (author), Kruit, P. (author), Hoogenboom, J.P. (author)We show cathodoluminescence-based time-resolved electron beam spectroscopy in order to directly probe the spontaneous emission decay rate that is modified by the local density of states in a nanoscale environment. In contrast to dedicated laser-triggered electron-microscopy setups, we use commercial hardware in a standard SEM, which allows us to...journal article 2016
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Shen, K. (author)Nanostructured materials are featured by providing a variety of favourable electrical properties, as the reduced ion and electron transport paths enable significant enhancement on (de)intercalation rates and hence high power. For TiO2 anatase, nano-sizing results in a curved open cell voltage profile with a much shorter plateau region in...doctoral thesis 2014
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Pfeiffer, T.V. (author)Nanostructuring of functional materials is an essential part in the design of energy related devices – but the industrial tools we have to make these materials are lacking. This dissertation explores the green, flexible, and scalable spark discharge process for the fabrication of complex nanostructured materials, and the application of said...doctoral thesis 2014
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Narváez, A.C. (author)Cathodoluminescence (CL), the excitation of light by an electron beam, has gained attention as an analysis tool for investigating the optical response of a structure, at a resolution that approaches that in electron microscopy, in the nanometer range. However, the application possibilities are limited because the use of transparent substrates,...doctoral thesis 2014
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Scorticati, D. (author), Illiberi, A. (author), Bor, T. (author), Eijt, S.W.H. (author), Schut, H. (author), Römer, G.R.B.E. (author), De Lange, D.F. (author), Huis in 't Veld, A.J. (author)Post-deposition annealing by ultra-short laser pulses can modify the optical properties of SnO2 thin films by means of thermal processing. Industrial grade SnO2 films exhibited improved optical properties after picosecond laser irradiation, at the expense of a slightly increased sheet resistance [Proc. SPIE 8826, 88260I (2013)]. The figure of...journal article 2014
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Hagman, H. (author), Bäcke, O. (author), Kiskis, J. (author), Svedberg, F. (author), Jonsson, M.P. (author), Höök, F. (author), Enejder, A. (author)Nonlinear plasmonics opens up for wavelength conversion, reduced interaction/emission volumes, and nonlinear enhancement effects at the nanoscale with many compelling nanophotonic applications foreseen. We investigate nonlinear plasmonic responses of nanoholes in thin gold films by exciting the holes individually with tightly focused laser beams...journal article 2014
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Garcia-Tamayo, E. (author)The remarkable physicist Richard P. Feynman once said, more than fifty years ago: ”the principles of physics, as far as I can see, do not speak against the possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom. It is not an attempt to violate any laws; it is something, in principle, that can be done; but in practice, it has not been done because we are...doctoral thesis 2014
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Hermosa, N. (author), Rosales-Guzman, C. (author), Pereira, S.F. (author), Torres, J.P. (author)We demonstrate an optical scheme for measuring the thickness of thin nanolayers with the use of light beam’s spatial modes. The novelty in our scheme is the projection of the beam reflected by the sample onto a properly tailored spatial mode. In the experiment described below, we are able to measure a step height smaller than 10 nm, i.e., one...journal article 2014